Wrony (Giżycko)

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Wrony (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '39 "  N , 21 ° 41' 18"  E
Residents : 326 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Kętrzyn - Sterławki Wielkie ↔ Giżycko
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wrony ( German  Groß Wronnen , 1938 to 1945 Großwarnau ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Wrony is located on the north shore of Lake Taita ( Jezioro Tajty in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is six kilometers to the east.

history

The founding of the then Groß Wronken took place in 1478. It later consisted of the village and an estate, which was 750 meters west of the village, which corresponds to the present-day locality of Wrony Nowe .

From 1874, Groß Wronnen was incorporated into the Kamionken district (in Polish: Kamionki ). This - 1928 renamed "District Steintal" - belonged until 1945 to the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945 "administrative district Allenstein") in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Groß Wronken had 285 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the village expanded to the neighboring town of Schönberg (Polish: Piękna Góra), which was incorporated. The number of inhabitants rose accordingly to 468 by 1933 and amounted to 506 in 1939, after Kallinowen (Polish: Kalinowo) had also been incorporated on October 1, 1936 .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Groß Wronnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Groß Wronnen, 240 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Groß Wronnen was renamed “Großwarnau” for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Wrony”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a village within the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Groß Wronnen resp. Großwarnau parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Wrony belongs to the Catholic parish in Kamionki (Kamionken , 1928 to 1945 Steintal) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish Church of Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wrony is located on the important Polish provincial road DW 592 (former German Reichsstrasse 135 ) which connects the three powiat districts of Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein district ), Kętrzyn ( Rastenburg district ) and Giżycko ( Lötzen district ). There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1554
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Großwarnau
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kamionken / Steintal district
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 79
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492