Czyprki (Prostki)

Czyprki
	Czyprki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '27 "  N , 22 ° 11' 45"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-326
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pogorzel Wielka / ext. 667 ↔ Jebramki - Rożyńsk Wielki / 1678N u. 1921N
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Czyprki [ ˈt͡ʂɨprki ] ( German  Czyprken , 1930-1945 Kolbitz ) 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

Czyprki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 27 kilometers northeast of the district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) and 18 kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small, about 1540 Czypricken after 1664 Ziprken after 1785 Zyprken and until 1930 Czyprken called village was founded. 1840 From 1874 to 1945, it was in the District Monthen ( Polish Monety incorporated). He belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 129 residents were registered in Czyprken.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Czyprken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Czyprken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On July 28, 1930, Czyprken was renamed Kolbitz . The population rose to 156 by 1933 and was 141 in 1939.

During the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Czyprki . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the community of Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Czyprken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Groß Rosinsko (1938-1945 Großrosen , Polish Rożyńsk Wielki ) in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Czyprki belongs to the parish in Rożyńsk Wielki in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parishes of Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) and Ełk (Lyck) , both sub- parishes of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Czyprki is located south of the Voivodship Road 667 and can be reached from Pogorzel Wielka (Groß Pogorzellen , 1907–1930 Groß Brennen , 1930–1945 Brennen) via Jebramki (Jebrammen , 1938–1945 Bachort) . There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 201
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kolbitz
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Monethen
4. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Johannisburg
5. ↑ 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. 73.
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.