Wężewo (Orzysz)
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Pisz | |
Gmina : | Orzysz | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 49 ' N , 21 ° 51' E | |
Residents : | 480 (2010) | |
Postal code : | 12-250 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | |
License plate : | NPI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - Mikołajki ↔ Orzysz - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania ) | |
Rail route : |
Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service) Railway station: Orzysz |
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Next international airport : | Danzig |
Wężewo ( German Wensewen , 1938 to 1945 Wensen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( urban and rural municipality Arys ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).
Geographical location
Wężewo is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 21 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German Johannisburg ).
history
The small former Gutsdorf Wensewen (also: Wensöwen ) was founded in 1484.
In 1874 the town to the recently completed came District Eckersberg , which existed until 1945 and the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen : (1905 Government district Allenstein of) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wensenwen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wensewen, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.
On September 30, 1928, Wensewen gave up its independence and was incorporated into the neighboring rural community of Eckersberg, and on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938 the place was renamed "Wensen" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names renamed .
In 1945 all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland as a result of the war . Wensewen resp. Wensen concerned. The village received the Polish form of the name "Wężewo". The hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural community Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated.
Population development
year | number |
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1818 | 137 |
1838 | 88 |
1871 | 92 |
1885 | 112 |
1895 | 91 |
1905 | 92 |
1910 | 88 |
2010 | 340 |
church
Until 1945 Wensewen resp. Wensen parish in the Evangelical Church of Eckersberg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Wężewo belongs on the Catholic side to the parish Okartowo in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish in the district town of Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Wężewo is located on the Polish national road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ), which connects the three voivodships Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie with each other. The next train station is Orzysz on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German Rothfließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1445
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wensen
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Eckersberg District
- ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 78
- ↑ Gmina Orzysz
- ↑ Population data at GenWiki ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491