Chostka

Chostka
	Chostka
	Chostka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Mrągowo
Gmina :	Piecki
Geographic location :	53 ° 40 ' N , 21 ° 27' E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '55 " N , 21 ° 27' 8" E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-710 (Rosocha)
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NMR
Economy and Transport
Street :	Rosocha → Chostka
	Krutyński Piecek → Chostka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Chostka ( German Chostka , 1930 to 1945 Walddorf ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Piecki ( German Peitschendorf ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Chostka is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 24 kilometers southeast of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ).

history

The small place, called Choszka after 1823, Choztka around 1885 and Chostka until 1930, was a residential area in the Jägerswalde municipality ( Rosocha in Polish ) until 1945 and thus belonged to the East Prussian district of Sensburg .

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the plebiscite area Allenstein , was one of the Chostka, on 11 July 1920 on the further state belonging to Prussia (and thus Germany) or connection to Poland from. In Chostka, 40 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On October 17, 1930, Chostka was renamed "Walddorf".

In 1945 the place came to Poland with the whole of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of the name "Chostka". Today it is a village within the rural community Piecki (Peitschendorf) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Until 1945 Chostka resp. Walddorf parish in the Protestant Church of Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Chostka belongs to the protestant church in Ukta , a filial community of evangelical parish Mikołajki in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , in addition to the Catholic parish Ukta in the current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Chostka can only be reached by land from Rosocha (Jägerswalde) or Krutyński Piecek (Kruttinnerofen) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1083
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Walddorf
↑ ^a ^b Chostka at GenWiki
↑ 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. 111
↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 19068, p. 500

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1083

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

[wiki-3] Chostka at GenWiki

[4] 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. 111

[5] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 19068, p. 500