Zgon

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Zgon
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Zgon (Poland)
Zgon
Zgon
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Piecki
Geographic location : 53 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '54 "  N , 21 ° 23' 22"  E
Residents : 137 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-710
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : DK58 : Olsztynek - Szczytno - Stare Kiełbonki ↔ Ruciane-Nida - Pisz - Szczuczyn
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport
Warsaw Chopin Airport



Zgon ( German Sgonn , 1938-1945 Hirschen ) is a village and Sołectwo in the Gmina Piecki in the Powiat Mrągowski . It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .

location

Zgon is located in the Masurian Lake District on the Baltic ridge . The landscape was shaped by the Fennoscan ice sheet and is a post-glacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine with many channel lakes and rivers. Characteristic of the landscape in this region are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests. The village is located in the middle of the Johannisburger Heide on the southern bank of the Muckersee ( Jezioro Mokre in Polish ). The village lies on the national road 58 , which leads from Olsztynek (Hohenstein) via Szczytno (Ortelsburg) to Pisz (Johannisburg) and on to Szczuczyn . The distance from Zgon to Mrągowo is 27 km, to Piecki 14 km, to Ruciane-Nida 12 km and to Ukta 11 km.

history

Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians ( Galinds ). After Christianization by the Teutonic Order , it belonged to the Teutonic Order and after 1525 to the Duchy of Prussia . Sgonn was founded in 1708 as a casket village in the Kingdom of Prussia (province of East Prussia ). After the Congress of Vienna, which was created to September 1, 1818 Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen in the Province of Prussia . In April 1874 the district of Cruttinnen No. 21 was formed with the rural community of Sgonn.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sgonn belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sgonn, 260 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

In 1938 the Cruttinnen District was renamed the Kruttinnen District. On July 16, 1938, the village name was changed from Sgonn to Hirschen .

During the East Prussian operation , Hirschen was captured by the Red Army at the end of January 1945 and placed under the Soviet command. After the war , Hirschen came to Poland and has been called Zgon ever since . From 1975 to 1978 Zgon was in the Olsztyn Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population development

Zgon at Jezioro Mokre
Village street in Zgon
  • 1845: 045
  • 1867: 216
  • 1905: 346
  • 1910: 369
  • 1933: 382
  • 1939: 372
  • 2011: 137

church

Until 1945 Sgonn was parish in the Protestant Church of Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today the Protestant residents of Zgon also orientate themselves towards Ukta , which is a branch village of the parish Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , while the Catholics are oriented towards the church in Nawiady (Aweyden) in the Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church hold.

Personalities

  • Max Pruss (born September 13, 1891 in Sgonn; † November 28, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main), German aeronaut
  • Johannes Sayk (born September 28, 1923 in Sgonn; † December 4, 2005 in Rostock), German neurologist
  • Igor Newerly (1903–1987), Polish writer; lived and wrote books in Zgon

literature

  • Wilhelm Treude: Sgonn - The chronicle of a Masurian village . Self-published 1985, edition 230 pieces (The book contains a short biography of Max Pruss (Pruss), captain of the "Hindenburg". Place of birth was Sgonn in Masuria. Communicated by the Historical Masurian Association ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Kruttinnen. May 7, 2005, accessed February 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 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. 115
  4. ↑ Ludność gminy Piecki - Sołectwa 2011 (Polish) ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )