Popielno, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Popielno ( German Popiellnen, 1928-1945 Spirding ) is a scoring for community Ruciane -Nida village in southeastern Mazury in Polish Warmia and Mazury, powiat Piski.
The village is situated 22 kilometers northwest of the town Pisz ( German Johannesburg ) on a peninsula on the western shore of Jezioro Sniardwy ( German Spirdingsee ).
History
The village Popielno or Popiellnen was founded in 1694 as a domain. The town's name derives from the Polish Popiół for ashes.
On April 8, 1874, came surrounding the formation of an office district Guszianka from the rural community and the agricultural estates Wigrinnen Diebowko, Guszianka - Forestry, Popiellnen and Warnold, which was initially managed by the Chief Administrator in Guszianka.
On March 30, 1875, the integration was carried out on parts of the Gutsbezirks Guszianka - Forestry in the Gutsbezirk Popiellnen.
From 1898 to 1945 Popiellnen was with his then predominantly Protestant population in the parish of the Church Weissuhnen (now Polish: Wejsuny ) incorporated. She lay in the parish of Johannesburg ( Pisz ) in the province of East Prussia Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Even today, this church is a church of the now numerically small population of Wejsuny. It is run by Pisz from and belongs to the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland. A smaller chapel serves as God's place of employment of the Catholic Church in Poland.
Until 1905 Popiellnen was superior to the governmental district Gumbinnen, then the governmental district Olsztyn.
With a restructuring of the administrative areas of January 1, 1908, the District Guszianka now comprised the rural communities Piasken - Onufrigowen, Rudczanny and Wigrinnen and the estate districts Guszianka - Oberförsterei, Popiellnen and Warnold.
On December 1, 1910 97 residents were registered in Popiellnen.
On September 30, 1928, the Gutsbezirk Popiellnen in the new rural community Spirding was converted. This is also the place in the wake of increasing Eindeutschung Masurian place name got its new name Spirding, which fell on the adjacent Spirdingsee. Occasionally there was also the unofficial place name Spirdingsblick. The exact origin of the name Spirding for lake and location is not fully understood. Presumably, the Old Prussian word spirt for German resist, so an unruly waters existed, brought in at that time settled here Sudovians.
1933 lived according to an official count in Spirding 117 inhabitants.
On February 12, 1936, notified the District Guszianka into Guschianka. Two and a half years later finds again a renaming of the adjacent office district in Guschienen instead.
1939 were recorded in Spirding 121 inhabitants.
By 1945 there were in place a research station of the University of Königsberg.
On 27 January 1945 the Red Army Spirding, the civilian population has just been almost completely evacuated reached. After the end of World War II in 1945 to the German Empire ( East Prussia ) belonging Spirding fell to Poland. The resident population was German, if they had not fled, largely expelled after 1945 and replaced by new residents from other parts of Poland. The place was returned or renamed Popielno.
From 1975 to 1998 belonged to the then Popielno Suwałki Voivodeship, then came 1999 on the newly formed Warmia and Mazury.
The small village has Popielno, emerged from earlier research station of the University of Königsberg, since 1955 a zoological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, where, among other things, beaver, bison and tarpan (wild horses) are bred. In particular, here researched extinct and endangered species, such as on a re- breeding of the aurochs, which became extinct 1400-1500 in what was then East Prussia at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding.
At the Academy has a almost the entire peninsula comprehensive 1,477 -acre nature reserve, where the rare species of animals have their shelter and by leading the only leading by Popielno road.
In 1987, the population of Popielno, which is also closely linked with the Institute located there, with 203 their numerical peak. Then she went back slightly with the political changes in Poland.
Attractions
- German cemetery with graves dating from the 18th and 19th centuries
- Barn from the mid-18th century
- Masurian wooden houses
- Wrought from the early 20th century
Footnotes
- Place of Warmia and Mazury
- Gmina Ruciane -Nida