Gajewo (Giżycko)

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Gajewo (Poland)
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Gajewo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '3 "  N , 21 ° 47' 3"  E
Residents : 596 (March 31, 2011)
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



Gajewo ( German  Grünhof ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Idyll in the city forest of Giżycko near Gajewo (Grünhof)

Geographical location

Gajewo is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is a suburb of the city of Giżycko (Lötzen) , in the northeast of which it is - surrounded by the more than 300 hectares of " Las Miejski koło Giżycka" (Lötzen City Forest) . The Giżycko city center is just under two kilometers away.

history

In 1837 the residential area, then called dismantling Lötzen , was founded within the township (from 1934: "City") Lötzen. On December 24, 1872 the village was renamed Grünhof . In 1905 there were 43 residents here.

In war due to the small village of 1945 came with the city of Giżycko and the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish name Gajewo . Today the place forms a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) in the association of Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Grünhof was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of 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 Gajewo belongs to the Evangelical Parish Church Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Parish Church of St. Anna (Kościół św. Anny) in Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Gajewo by the traffic-significant Polish extends national road DK 63 (earlier German National Highway 131 ), the Polish-Russian border at Perły (Perlswalde) with the Polish-Belarus border at Sławatycze connects and by two provinces leads. The nearest train station is Giżycko Town Station on State Railroad 38 Głomno – Białystok .

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. 250
  3. ↑ a b c Grünhof (Ksp. Lötzen)
  4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.