Wojnasy

Wojnasy
	Wojnasy
	Wojnasy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Wieliczki
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 ′ N , 22 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 40 " N , 22 ° 39 ′ 45" E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-404
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Cimochy / ext. 655 - Cimoszki → Wojnasy
	Markowskie ↔ Wierciochy
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Wojnasy ( German Woynassen , 1938 to 1945 Woinassen ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Wojnasy is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 500 meters west of the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , which was the state border between Germany and Poland here until 1939 . The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is eleven kilometers to the northwest.

history

The time Nurrek before 1777 Worinassen and until 1938 Woynassen called village was founded in the 1553rd Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Markowsken ( Polish Markowskie ) integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Markau (Ostpr.)" - the circle Oletzko (1933-1945 county Treuburg) in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Woynassen had 242 inhabitants. The population decreased to 208 by 1933 and amounted to 210 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Woynassen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Woynassen, 142 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938 the spelling of the place name Woynassen was changed to "Woinassen".

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Wojnasy”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the rural community Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Woynassen resp. Woinassen parish in the Evangelical Church of Wielitzken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Wojnasy belongs to the parish church of Wieliczki in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members orientate themselves towards the parish of Suwałki in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wojnasy is north of the voivodship road DW 655 and can be reached from there via Cimochy (Groß Czymochen , 1929 to 1945 Reuss) and Cimoszki . In addition, a side road leads from Markowskie (Markowsken , 1938 to 1945 Markau (Ostpr.)) Via Wojnasy to Wierciochy , which is already in the area of the Podlaskie Voivodeship . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1474
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Woinassen
^ Rolf Jehke, District Markowsken / Markau (Ostp.)
^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 67
^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1474

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Woinassen

[3] Rolf Jehke, District Markowsken / Markau (Ostp.)

[4] Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 67

[7] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484