Żywy

Żywy
	Żywy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 3 '  N , 22 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '30 "  N , 22 ° 2' 8"  E
Residents :	170 (2010)
Postal code :	11-612
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	( Kruklanki -) Żywki - Boćwinka ↔ Kamienna Struga - Jurkowo
	Możdżany - Borki → Żywy
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Żywy ( German  Siewen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Żywy is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Siewen ( Jezioro Żywy in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 27 kilometers to the northwest, and the current district metropolis of Giżycko (Lötzen) is 17 kilometers to the southwest.

history

The village, originally called Sybenn and later also called Groß Sieben , was equipped with an estate and a forestry department and was founded in 1540. Between 1874 and 1945 it was part of the Regulowken District (Regułówka in Polish). This in turn was in "District 1931 Borken Walde " (until 1930 Mosdzehnen renamed, Polish Możdżany) and belonged to the circle Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 a total of 284 inhabitants were registered in Siewen. Their number rose to 294 by 1925, decreased to 265 by 1933, and was 259 in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , Siewen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia , where it is now called "Żywy". The village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( sołectwo in Polish ), which is also responsible for Kamienna Struga (Steinbach) in the association of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Until 1945 Siewen was parish in the Protestant church Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish: Giżycko) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Żywy belongs on the one hand to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , on the other hand to the Protestant parish Giżycko with the branch church in Wydminy (Widminnen) within the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Żywy is located on a side road with little traffic, coming from Kruklanki from Żywki (Siewken) via Boćwinka (Neu Freudenthal) to Kamienna Struga (Steinbach) and to Jurkowo (Jorkowen , 1938 to 1945 Jorken) . In Żywy a lakeshore road leading here from Możdżany (Mosdzehnen , 1930 to 1945 Borkenwalde) and Borki (Borken) ends .

There is no train connection for Żywy.

Individual evidence

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