Wydminy

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Wydminy
Coat of arms of Gmina Wydminy
Wydminy (Poland)
Wydminy
Wydminy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycki
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 59 '  N , 22 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '53 "  N , 22 ° 1' 51"  E
Residents : 2300 ()
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp ↔ Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
Rail route : Białystok – Ełk – Korsze
Next international airport : Danzig



Wydminy [ vɨdˈminɨ ] ( German Widminnen ) is a village in the powiat Giżycki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 6270 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

geography

Wydminy

Wydminy is located 18 kilometers southeast of Giżycko (Lötzen) . The place is located at the southern end of Jezioro Wydmińskie (Widminner See) in the Masurian Lake District .

history

Until 1945

The first written mention of Widminnen comes from the year 1480. In the sixteenth century a church was built in the village and in 1558 a parish was established. In 1656 parts of the village were destroyed by war. During the plague in 1709–1710, 227 people died in Widminnen. In 1868 the railway station on the Königsberg (Prussia) –Lyck line was built. During the First World War , the village was 75% destroyed. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Widminnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Widminnen, 1,180 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote. According to the 1939 census, Wydminy had 2235 inhabitants.

Widminnen District (1874–1945)

Widminnen became Amtsdorf on March 29, 1874, giving its name to an administrative district in the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Three villages were incorporated:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name
Schemions (from 1928 :)
Bergwalde		 Siemionki
Sucholasken (from 1935 :)
Rauschenwalde		 Sucholaski
Dedication Wydminy

1945 until today

After the Second World War , Wydminy became the seat of a municipality on June 11, 1945, which included the villages Sucholaski, Mazuchówka, Cybulki, Wężówka and Siemionki. On July 5 of the same year, Wydminy received its town charter, which was revoked on September 27, 1945. In 1970 the village had 2075 inhabitants. From 1975 to 1998 the village belonged to the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Church building

The once Protestant, now Roman Catholic parish church in Wydminy (Widminnen)

A church building probably erected in the middle of the 16th century fell victim to a major city fire in 1572. A new building was erected in 1701, including the old enclosure, which is reminiscent of a marble plaque in the entrance area of ​​the church. An extensive renovation took place in 1867, when a suspended ceiling was added. The altar and pulpit date from 1719.

Until 1945 the building was a Protestant church and is now a Roman Catholic parish church, which bears the name Kościół Chrystusa Zbawiciela ( German  Christ the Redeemer Church ).

Parish

Evangelical

In 1558 a Protestant parish with a large parish was established in Widminnen . Until 1945 it belonged to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population made it no longer possible to live in a church community in the post-war years. Today in Wydminy there is again a small community that owns a chapel in a private house. It is a subsidiary of the Giżycko parish church in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 only very few Catholic church members lived in Widminnen. They belonged to the parish church St. Bruno in Lötzen within the deanery Masuria II (seat in Johannisburg , Polish Pisz ) in the diocese of Warmia . Today Wydminy is a Roman Catholic parish with the once Protestant church as a place of worship, incorporated into the dean's office św. Krzystofa Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Greek Catholic

In Wydminy, a Greek Catholic community with its own church has also formed.

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Wydminy includes the village itself and 27 other villages with school offices (sołectwa). The municipality has an area of ​​233.46 km². 61% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 20% is covered with forest. There are 21 smaller and larger lakes in the municipality.

traffic

Wydminy is from the provincial road DW655 traversed a compound in the neighboring circuits to the Podlaskie manufactures.

The Głomno – Białystok railway runs through the municipality. Before 1945 it connected the city of Königsberg (Prussia) ( Kaliningrad in Russian ) with the city of Brest-Litowsk , but is now only operated on Polish territory. The Gmina Wydminy is connected to the line with the two train stations Siedliska (Schedlisken / Dankfelde) and Wydminy.

The closest international airport to the rural community is Gdansk Airport . It can only be reached via national and voivodeship roads, which is time-consuming.

Personalities

  • Reinhold Unterberger (born February 7, 1853), gynecologist († 1920)
  • Justus Pabst (born March 6, 1875), local history researcher and photographer († 1958)
  • Paul Koralus (born December 16, 1892), painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 1991)
  • Hans-Werner Janz (born June 24, 1906), neurologist and psychiatrist († 2003)
  • Reinhold Heling (born September 20, 1927), judge, genealogist and historian († 2008)
  • Hannelore Heise (born August 16, 1941), graphic designer, type artist and university lecturer.

Web links

Commons : Wydminy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mapa.szukacz.pl (Polish, accessed April 9, 2012)
  2. ^ 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. 81
  3. ↑ a b Wrota Warmia Mazury.pl (accessed in Polish on April 29, 2012) ( Memento from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Widminnen District
  5. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)
  6. ^ Wydminy - Widminnen .
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 122–123, figs. 559–561
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493
  9. ↑ Dedication
  10. ↑ regioset.pl (pl / en)