Bystry (Giżycko)

Bystry
	Bystry
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 21 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '24 "  N , 21 ° 48' 23"  E
Residents :	1012 (2009)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo - Giżycko ↔ Pisz - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Giżycko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Bystry ( German  Biestern ) is a large village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural municipality of Lötzen in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Bystry is located on the eastern shore of Lake Löwentin ( Jezioro Niegocin in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , three kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

In the manor village founded in 1481, which was named in 1785 as a " köllmisches estate with five fireplaces ", and in 1818 as the same with a water mill with three fireplaces and 28 souls. In 1874 the estate district Biestern came to the newly established administrative district Sulimmen , which existed until 1945 and belonged to the district Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905–1945 administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 the Biestern manor had 47 inhabitants. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Biestern belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Biestern 40 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote. On October 17, 1928, the village lost its independence when it was incorporated into the municipality (from 1934 city) Lötzen (Polish Giżycko).

As a result of the war, Biestern came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Bystry . Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a place within the association of Gmina Giżycko (rural municipality Lötzen ) in powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945 Biestern was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Parish Church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Bystry belongs to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, a separate parish was established in Bystry , which has existed since 1990 and is dedicated to Hedwig von Anjou ( Jadwiga Andegaweńska in Polish ) and maintains a subsidiary parish in Upałty Małe (Klein Upalten) . It belongs to the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Bystry is located on the Polish national road DK 63 (formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ), which is important for traffic and crosses the north-eastern part of Poland and connects the Polish-Russian border with the Polish-Belarusian border. The nearest train station is the Giżycko City Railway Station on the State Railway Line 38 Głomno – Białystok .

Personalities

• Engelhardt Ludwig Stach von Goltzheim (1768–1837), Prussian major general

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 128
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Biestern
3. ↑ ^{a b} beasts
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Sulimmen
5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Lötzen district
6. ↑ 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. 79
7. ^ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
8. ↑ Parafia Bystry ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.