Wojny (Biała Piska)

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Wojny (Poland)
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Wojny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 37 '  N , 22 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '59 "  N , 22 ° 10' 57"  E
Residents : 64 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Myśliki / 1867N → Wojny
Włosty → Wojny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wojny [ ˈvɔi̯nɨ ] ( German  Woynen , 1938 to 1945 Woinen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Wojny is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 25 kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The place of the later village was mentioned as Voyne as early as 1452, but it was only founded in 1471 by the Teutonic Knight Order as a free property with 27 hooves under Magdeburg law and after 1540 as Voinen and until 1938 as Woynen as a place with one kilometer further east - was called windmill .

From 1874 to 1945 Woynen was in the District Belzonzen ( Polish Bełcząc ) incorporated, which - renamed "District Großdorf (East Prussia)." 1938 - the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

168 residents were registered in Woynen in 1910, compared to 158 in 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Woynen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Woynen, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, the name spelling Woynens was outlandish names appearing in "Woinen" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population in 1939 was 147.

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 “Wojny”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the network of the city and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then the Voivodeship Warmia Masuria belonging. The population in 2011 was 64.

Religions

Until 1945 Woynen was parish in the Protestant Church of Skarzinnen 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, keeping the Protestant inhabitants to the church community in the city Biala Piska, a filial community of the parish Pisz in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Wojny belongs to the Skarżyn parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Wojny can be reached from Myśliki (Happy) or Włosty (Wlosten , Flosten from 1938 to 1945 ) on land roads.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1474
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Woinen
  3. ↑ Woynen / Woinen in genealogy Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Großdorf District (East Pr.)
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ 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. 78
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  9. ^ Wieś Wojny w liczbach
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 492