Żywki

Żywki
	Żywki
	Żywki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 3 ' N , 21 ° 58' E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '25 " N , 21 ° 57' 38" E
Residents :	193 (2011)
Postal code :	11-612
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	( Kruklanki -) Żywki Małe ↔ Sołtmany - Mazuchówka
	Sucholaski / Kruklin ↔ Żywki Małe
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Żywki ( German Siewken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Żywki is located on the southeast bank of Lake Siewker ( Polish: Jezioro Żywki ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 22 kilometers to the northwest, and to today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) it is 20 kilometers to the southwest.

history

The small formerly East Prussian village called Klein Sieben before 1554 changed its name several times: Neusieben (before 1785), Siwken (after 1785), Adlig Siewken (before 1912) and Siewken (until 1945). In 1785 it was a noble estate and village with 23 fire places, in 1818 there were 18 fire places with 202 inhabitants.

On May 6, 1874, Siewken became the district village, giving its name to a newly established district that originally consisted of three and later only one municipality. It existed until 1945 and was part of the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 the Siewken manor counted 292 inhabitants, in 1925 there were already 416.

On August 17, 1926, the Siewken manor was converted into a rural municipality . The villages of Grunden ( Polish: Grądy Kruklaneckie ), Katzerowken (Kaczorowko), Kruglinner Wiesenhaus, Louisenhof (Żywki Małe) and Wolfsbruch (Wyrzywilki) belonged to it. The rural community had 420 inhabitants in 1933 and 401 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Siewken came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Żywki". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo), which includes Żywki, Żywki Małe (Louisenhof) and Wyrzywilki (Wolfsbruch) . At the same time it is a district of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Siewken District (1874–1945)

The Siewken district existed for more than 70 years. The municipalities belonged to him:

Surname	Polish name	Remarks
New Freudenthal	Boćwinka	after 1885 reclassified to the district of Soltmahnen
Siewken	Żywki
Soltmahnen	Sołtmany	after 1885 reclassified to the district of Soltmahnen
from 1928: founding	Grądy Kruklaneckie	1928 incorporated into Siewken

Due to the structural changes on January 1, 1945, only the municipality of Siewken belonged to the district of the same name.

church

Siewken was parish up to 1945 in the Evangelical Church Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish: Giżycko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Żywki belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish in Giżycko with the branch church in Wydminy (Widminnen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Żywki is on a side street that leads from Kruklanki (Kruglanken) via Żywki Małe (Louisenhof) to Sołtmany (Soltmahnen) and Mazuchówka (Masuchowken , 1938 to 1945 Rodental) . In Żywki a side street ends, which leads from Sucholaski (Sucholasken , 1935 to 1945 Rauschenwalde) or Kuklin (Kruglinnen , 1938 to 1945 Kraukel) to here.

The Polish State Railways named the nearby station, which was no longer used due to the closure of the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa line , with the name “Żywki”. In the period before 1945 it was named after Gansenstein (Polish Brożóka).

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1630
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Siweken
↑ Siewken
^ ^A ^b Rolf Jehke, Siewken district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1630

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Siweken

[3] Siewken

[Jehke-4] A ^b Rolf Jehke, Siewken district

[5] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg

[Rademacher-6] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476