Wężówko

Wężówko
	Wężówko
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Budry
Geographic location :	54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '21 "  N , 21 ° 46' 4"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pawłowo ↔ Olszewo Węgorzewskie - Góry
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wężówko ( German  Wensowken , 1938 to 1945 Wensen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Wężówko is located on the west bank of the Angerapp ( Polish Węgorapa ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is nine kilometers south.

history

The village called Wensoewrzen at the time and Wensowken until 1938 was founded in 1569. There was an estate 800 meters southwest of the village.

Between 1874 and 1945 Wensowken was in the District Olschöwen ( Polish Olszewo Wegorzewskie incorporated), which - renamed "District Kanitz" 1939 - the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

189 inhabitants were registered in Wensowken in 1910. Their number was 192 in 1925, rose to 207 by 1933 and was still 240 in 1939. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Wensowken was given the abandonment of foreign-sounding place names for political and ideological reasons Renamed "Wensen".

This renaming did not last long. When the place came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia , it was given the Polish place name "Wężówko". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place in the community of Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Wensowken resp. Until 1945, Wensen was parish both in the Protestant Church of Olschöwen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wężówko belongs to the Catholic parish Olszewo Węgorzewskie in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a subsidiary of the parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg .

Native of the place

• Ernst Neumann (born July 13, 1888 in Wensowken, † May 19, 1955 in Bad Segeberg), German veterinarian, SS leader and politician

traffic

Wężówko is a little away from the traffic to the east of the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) and can be reached via side roads, one of which connects Pawłowo (Paulswalde) with Wężówko and continues into the Polish-Russian Hrenzgebiet near Góry (Gurren) . Between 1914 and 1945 there was a rail connection via the Olschöwen station (1938 to 1945 Kanitz) on the Angerburg – Gumbinnen line , which was shut down and partially dismantled due to the war and the drawing of the border between Poland and Russia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1445
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wensen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Olschöwen / Kanitz district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477