Wyżegi

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Wyżegi
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Wyżegi (Poland)
Wyżegi
Wyżegi
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Wielbark
Geographic location : 53 ° 20 '  N , 20 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 19 '37 "  N , 20 ° 52' 42"  E
Residents : 170 (2011)
Postal code : 12-160
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Piwnice Wielkie / DK 57 → Wyżegi
Opaleniec / DK 57 → Wyżegi
Baranowo → Wyżegi
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wyżegi ( German  Wyseggen , 1938 to 1945 grassland ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Wielbark (city and rural community Willenberg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Wyżegi is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , right on the border with the Masovian Voivodeship . Up to the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ) there are 27 kilometers in a north direction.

history

The founding privilege for the place named after 1820 Wisegen was issued on February 6, 1787. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was in the District United Piwnitz ( Polish Piwnice Wielkie ) integrated, the - its existence to - 1938 "District Großalbrechtsort" renamed East Prussian district Szczytno belonged.

In 1910 Wyseggen had 321 inhabitants. On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Wyseggen was renamed "Grünlanden" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names. The population was 336 in 1933 and rose to 461 by 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Wyseggen, 245 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland had 2 votes.

Grünlanden was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war, along with all of southern East Prussia . The village received the Polish name form "Wyżegi" and is today with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the urban and rural community Wielbark (Willenberg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Until 1945 Wyseggen resp. Grasslands ecclesiastically oriented towards Flammberg ( Polish Opaleniec ): to the Protestant Church of Flammberg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Roman Catholic St. Josepf Church in Flammberg in the then diocese of Warmia . The relationship between the Catholics and the place known today as “Opaleniec” has remained, it is now in the Archdiocese of Warmia . In the absence of their church in Flammberg, the Protestant residents now belong to the parish in Szczytno in the current Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poen .

school

The primary school in Wyseggen / Grünlanden received a new school building in 1912/13.

traffic

Wyżegi is located west of the Polish state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) and can be reached via the Piwnice Wielkie (Groß Piwnitz , 1938 to 1945 Großalbrechtsort) or Opaleniec (Opalenietz , 1904 to 1945 Flammberg) junctions . In addition, a side road leads from the neighboring town of Baranowo (Barranowen , 1938 to 1945 Neufiess) to Wyżegi. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieś Wyżegi w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1565
  3. ↑ a b Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grünlanden
  4. ↑ a b Wyseggen / Grünlangen at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Piwnitz / Großalbrechtsort district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ 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. 99
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495