Cisy (Prostki)

Cisy
	Cisy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 46 '  N , 22 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '56 "  N , 22 ° 34' 34"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Zawady-Tworki / 1872N– Krzywe ↔ Sypitki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Cisy ( German  Cziessen , 1908-1945 Seeheim ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Cisy on the west bank of the Jezioro Krzywe (Krzywener See , 1907-1945 Rundfließer See) is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers south-east of the district town Ełk (Lyck) .

history

In 1435 the Plachten , before 1785 Czichen , after 1818 Czissen , after 1898 Cziessen , also called Czießen , was founded. It consisted only of a few small homesteads. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was in the District Sawadden integrated, the - 1906 in the district of Sypittken and 1938 in District Four bridges to - renamed county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On January 22, 1908, Cziessen was renamed Seeheim .

On December 1, 1910, 28 residents were registered in the small village. Their number rose slightly to 32 by 1933 and was still 30 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Seeheim belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Seeheim, 20 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Seeheim came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name Cisy . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Prostki (rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1904 Cziessen was in the Protestant Church Pissanitzen , then in the Church Wischniewen (1938-1945 Kölmersdorf , Polish Wiśniowo Ełckie ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Polish Ełk ) parish in the diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Cisy belongs to the parish in Wiśniowo Ełckie with the branch church in Sypitki in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Cisy is on a side road that connects Zawady-Tworki (Sawadden , 1938–1945 Grenzwacht) and Krzywe (Krzywen , 1907–1945 Rundfließ) with Sypitki (Sypittken , 1938–1945 Vierbrücken) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 167
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Seeheim
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Sawadden / Sypittken / Vierbrücken
4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : Self-determination for East Germany - A documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 87.
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 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. 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494.
9. ↑ Czießen