Gajlówka

Gajlówka
	Gajlówka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Wydminy
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '38 "  N , 22 ° 9' 5"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pietrasze / ext. 655 ↔ Szczecinowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Gajlówka ( German  Gaylowken , 1938–1945 Gailau ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Gajlówka is located in the eastern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 25 kilometers northwest of the former district town of Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) and east of the current district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Before 1945, the place, then called Gaylowken, consisted of several small courtyards and farmsteads. From 1874 to 1945 the small village was incorporated into the Gorlowken District ( Polish Gorłówko ), which - renamed Gorlau District in 1939 - belonged to the Lyck district in the Gumbinnen district (1905–1945 Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1898 to 1945 Gayowken was also included in the Pietraschen registry office (1938–1945 Petersgrund, village; in Polish: Pietrasze ).

In 1910 there were 133 residents registered in Gaylowken. Their number was 104 in 1933. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gaylowken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or to join Poland from. In Gaylowken, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Gaylowken was foreign-sounding place names for political-ideological reasons preventing Gailau renamed. In 1939 the population was only 93.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Gajlówka . Today the place is part of the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Pietrasze and a place in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) , thereby "changed" from the Lyck district to the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then the voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria .

Religions

Until 1945 Gaylowken resp. Gailau parish in the Evangelical Church Orlowen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Gajlówka belongs to the protestant church Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and the parish church of St. Casimir Orłowo in the Diocese of Ełk the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Gajlówka is only a few kilometers south of the voivodship road DW 655 and can be reached via a side road from Pietrasze ( Pietraschen , 1938–1945 Petersgrund , Dorf) in the direction of Szczecinowo (Szczeczynowen , 1925–1945 Steinberg) .

There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gailau
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Gorlowken / Gorlau district
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Gaylowken
4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
5. ^ ^{A b} 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. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 83
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.