Żuławki

Żuławki ( German Fürstenwerder ) is a village and mayor's office with about 680 inhabitants in the Polish community Stegna, which belongs to the powiat Nowodworski in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The place is located in the Vistula River Delta on the Szkarpawa ( Elbląg Vistula ) about 20 km east of the city of Gdansk.

Fürstenwerder was until 1920 the Prussian province of West Prussia, then from 1920 to 1939 the Free State of Danzig and after its incorporation into the Greater German Reich at the beginning of World War II from 1939 to 1945 to Danzig- West Prussia. After the war ended in 1945 the city came under Polish administration and renamed Żuławki. The German inhabitants were expelled.

At the time of belonging to Prussia, there were Fürstenwerder a Catholic, a Protestant and a Mennonite church. Since the 18th century there was a emerged from Dutch immigrants Mennonite congregation, whose church burned down in 1990.

Get is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a neo-Gothic brick building with roof riders of 1840/1841, consecrated on October 3, 1841.

References

  • History of Fürstenwerder

Itemization

  • Place of Pomeranian Voivodeship
  • Gmina Stegna
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