Węgielsztyn

Węgielsztyn
	Węgielsztyn
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 14 '  N , 21 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '7 "  N , 21 ° 38' 5"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Przystań - ext. 650 - Brzozowo - Perły / DK 63
Rail route :	Railway Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo Railway station: Przystań
Next international airport :	Danzig

Węgielsztyn ( German  Engelstein ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

View of Węgielsztyn (Engelstein)

Geographical location

Węgielsztyn is located on the east bank of Lake Engelstein ( Jezioro Węgielsztyńskie in Polish ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is seven kilometers to the east. The village is in a valley that the Prussians had protected by entrenchments , the remains of which can still be seen.

history

The village of Engelstein was founded on September 13, 1406 under the order's high master Ulrich von Jungingen as an interest village. The locator was the first Schulze named Klingenberg . In later times, Wilhelmsberg (Klikucie in Polish) and Engelsteinhöh (Kraski) belonged to the Engelstein community as a village or place to live.

On May 6, 1874 Engelstein office Village was and thus its name to a District , which until 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

604 inhabitants were registered in Engelstein in 1910. Their number rose to 682 by 1925, was 639 in 1933 and was only 592 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Engelstein came to Poland in 1945 along with the whole of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish name form "Węgielsztyn". From 1973 to 1976 the village was the seat of Gmina Węgielsztyn. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and at the same time a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Engelstein District (1874–1945)

The Engelstein district was initially made up of three and then only two communities:

German name	Polish name	Remarks
Angel stone	Węgielsztyn
Rehsau	Rydzówka
Rosenstein	Różewiec	1928 incorporated into Rehsau

church

→ Main article : Engelstein Church

Church building

The tower of the church in Węgielsztyn in the evening sunshine

The church in today's Węgielsztyn is a plastered stone building and dates from the last quarter of the 15th century. With drawn- choir she has a lovely east gable. The west tower in front was completed at the beginning of the 18th century. The interior of the church was particularly valuable and worth seeing. Individual items could be saved and are now in Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony . One of the three bells survived on the bell cemetery in Hamburg and rings today in Dom to Verden (Aller) . After the war, the building was extensively renovated and is again - now consecrated to St. Joseph - as a place of worship.

Parish

Engelstein was one of the oldest church foundations in Masuria . There was already a house of worship here in pre-Reformation times. A few years after the introduction of the Reformation , Lutheran clergy served here. The parish, which in 1925 had a total of 3,250 parishioners in 25 villages, towns and places of residence, belonged to the Protestant parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . The vast majority of the population was of the Protestant denomination. Due to flight and displacement as a result of the war, there are only a few Protestant church members in Węgielsztyn today. You are rushing to the parish in Węgorzewo , a subsidiary of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Today the church is a Roman Catholic place of worship, as the majority of the population today is of the Catholic denomination. The parish of St. Josef with the branch church in Perły (Perlswalde) and the hospital church in Rudziszki (Raudischken , 1938 to 1945 Raudingen) is part of the Węgorzewo deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Węgielsztyn is conveniently located on a side road that - coming from Przystań (Pristanien , 1938 to 1945 Passdorf) - connects the Polish voivodship road 650 with the national road 63 (formerly German Reich road 131 ) near Perły (Perlswalde) . Przystań is the nearest train station and is located on the Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo (Rastenburg – Angerburg) railway line, which is no longer dedicated to public transport .

Web links

Commons : Węgielsztyn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1444
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Węgielsztyn - Engelstein
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Engelstein
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Engelstein District
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968. P. 87–88, Fig. 350–352
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , p. 476
9. ↑ The parish of Węgielsztyn in the diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original of August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.