Piasutno

Piasutno
Village
Piasutno
Coordinates: 53°36′N 21°13′E / 53.600°N 21.217°E / 53.600; 21.217
Country Poland Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
County Szczytno
Gmina Świętajno

Piasutno [pjaˈsutnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świętajno, within Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Świętajno, 16 km (10 mi) east of Szczytno, and 52 km (32 mi) south-east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

Before 1945, the village was in Germany (East Prussia) and known as Seenwalde. After the East Prussian plebiscite of 1920, which was largely boycotted by ethnic Poles, the area became part of the Weimar Republic and later Nazi Germany. Following World War II, the territory changed hands from Nazi Germany to restored Poland.

It was the location of the first private Polish school in Masuria, founded in 1931 by Jan Boenigk, which immediately resulted in German attempts to liquidate it.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ Ruch polski na Warmii, Mazurach i Powiślu w latach 1920-1939, page 187, 1973, Wojciech Wrzesiński, 1973


Coordinates: 53°36′N 21°13′E / 53.600°N 21.217°E / 53.600; 21.217

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