Bezledy
Bezledy ( German Beisleiden ) is a village in the north of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the Gmina Bartoszyce (Town Bartenstein ) in the powiat Bartoszycki.
Geographical location
Bezledy is located on the Polish national road 51 ( former German Empire Road 128: Cranz ( Selenogradsk ) Königsberg ( Prussia) ( Kaliningrad ) - Bartenstein ( Bartoszyce ) Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) -Neuhof ( Bugmünde ) ( Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki ) ) and is the border station at the transition point to the Russian highway A 195 in Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area ) at Bagrationowsk ( Prussian Eylau ).
The former rail connection to the East Prussian Southern Railway (Königsberg ( Prussia) ( Kaliningrad ) Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn ) Elk ( Elk ) Prostken ( Prostki ) ) with a stop in the neighboring Glommen ( Głomno ) no longer exists today.
The previously mentioned Beisleide river rises south of Bezledy and opens after 40 kilometers in Russia at Newskoje ( Невское, 1945 United Lauth, before 1934 Lawdt ) in the Frisching ( Prochladnaja ).
History
The once Old Prussian village Beisleiden finds his documentary was first mentioned in the year 1338th However, the entire region has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, which is documented by prehistoric finds. In addition to the former Beisleidener Vorwerk in Great Wallhof (also: United Wollaston, today Polish: Wola ) are located on the Schlossberg remains of an Old Prussian fortification.
The settlement consisted of several Beisleiden free goods with owners like John Pomeneyn and Johann Kracht or Nadraue and Tolmigk. Also a Henry of Biseleyden finds mention. By 1400 the kölmische Well formed from the free goods owned by a Philip of Beisleiden, who gave the place its name. He was a bitter opponent of the Teutonic Order.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the owner of the goods exchanged several times. In 1801 bought the Generallandschaftsrat Ludwig von Oldenburg ( 1778-1843 ), First District Administrator of the Prussian Eylau, possession. In his family, he then remained until 1945. Oldenburg 's family belonged to the nobility of Bremen, emigrated in 1262 to Mecklenburg and one came from there in the 18th century by Prussia.
By 1945, the school location Beisleiden municipality in the district Prussian Eylau in the district of the Prussian province of East Prussia, Königsberg was. Court of jurisdiction was. Bartenstein in In the year 1910 573 inhabitants were counted. Today there are 470, and the village bears the Polish name Bezledy and, with 110 other locations for rural community Bartoszyce in powiat Bartoszycki in the Warmia and Mazury ( Olsztyn Voivodeship 1975-1998 ). The manor house from the 17-18. Century no longer stands.
District Beisleiden
Before 1945, formed Beisleiden with 12 other communities the District Beisleiden. These were:
- Both Oswalde (now Polish: Bodzewo )
- Glamslack ( Głamsławki )
- Great Wallhof (Great Wollaston ) ( Wola )
- Kiss Itten / Glommen ( Kisity / Głomno )
- Small Wallhof (small Wollaston ) ( Wólka )
- Kromargen ( Kromarka )
- Legden ( Lejdy )
- Ludwig gift ( SADKI )
- Minor Witten ( Molwity )
- Sardines
- Stilgen ( Stygligi )
- Zohlen ( Solno )
Church
The pre-1945 predominantly Protestant inhabitants of Beisleiden were part of the 10 km distant parish vicarage Prussian Eylau (now Russian: Bagrationowsk ), the seat of its own church district (originally inspection Bartenstein ) within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union was. In the 19th century in Beisleiden a small chapel was built. The last German clergy until 1945 were the pastor Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Müller and Martin Braun in Prussian Eylau.
Today predominantly Catholic Church members live in Bezledy. The chapel is now bearing the name " St. Maximilian Kolbe ". The place is the parish seat and ( Bartenstein ) belongs to the Dean's Office in the Archdiocese of Warmia Bartoszyce the Polish Catholic Church.
Personality of the place
- Elard of Oldenburg- Januschau ( born March 20, 1855 in Beisleiden ), large landowners, lobbyist and member of the Reichstag († 1937)