Wąglik

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Wąglik
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Wąglik (Poland)
Wąglik
Wąglik
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 37 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '27 "  N , 21 ° 45' 41"  E
Residents : 195 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Snopki / DK 58 ↔ Jabłoń
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wąglik ( German  Wonglik , 1938-1945 Balzershausen ) is a village and Schulzenamt in the urban and rural community of Pisz ( Johannisburg ) in the Pisz powiat in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Poland . Wąglik-Kolonia is a settlement near Wąglik.

Geographical location

The village of Wąglik is located on the eastern edge of the Puszcza Piska (Johannisburger Heide) northeast of the Jezioro Brzozolasek ( Falcon Lake ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Pisz is three kilometers to the east.

Wąglik-Kolonia ( (location) ) is about 700 meters north of the village on the side road coming from Snopki (Snopken / Wartendorf) .

history

The village, called Wonglick after 1785 and Wonglik until 1938 , was founded in 1511 as the estate of a poacher with five hooves under Köllmischer law . Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Snopken ( 1938-1945 Wait village incorporated), which - renamed "District Wait village" in 1938 - the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 and 1933 Wonglik had a constant 143 inhabitants. On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 the village was foreign-sounding place names in "Balzershausen" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The number of inhabitants in 1939 was 149.

When southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Wonglik resp. Balzershausen affected. The village was given the Polish form of the name "Wąglik". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt and as such a place in the network of the city and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the powiat Piski, until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 the village had 195 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Wonglik resp. Balzershausen parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today the village of Wąglik and Wąglik-Kolonia belong to the Catholic parish in Pisz , today it is part of the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents also orientate themselves towards the district town, whose parish is incorporated into the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Wąglik-Kolonia

Wąglik-Kolonia can be called a forest settlement, it consists of four houses. Maps from 1938 do not show any buildings here.

traffic

Wąglik and Wąglik-Kolonia can be reached from the Polish state road 58 via Snopki (Snopken / Wartendorf) . Until 1945, Wartendorf was also the next station on the now abandoned Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , so that there is no longer a rail connection today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1442
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Balzershausen
  3. ↑ a b Wonglik / Balzershausen at genealogy Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Snopken / Waiting village
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  8. ↑ Wąglik bei Polska w liczbach.pl
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
  10. ↑ Measurement table sheet : 2396 Johannisburg . 1938.