Wałpusz (place)

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Wałpusz
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Wałpusz (Poland)
Wałpusz
Wałpusz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 36 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '49 "  N , 21 ° 3' 42"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 58 (near Zielonka ) → Wałpusz
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wałpusz ( German  Waldpusch , Masurian Wałpusz ) is a place in the rural municipality Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ) of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Wałpusz is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

history

Place name

The place is located on the west bank of the Waldpusch Lake ( Jezioro Wałpusz in Polish ), the first mention of which dates back to around 1420. At that time the lake was called Alpus , also Walpus. The name has its roots in the Old Prussian language and can be interpreted as "young, fresh" when the Hittite , Lithuanian and Latvian languages are included. In German , a “d” was inserted through a reinterpretation to “forest”.

Local history

Until 1707 the estate belonged to the Polish tribe of the Roch I or II noble family, which went out on February 21, 1707 with the death of Christoph von Roch. Around 1785, twelve fireplaces are described in the aristocratic village ; Patron or landlord is a Fr. von Bogdanski. In the 18th century the estate had around 100 hectares and belonged to Wilhelm von Colrep.

In 1874 the manor district of Waldpusch ion was incorporated into the newly established district of Schöndamerau ( Trelkowo in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . Around 1890 the population is given as 61, and in 1910 there were 41. After 1900 the estate was divided up due to over-indebtedness.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Waldpusch belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to the German Empire ) or join Poland . In Waldpusch, 28 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the independence of the Gutsbezirks Forest Pusch ended with his inclusion in the neighboring community Seelonken (until 1912 Zielonken , 1938-1945 Ulrichsee , Polish Zielonka ).

As a result of the war, Waldpusch came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Wałpusz”. Today it is part of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Waldpusch was parish church until 1945 in the Protestant church Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic church Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Wałpusz is also one of the churches in the district town of Szczytno - the local Protestant church in the current Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary, now in the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Wałpusz is a little out of the way. The place can be reached via a side road from the state road 58 south of Zielonka . The railway line Czerwonka – Szczytno ( German  Rothfließ – Ortelsburg ) ran along the western local border until 1992 (passenger traffic) and 2002 (freight traffic ), the nearest railway station of which was Ochódno (Achodden , 1938 to 1945 Neuvölklingen ). The railway line is closed and has been dismantled since 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1323
  2. ↑ Georg Gerullis : The old Prussian place names collected and linguistically treated , Association of Scientific Publishers, 1922, p. 9 and 135
  3. ↑ Rozalia Przybytek: place names of Baltic origin in the southern part of East Prussia , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993, ISBN 9783515064491 , p. 277
  4. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon, Volume 7 , Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1867, p. 523
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete Topography of the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume 1: East Prussia, Marienwerder 1785, p. 198
  6. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Schöndamerau district
  7. ^ Gustav Neumann: Neumanns Orts-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs: a geographical-statistical reference book for German regional studies , 1894, p. 941
  8. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  9. ↑ 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. 98
  10. ↑ Ulrichsee (Seelonken) at the Ortelsburg district community
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496