Świdry (Olecko)

Świdry
	Świdry
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	53 ° 55 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '45 "  N , 22 ° 26' 58"  E
Residents :	123 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Dzięgiele Oleckie → Świdry
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Świdry ( German  Schwiddern ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Świdry is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south of the district town of Olecko .

history

The village, called Schwiddern until 1945 , was founded in 1542. In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established Babken District (Kps. Gonsken) ( Babki Gąseckie in Polish ), which - renamed "Babeck District" in 1938 - existed until 1945 and became the Oletzko District (1933 to 1945: Treuburg District) in the administrative district Gumbinnen belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On December 1, 1910, there were 242 residents in Schwiddern. Their number was 246 in 1933 and 213 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, 179 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the village 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 village in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Schwiddern was parish in the parish of the Protestant Church Gonsken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg, Polish Olecko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Świdry belongs to the Protestant parish in Ełk ( German  Lyck ), a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Gąski Catholic parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Świdry can be reached via a rather impassable side street that leads from Dzięgiele Oleckie (Dzingellen , 1938 to 1945 Dingeln) directly into the village. Until 1999 Kijewo (Kiöwen) was the next train station and was on the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk ( German  Lyck – Insterburg ) railway line , which today only operates as far as Olecko .

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, Babken / Babeck district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 66
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484