Wały (Szczytno)

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Wały (Poland)
Wały
Wały
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '9 "  N , 21 ° 6' 50"  E
Residents : 234 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Młyńsko / DK 53 - Płozy ↔ Lipowiec - Łuka
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wały ( German  Wallen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Wały is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

history

Wallen was 1874 in the newly established District Wawrochen ( Polish Wawrochy ) incorporated, which - in 1938 District German Heide renamed - to the East Prussian district Szczytno belonged. In 1910 Wallen had 393 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 366, and in 1939 there were 343.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wallen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wallen, 253 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Wallen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name Wały . As the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ), the village is now part of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 there were 234 inhabitants registered in Wały.

church

Until 1945, Wallen was ecclesiastically oriented towards Lipowitz (1933 to 1945 Lindenort , Lipowiec in Polish ) - to the Protestant church there in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union also read about the Roman Catholic Church there in the diocese of Warmia . For the Catholics, the church of the village now called Lipowiec is still the central place of worship, but is now in the Archdiocese of Warmia . The destruction of their former church now forces the Protestant church members to align themselves with the parish in Szczytno , which belongs to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The village school in Wallen, founded during the reign of Frederick the Great , received a new building in 1927. Two classes were taught in it in 1939.

traffic

Wały is located on a side road that branches off at Młyńsko from the Polish state road 53 (former German state road 134 ) and runs in the direction of Łuka (Luckau) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Wały w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1324
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wallen
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Wawrafen / Deutschheide district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 98