Wichrowiec

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Wichrowiec
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Wichrowiec (Poland)
Wichrowiec
Wichrowiec
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Nidzica
Gmina : Janowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 21 '  N , 20 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '16 "  N , 20 ° 41' 31"  E
Residents : 118 (2011)
Postal code : 13-113
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NNI
Economy and Transport
Street : ( Jagarzewo / ext. 604 ) ↔ Zachy - Róg
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wichrowiec ( German  Wychrowitz , 1938 to 1945 Hardichhausen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).

Geographical location

Wichrowiec is located in the southwestern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers east of the district town of Nidzica ( German  Neidenburg ).

history

The village Wichrowietzke after 1785 Wichrowitz , after 1820 Wychrowitz called, was founded 1571st In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established district of Roggen (Polish: Róg ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg . The population of Wychrowitz was 289 in 1910 and 259 in 1933.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Wychrowitz was renamed "Hardichhausen" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. The population decreased to 229 by 1939.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Hardichhausen was also affected. The village received the Polish name form "Wichrowiec" and is today as the seat of a Schulzenamts (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the rural community Janowo in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Wichrowiec had 118 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Wychrowitz resp. Hardichhausen in the Protestant parish Muschaken (Polish Muszaki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Neidenburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, Wichrowiec belongs on the Protestant side to the parish in Róg (Roggen) , a branch of the parish in Nidzica in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and on the Catholic side to the Muszaki parish church in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Wichrowiec is located on a side road that branches off from Voivodeship Road 604 at Jagarzewo (Jägersdorf) and leads via Zachy (things) to Róg (rye) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

personality

Native of the place

Web links

Historical recordings from Wychrowitz / Hardichhausen:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Wichrowiec w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1446 (Polish)
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Hardichhausen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Roggen
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district
  7. ↑ Gmina Janowo: Sołectwa (Polish)
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495
  9. ↑ circle Neidenburg in AGoFF