Wesołowo (Węgorzewo)

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Wesołowo
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Wesołowo (Poland)
Wesołowo
Wesołowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Węgorzewo
Geographic location : 54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '14 "  N , 21 ° 36' 48"  E
Residents : 117
Postal code : 11-600
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : BiedaszkiPasternak - Rudziszki
Guja → Wesołowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Gdansk Airport



Wesołowo ( German  Groß Wessolowen , 1938 to 1945 Raudensee ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Rural property in Wesołowo (Groß Wessolowen)

Geographical location

Wesołowo is located west of the Nordenburg Lake ( Jezioro Oświn in Polish ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is eleven kilometers away in a south-easterly direction.

history

The village originally named Wessolowen and founded in 1406 is a widely scattered village. It was not until the 19th century that the additional form of the name in Groß -Wessolowen appeared. The Paschäken (Polish Pasieki, no longer existing) residential area also belonged to the estate village .

In the years 1874-1945 United Wessolowen was in the District Guja included the for loop Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 a total of 415 inhabitants were registered in Wessolowen. Their number rose to 429 by 1925, decreased to 403 by 1933, and was 374 by 1939.

For political and ideological reasons in order to avoid foreign-sounding place names, Groß Wessolowen was renamed “Raudensee” on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo), which is responsible for Wesołowo and also for Biedaszki (Biedaschken , 1938 to 1945 Wieskoppen) . It belongs to the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Groß Wessolowen resp. Raudensee was not a church village, rather it was parish in the Evangelical Church Engelstein in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wesołowo belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Josef in Węgielsztyn (Engelstein) with a branch church in the not far away Perły (Perlswalde) in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Church in Węgorzewo , a branch church of Parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wesołowo is west of the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) and also west of the former Königsberg – Angerburg railway line on a side road, the Biedaszki (Biedaschken , 1938 to 1945 Wieskoppen) with Pasternak (Waldhof) and also Rudziszki (Raudischken , 1938 to 1945 Raudingen) connects. In addition, a feeder road from Guja (Groß Guja) ends in Wesołowo.

Until 1945 Perlswalde ( Polish Perły ) was the next station on the railway line from Königsberg to Angerburg , which was abandoned after the border between Russia and Poland was drawn in 1945.

Web links

Commons : Wesoło (Węgorzewo)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1444
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Raudensee
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Guja District
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  5. 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).
  6. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476