Żegoty

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Zegoty ( German Siegfried Walde , formerly Siebert Walde , Seubertswalde and Soubertswalde ) is a village in the country Kiwity in lidzbark county of Polish Warmia-Mazury .

Geographical location

The village is located in the former East Prussia , about 13 kilometers east of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 40 kilometers northeast of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ). The Simser flows east of the village .

history

Village church, rebuilt in 1606 after a fire

In the 13th century the village belonged to the domain of the Teutonic Order . After the division of the Teutonic Order State of Prussia in the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the village with the Duchy of Warmia came to the autonomous Prussian Royal Share , which had voluntarily submitted to the suzerainty of the Polish crown. In the course of the reunification of East and West Prussia in 1772, Siegfriedswalde came to the Kingdom of Prussia .

In 1789 Siegfriedswalde is referred to as a royal village with 74 fireplaces (households), the church of which is a branch of Seeburg .

Until 1945 the village belonged to Siegfried forest district Heilsberg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia of the German Reich .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, the place under the name Żegoty became part of the People's Republic of Poland together with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia in the summer of 1945 according to the Potsdam Agreement . Afterwards the immigration of the Polish population began. As far as the local villagers had not fled, they were in the aftermath of Siegfried Walde sold .

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year Residents Remarks
1816 443
1858 647 including a Protestant person and 645 Catholics
1871 700 including 900 Protestants and 150 Jews
1910 710
1933 739
1939 740

Parish

Until 1945, the predominantly Catholic inhabitants of Siegfriedswalde belonged to the Seeburg parish in the Diocese of Warmia , while the Protestant part of the population was assigned to the Heilsberg parish in the Braunsberg parish within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

The local Catholic church members now belong to the Lidzbark Warmiński deanery in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members today belong to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland .

Web links

Commons : Żegoty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I: Topography of East Prussia . Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the East Prussian Cammer Department , p. 186.
  2. ↑ a b Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 4: P – S , Halle 1823, p. 317.
  3. ↑ Monumenta Historiae Warmiensis or collection of sources on the history of Warmia . Volume 1, Mainz 1860, p. 433, footnote 232.
  4. ↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 111, item 131.
  5. ^ Gustav Neumann: Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 19, item 14.
  6. ↑ http://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/heilsberg.htm
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heilsberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′  N , 20 ° 41 ′  E