Boże Małe

Boże Małe ( German Waldhausen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the gmina Mrągowo (Town Sensburg) in powiat Mrągowo ( Sensburg ).

Geographical location

Boże Małe located ten kilometers northeast of the county town Mrągowo (Sensburg ) on a side road that leads Szestno ( Seehesten ) in the province road 591 about Wyszembork ( White Castle ) to Szczerzbowo ( Talhausen ) and Słabowo ( Slabowen, 1928-1945 Long Meadow ). Until 1966 Wyszembork was the next station on the railway line from Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) to Mrągowo, which was operated until 1945 by the Rastenburger small railways, but is now abandoned.

History

The former estate village was founded in 1841 and was known before 1871 Small Bosemb. In 1874, Waldhausen was in the newly created District White Castle (now Polish: Wyszembork ) incorporated, which the district Sensburg in the district Gumbinnen (now Russian: Gusev ), from 1905 to 1945 in the district of Olsztyn (now Polish: Olsztyn ) Prussian, in the East Prussia province belonged. In 1910, Waldhausen counted 47 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928 Waldhausen lost its independence and became part of the rural community of White Castle. She was called from 1940 officially " White Castle ( East Prussia )"; accordingly, the District has been renamed.

In consequence of the war Waldhausen 1945, with the southern East Prussia to Poland and was called " Boże Małe ". The village is today a district of Gmina Mrągowo (Town Sensburg) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg ) of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 voivodeship Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ) ). Boże Małe is in the mayor's office Boże ( Bosemb, 1938-1945 buses ) incorporated.

Church

Before 1945, a predominantly Protestant population lived in Waldhausen. The village was in the parish Seehesten (now Polish: Szestno ) the parish, the church to Sensburg (now Polish: Mrągowo ) belonged to the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Today the population of Boże Małe is almost exclusively Catholic. The former evangelical church in Seehesten and today's Catholic Church in Szestno is the competent parish church, now the dean's office in the archdiocese of Warmia Mrągowo I of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members now belong to a parish in the Diocese of Masuria Mrągowo in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland.

Footnotes

  • Place of Warmia and Mazury
  • Gmina Mrągowo
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