Wiłunie
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Nidzica | ||
| Gmina : | Janowiec Kościelny | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 17 ' N , 20 ° 27' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NNI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Powierz / DK 7 ↔ Safronka - Janowiec Kościelny | ||
| Rail route : |
PKP line 216: Działdowo - Olsztyn and PKP line 225 Wielbark → Nidzica Railway station: Nidzica |
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| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Wiłunie ( German Willuhnen ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Janowiec Kościelny in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).
Geographical location and transport links
Wiłunie is nine kilometers south of the district town of Nidzica (Neidenburg) not far from the Polish state road 7 (also European route 77 ) and can be reached via Powierz (Poweirsen , 1938 to 1945 Waldbeck) in an easterly direction. The nearest train station is in the town of Nidzica with rail connections to Działdowo (Soldau) , Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Wielbark (Willenberg) .
history
The inconspicuous village of Wiluni was founded in 1498 and before 1945 consisted of just a few small farms. In 1874, the place in the newly built was District Kandien : (today Polish Kanigowo) in the district of Neidenburg in Administrative district Königsberg (1905-1945 Administrative district Allenstein of) Prussian province of East Prussia incorporated.
In 1910 the rural community of Willuhnen had 28 inhabitants. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Willuhnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Willuhnen, 23 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.
On April 1, 1936, the village lost its independence and was incorporated into the neighboring village of Saffronken (now in Polish: Safronka).
As a result of the war , Willuhnen came to Poland in 1945 with southern East Prussia . Today it belongs to Gmina Janowiec Kościelny in the powiat Nidzicki within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
church
Evangelical
The pre-1945 majority Protestant then population Willuhnens belonged to the parish Kandien (today Polish: Kanigowo) within the church district Neidenburg (Nidzica) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . Today Wiłunie is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nidzica in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Roman Catholic
The now predominantly Catholic population of Wiłunies uses the former Evangelical parish church in Kanigowo as their place of worship. The parish Kanigowo belongs to the deanery Nidzica in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Willuhnen
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Kandien District
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Neidenburg district
- ↑ 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. 113
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 495