Wężówka (Wydminy)

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Wężówka
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Wężówka (Poland)
Wężówka
Wężówka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 57 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '18 "  N , 22 ° 4' 48"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Straduny / DK 65 - Stare Juchy ↔ Wydminy / ext. 655
Gawliki Wielkie - Gawliki Małe → Wężówka
Rail route : Railway Głomno – Białystok
Railway station: Wydminy
Next international airport : Danzig



Wężówka ( German  Wensowken , 1938 to 1945 Großbalzhöfen , also: Balzhöfen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Wężówka is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 23 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) . The Głomno – Białystok railway runs along the northern edge of the town .

history

The small village called Wensöwken before 1785 and Wenszöwen before 1818 was called Wensowken until 1938 . On May 1, 1475, the Commander-in-Chief of Brandenburg Bernhard von Balzhofen prescribed a service item over 10 hooves and a service item over 5 hooves.

On March 29, 1874 Wensowken was in the newly established District Small Gablick ( Polish Gawliki Małe involved), who - existed until 1945 and - on 15 November 1938 in "District Balzhöfen" renamed county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The registry office responsible for Wensowken since 1874 was located in Widminnen (Wydminy in Polish). The population of the village was 223 in 1910 and 171 in 1925.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wensowken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Wensowken 140 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the manor district Klein Gablick ( Polish Gawliki Małe ) was incorporated into Wensowken. The population rose to 502 by 1933. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) in 1938, Wensowken was renamed "Großbalzhöfen" and formed from October 1, 1938 together with the community of Kleinbalzhöfen (until 1938 Junien , Polish Junie ) the new municipality of Balzhöfen , which in 1939 had a total of 441 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, the place was assigned to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . Since then he has had the Polish name form "Wężówka". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Balzhöfen district (1938–1945)

On November 15, 1938, the Klein Gablick district, which had existed since March 29, 1874, was renamed "Balzöfen District" without any structural changes.

church

Until 1945 Wensowken resp. Großbalzhöfen in the Evangelical Church of Widminnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Wężówka belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a branch parish of the parish Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic parish church of Wydminy in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

The school in Wensowken resp. Großbalzhöfen was two-tier. In 1945 70 children started school here.

traffic

Wężówka is located on a side road that connects the Polish state road DK 65 (formerly German Reichsstraße 132 ) at Straduny (Stradaunen) via Stare Juchy (Alt Jucha , 1938 to 1945 Fließdorf) with the voivodship road DW 655 near Wydminy (Widminnen) . The nearest train station is Wydminy on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1445
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Großbalzhöfen
  3. ↑ a b c d e Wensowken, Lötzen district
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Klein Gablick / Balzhöfen district
  5. ^ Herbert Marzian ; Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 82
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493