Świdry (Giżycko)

Świdry
	Świdry
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '8 "  N , 21 ° 46' 48"  E
Residents :	183 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Giżycko ↔ Pieczarki - Pozezdrze
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Świdry ( German  Schwiddern ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Świdry is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers north of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The village formerly called Schwiddern was founded in 1554. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Pierkunowen ( Polish Pierkunowo incorporated), which - in 1935 in "District Perkunen" renamed - was and until 1945 the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged .

381 inhabitants were registered in Schwiddern in 1910. Their number decreased to 345 by 1933 and was still 340 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schwiddern belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Schwiddern, 280 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

As a result of the war, Schwiddern came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish name form "Świdry". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place within the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Schwiddern was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Świdry belongs to the parish pw św. Kazimierza Królewicza in Giżycko with the branch church in Pieczonki (Pietzonken , 1930 to 1945 Grünau) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

In 1717 a school was founded in Schwiddern. It was run in a single class until 1945.

traffic

Świdry is located on an insignificant side street that connects the town of Giżycko (Lötzen) with Pieczarki (Pietzarken , Bergensee 1931-1945 ) and Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938-1945 Großgarten) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1269
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schwiddern
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Pierkonowen / Perkunen
5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 81
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492
9. ↑ Schwiddern (district of Lötzen)