Gant (Piecki)

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Gant (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Piecki
Geographic location : 53 ° 43 '  N , 21 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '13 "  N , 21 ° 12' 26"  E
Residents : 96 (2011)
Postal code : 11-710
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Dłużec - Gajne → Gant
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Gant ( German  Ganthen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Piecki ( German  Peitschendorf ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Gant is located northwest of Lake Ganther ( Polish Jezioro Gant ) in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

Entrance to Gant
House in Gant

history

The village, named Ganten after 1818 , had a forestry department until 1945 , which was subordinate to the Pfeilswalde state forest. In 1874 it was incorporated into the Gollingen district ( Polish : Goleń ), which belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (1905–1945 Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Already before 1908 Ganthen was reclassified to the Borowen district , which - renamed the Prausken district in 1938 - existed until 1945 and also belonged to the Sensburg district.

In 1910 Ganthen had 312 inhabitants. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Ganthen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Ganthen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928, Ganthen expanded to include the neighboring manor districts of Bienken ( Polish : Bieńki ) and Gaynen (Gajne) , which were incorporated.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Ganthen was also affected and received the Polish form of the name Gant . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the community of Piecki (Peitschendorf) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Gant had 96 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Ganthen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Aweyden in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church of Sensburg in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Gant belongs to the evangelical parish Nawiady , a branch parish of the parish Mrągowo in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, there is a separate church in Gant, which is subordinate to the parish Grabowo (Grabowen , 1938–1945 Grabenhof) in today's Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Gant is located away from the traffic at the end of a side road, some of which is only a country road, which leads from Dłużec (Langendorf) via Gajne (Gaynen) directly into the village. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Commons : Gant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 251
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Ganthen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Gollingen
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Borowen / Prausken
  5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Sensburg
  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. 112
  7. ↑ a b c Ganthen at GenWiki
  8. ↑ Wieś Gant w liczbach