Baytkowo

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Baytkowo
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Bajtkowo (Poland)
Baytkowo
Baytkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 45 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '30 "  N , 22 ° 15' 36"  E
Residents : 115 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 667 : Nowa Wieś Ełcka / DK 65 ↔ Drygały - Biała Piska / DK 58
Ruska Wieś / DK 16 - Mostołty → Bajtkowo
Rail route : PKP line 219: Olsztyn – Ełk
Next international airport : Danzig



Bajtkowo ( German  Baitkowen , 1938-1945 Baitenberg ) is a village in the Polish Warmia and Mazury , which for Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Elk ) in Powiat Ełcki (county Elk belongs).

Geographical location

Bajtkowo is located on the south bank of the Great Baitkowen Lake (1938-1945 Great Baitenberg Lake , Polish Jezioro Bajtkowskie ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The establishment of the time Baykau after 1495 Baytken after 1818 Baidtkowen and until 1938 Baitkowen village mentioned took place in 1493 when the Order Grand Master John of depths the Paul Grabowski transferred 40 hooves for work conscientious help. There was a great estate in the village. On May 27, 1874 Baitkowen office Village and thus its name to an office district, which - renamed on 15 November 1938 in "District Baitenberg" - to 1945 and county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged . In 1910 Baitkowen had 225 inhabitants as an estate district .

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Baitkowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Baitkowen, 160 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the Baitkowen manor was converted into a rural community . The inhabitants had risen to 244 to 1933 and amounted to 1939 - the village was in "Baitenberg" on June 3, 1938 renamed been - to a mere 209th

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Bajtkowo". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

District of Baitkowen / Baitenberg (1874–1945)

The Baitkowen district (from 1938: Baitenberg district) included 15 villages when it was established. In the end there were twelve due to structural changes:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Remarks
Baitkowen Baitenberg Baytkowo
Biallojohann (from 1935 :)
Weißhagen		 Białojany
Specials incorporated into Mostolten between 1888 and 1898
Ceremonies (from 1929 :)
Dorntal		 Ciernie
Karbowsken Siegersfeld Karbowskie
Mostolten Mostołty
Niekrassen Krassau Niekrasy
Romanken Maihof (East Pr.) Romanki
Rostken
(parish of Baitkowen) 		Waiblingen (East Pr.) Rostki Bajtkowskie
Rymken Belt Rymki 1928 incorporated into Sdeden
Sniff Snap Śniepie
South Stettenbach Zdedy
Sutzken (from 1934 :)
Morgengrund		 Suczki
Talks Talki
Claws Trabenau Tracze 1928 incorporated into Karbowsken

On January 1, 1945, the district of Baitenberg formed the following places: Baitenberg, Dorntal, Krassau, Maihof, Morgengrund, Mostolten, Schnippen, Siegersfeld, Stettenbach, Talken, Waiblingen and Weißhagen.

Religions

Church in Bajtkowo from the southeast

Church building

The Baitkowener Church was consecrated in 1895. It is a neo-Gothic building with an east apse and sacristy building . Until 1945 it was the parish church of the Protestant parish of Baitkowen. Today it is the worship center of the Roman Catholic parish Bajtkowo and bears the name Kościół Matki Bożej Różańcowej ( German  Church of the Mother of God Rosary ).

Parish

Evangelical

Baitkowen was a Protestant church village from 1891. In 1925 the parish had a total of 2770 parishioners who lived in more than twenty villages, towns and places of residence. The parish belonged to the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

After 1945, the evacuation and expulsion of the local population caused the parish to perish. The now living in Bajtkowo few evangelical church members belong to the Church community in Elk, a filial community of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannesburg ) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

The Catholics living in Baitkowen before 1945 were parish in the Church of St. Adalbert in the Diocese of Warmia . Due to the resettlement of Polish citizens, especially from eastern Poland, it was possible to found a Catholic community in Bajtkowo, which from 1946 onwards used the previously Protestant church as its church. Since 1970 there has been a separate Roman Catholic parish here within the Deanery Ełk - Matki Bożej Fatimskiej in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Bajtkowo train station

Bajtkowo is conveniently located on Voivodship Road 667 , which connects the two regions of Ełk (Lyck) and Pisz (Johannisburg) .

Bajtkowo is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line, which is operated as line 219 by the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Web links

Commons : Bajtkowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 11
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Baitenberg
  4. ^ Ruska Wieś - Reuschendorf, Bajtkowo - Baitkowen / Baitenberg
  5. ^ A b Rolf Jehke: District Baitkowen / Baitenberg
  6. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
  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. 82
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 123.
  10. ↑ a b Parafia Bajtkowo
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
  12. ↑ Baitkowen