Widryny

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Widryny
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Widryny (Poland)
Widryny
Widryny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Reszel
Geographic location : 53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '22 "  N , 21 ° 10' 18"  E
Residents : 131 (2011)
Postal code : 11-440
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Śpiglówka ↔ Plenowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Widryny ( German  Widrinnen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Reszel ( Rößel ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Widryny is located in north-eastern Poland, 40 kilometers south of the border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad , on the south bank of Lake Widrinner ( Jezioro Widryńskie in Polish ). To the district town of Kętrzyn (German Rastenburg ) it is 17 kilometers in a north-easterly direction.

history

In 1378 the owner of the surrounding estates set up his seat on the site of today's Widryny on an area of ​​10 hooves . In 1563 both Germans and Poles lived in the village, in 1693 only Poles lived in the village. In 1820 there were 22 residential buildings in the village. The village school opened in 1837.

In 1874 Widrinnen was incorporated into the newly established administrative district Rehstall (Polish: Stachowizna ), which was renamed "District Pülz" (Polish: Pilec ) on June 22, 1929 and until 1945 belonged to the district of Rastenburg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Until 1929, Widrinnen was also included in the Rehstall registry office , then until 1945 in the Bäslack registry office ( Bezławki in Polish ).

In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Widrinnen became part of the People's Republic of Poland as "Widryny" . In 1973 the Schulzenamt Widryny, to which the localities Grzybowo (Spiegels-Korschen) , Pasterzewo (Pastern) , Śpigiel (Spiegels) and Śpiglówka (Spieglowken , 1938 to 1945 Spiegelswalde) belong, became part of the municipality of Reszel (Rößel) in the powiat Kętrzyński (district Rastenburg ). In 1975 a building for a retail store was built, and in 1976 an eight-grade elementary school was opened in Widryny.

Population development

year number
1820 309
1885 549
1905 508
1910 448
1933 794
1939 784
2011 131

church

Until 1945 Widrinnen was parish in the Protestant Church of Warpuhnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Legienen in what was then the diocese of Warmia .

Today Widryny belongs to both the Protestant and Catholic sides of Warpuny (Warpuhnen) - in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

The village of Widryny is not on any major road. Voivodeship road 590 can be reached via a side road in the north after about two kilometers .

The place does not have its own rail connection.

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is about 110 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 180 kilometers to the west .

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 237 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1447
  2. ↑ a b Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi in Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 237
  3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Rehstall / Pülz
  4. ↑ Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 302
  5. ↑ a b Widrinnen at GenWiki
  6. ^ Wieś Widryny w liczbach
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 502