Wielki Las (Pisz)

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Wielki Las
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Wielki Las (Poland)
Wielki Las
Wielki Las
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '30 "  N , 21 ° 42' 23"  E
Residents : 150 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ruciane-Nida / DK 58 - Wiartel ↔ Łacha
Anuszewo → Wielki Las
Uściany Stare → Wielki Las
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wielki Las ( German  Wielgilasz , 1905 to 1945 Tannenheim ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural municipality Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Wielki Las is located in the eastern south of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , twelve kilometers southwest of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The village, called Wielkilass after 1818, Wielgilass after 1871 and Wielgilasz until 1905 , was founded in 1699 as a casket settlement with two hooves and 20 acres and consisted of several small farms and homesteads. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the Kullik district (in Polish: Kulik ).

In 1910 the village had 80 inhabitants. Their number rose to 115 by 1933 and totaled 101 in 1939.

When southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , this also affected the village of Tannenheim. It received the Polish name form "Wielki Las" and is now a place within the urban and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Wielki Las had 150 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Wielgilasz resp. Tannenheim parish in the Protestant Church of Turoseeling (1938 to 1945 Mittenheide , Polish Turośl ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wielki Las belongs to the Catholic parish of Turośl in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish in Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wielki Las is on a side road that leads from Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny- , 1938 to 1945 Niedersee-Nieden) via Wiartel ( (Groß) Wiartel ) to Łacha in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . In addition, streets from the neighboring villages of Anuszewo (Annussewen , 1938 to 1945 Brennerheim) and Uściany Stare (Alt Uszanny , 1905 to 1945 Grünheide) end in the town . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1449
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Tannenheim
  3. ↑ a b Wielgilaß - Tannenheim in genealogy Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kullik District
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Wielki Las bei Polska w liczbach
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 492