Lejdy

Lejdy ( German Legden ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the Gmina Bartoszyce (Town Bartenstein ) in Bartoszycki powiat ( county Bartenstein ).

Geographical location

Lejdy is located on the Beisleide, two kilometers south of the Russian-Polish border north-east of the former railway line Prussian Eylau (now Russian: Bagrationowsk ) and Bartenstein (now Polish: Bartoszyce ), a section of the former East Prussian Southern Railway. The former county town Bagrationowsk is nine, the current county metropolis Bartoszyce ten kilometers away.

The village can be reached via a spur road that Krajowa 51 ( former German Empire Road 128) branches off at Bezledy ( Beisleiden ) from the Polish Droga. A rail link no longer exists, since the railway line to the next station Glommen (now Polish: Głomno ) was taken out of service.

History

Lejdy was first documented in 1341. In the following years, form name forms as Leyden ( 1341 ), Leiden ( before 1595 ), Loyden (before 1785), and until 1945 Legden. On May 7, 1874 Legden part of the administrative district Beisleiden newly formed was (Polish: Bezledy ), the (now Russian: Bagrationowsk ) to 1945 to the district Prussian Eylau was in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia. On December 1, 1910 67 residents were registered in Legden.

On September 30, 1928, the rural community and the Legden estate districts Beisleiden ( Bezledy ) and small wolla closed ( Wólka ) together with the new rural community Legden. The population grew until 1933 to 568 in 1939 and was still 554

As a result of the Second World War came Legden 1945 Poland and received the Polish name " Lejdy ".

The village now belongs to the rural community in Bartoszyce powiat Bartoszycki in the Warmia and Mazury (1975 to 1998 Olsztyn voivodeship ).

Church

Before 1945, the population was almost exclusively Protestant denomination Legden. The place was in the parish Prussian Eylau (Russian: Bagrationowsk ) and the parish lay in the parish of Prussian Eylau in East Prussia Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Today the population is majority Lejdys Catholic Christian and belongs to the parish Bezledy within the Dean's Office in the Archdiocese of Warmia Bartoszyce of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members are part of the church community in Bartoszyce, which is a branch church of the parish in Kętrzyn and belongs to the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.

References

Footnotes

  • Place of Warmia and Mazury
  • Gmina Bartoszyce
Voivodeship (Poland) Bartoszyce County Vehicle registration plates of Poland Amtsbezirk History of the term "Catholic" Roman Catholicism in Poland Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
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