Opaleniec is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Chorzele
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Gmina Chorzele is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Chorzele, which lies approximately north of Przasnysz and north of Warsaw.
The ...
, within
Przasnysz County
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Przasnysz County ( pl, powiat przasnyski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local governmen ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...
, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately north of
Chorzele
Chorzele is a town in Przasnysz County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, on the Orzyc River.
As of December 2021, the town has a population of 3,047.
The town is crossed by the national road No. 57 Bartoszyce - Pułtusk and provincial roads 61 ...
, north of
Przasnysz
Przasnysz (; yi, פראשניץ, russian: Прасныш) is a town in north-central Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodship, about 110 km north of Warsaw and about 115 km south of Olsztyn, it is the capital of Przasnysz County. It h ...
, and north of
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
.
History
The village existed in 1550 and was so-called church village. Before
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, border markets were held twice a year in Opaleniec. During the
interwar period
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, near Opaleniec, a
German-Polish border German Polish or Polish German may refer to:
* German–Polish relations
*German minority in Poland
*Polish minority in Germany
Poles in Germany are the second largest Polish diaspora (''Polonia'') in the world and the biggest in Europe. Estimate ...
ran (Opaleniec / Opalenietz was in
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
), there was a customs office in the village.
[Bałdowski, Jan (1977) ''Warmia i Mazury, mały przewodnik'', Sport and Tourism Publishing House Warsaw, pp. 162-163]
Notable residents
*
Emil Badorrek (1910–1944), German
Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...
pilot
References
Villages in Przasnysz County
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