Zalesie (Biała Piska)

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Zalesie (Poland)
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Zalesie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 '53 "  N , 22 ° 8' 56"  E
Residents : 152 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Drygały / ext. 667 → Zalesie
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk
train station: Drygały
Next international airport : Danzig



Zalesie ( German  Salleschen , 1938 to 1945 Offenau (Ostpr.) ) 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

Zalesie is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 24 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The place Zalesshenn to 1540 Salesch to 1,579 Sale Schenn after 1785 Szalleschen after 1818 Salen and until 1938 Salle's was in 1472 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut with 30 hooves to Magdeburg Law rights established. The local office was already settled and was called Yenitzen around 1449 .

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 Salleschen was incorporated into the district of Drygallen (from 1938 "District of Drigelsdorf").

358 were registered in Salleschen in 1910; in 1933 there were already 431.

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

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Salle's was for political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names in "Offenau (Ostpr.)" Renamed . The population was 372 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village and the whole of southern East Prussia were transferred to Poland in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name “Zalesie”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt and as such 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 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . The number of inhabitants was 152 in 2011.

Religions

Until 1945 Salleschen was parish in the Protestant Church of Drygallen 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, on the Catholic side, Zalesie belongs to the parish Drygały in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant residents belong to the parish in Biała Piska, a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Salleschen became a school town in 1745.

traffic

Zalesie is located east of Voivodship Road 667 and can be reached directly from Drygały (Drygallen , 1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf) . Drygały is also the nearest train station and is on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1583
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Offenau
  3. ↑ a b c Salleschen / Offenau in family research Sczuka
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Drigelsdorf district
  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. 77
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  9. ^ Wieś Zalesie w liczbach