Wałpusza

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Wałpusza
Waldpusch ( m )
The remains of a weir by the Młyński Staw pond.

The remains of a weir by the Młyński Staw pond.

Data
location Poland
River system Vistula
Drain over Omulew  → Narew  → Vistula  → Baltic Sea
source in the Jezioro Wałpusz lake in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northeast of the town of Szczytno (Ortelsburg)
53 ° 34 ′ 56 ″  N , 21 ° 4 ′ 4 ″  E
muzzle at village Sędrowo ( Sendrowen , Gmina Wielbark (Willberg) ) in the Omulew coordinates: 53 ° 21 '10 "  N , 21 ° 1' 33"  O 53 ° 21 '10 "  N , 21 ° 1' 33"  O

length 65.7 km
Flowing lakes Jezioro Wałpusz , Młyński Staw

The Wałpusza (German: the Waldpusch ) is a small left tributary of the Omulew (Omulef) in Poland .

geography

The 65.7 km long river has its source in Jezioro Wałpusz ( German  Waldpusch Lake ) in the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship (formerly East Prussia ) northeast of the city of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg ), flows south, crosses Droga krajowa 53 near Młyńsko , passes the village of Stachy (until 1945: Waldpusch) and flows into the Omulew at the village of Sędrowo ( German  Sendrowen ) , which forms the border with the Masovian Voivodeship here.

history

The first mention of Lake Wałpusz goes 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”.

literature

  • Herrgeist, Fritz: The water, soil and dyke associations in East and West Prussia 1868 to 1938: Appendix: Melioration cooperatives in the Prussian province of Posen 1851 to 1918 , Quelle & Meyer 1983, ISBN 9783774564565

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Gerullis : The old Prussian place names collected and linguistically treated , Association of Scientific Publishers, 1922, p. 9 and 135
  2. ↑ Rozalia Przybytek: place names of Baltic origin in the southern part of East Prussia , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993, ISBN 9783515064491 , p. 277

Web links

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