Wygryny

Wygryny
	Wygryny
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 '  N , 21 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '2 "  N , 21 ° 32' 55"  E
Residents :	340 (2011)
Postal code :	12-220
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Wólka - ext. 610 ↔ Wygryny
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wygryny [ vɨˈɡrɨnɨ ] ( German  Wigrinnen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Ruciane-Nida ( urban and rural community Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Wygryny on the west bank of the Beldahnsees ( Polish Jezioro Bełdany ) was founded 1711th The village became important for the region because of its sawmill , which was 1.3 kilometers southwest of the town center. 1874 Wigrinnen was in the newly built office district Guszianka (Polish Guzianka ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Guschienen" renamed - was and until 1945 for Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1818 Wigrinnen had 50 inhabitants, the number of inhabitants rose to 219 in 1867, 325 in 1885, 458 in 1898, 510 in 1905 and 460 in 1910.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wigrinnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wigrinnen, 320 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In 1933 453 inhabitants lived in Wigrinnen, in 1939 473. Until 1945 Wigrinnen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

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 "Wygryny". It is now the seat of a Schulzenamt and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Wygryny is now ecclesiastically oriented towards Ukta : to the Catholic parish of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Petrikirche, a subsidiary church of the Mikołajki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . Wygryny can be reached via a side road that runs from Wólka (Dietrichswalde) , crossing Voivodship Road 610 , to the town. The nearest train station is Ruciane-Nida on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line. Until 1945 there was also a rail connection to a railway line leading from Königsberg (Prussia) to Johannisburg , whose section Sensburg – Rudczanny / Niedersee was shut down due to the war. In 2011 Wygryny had 340 inhabitants.  

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1558
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wigrinnen
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Guszianka / Guschienen
4. ↑ Wigrinnen at GenWiki
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
6. ↑ 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. 116
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500
9. ↑ Wykaz sołtysów gminy Ruciane-Nida ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Wieś Wygryny w liczbach