Giętkie

Giętkie
	Giętkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '39 "  N , 21 ° 58' 11"  E
Residents :	45 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kaliszki / DK 58 - Orłowo → Giętkie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Giętkie ( German  Gentken ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Giętkie is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The order 1471 Gomczicken after 1471 Gentczicken after 1540 Gencken and after 1818 Jentken village called was in 1445 as Freigut with 30 hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established.

The village belonged to the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established district of Ruhden .

In 1910 there were 157 residents registered in Gentken. Their number rose to 185 by 1933 and was 181 in 1939.

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

As a result of the war, the entire southern East Prussia came to Poland in 1945 , including the village of Gentken, which received the Polish form of name Giętkie . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the city and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then the Voivodeship Warmia- Masuria belonging. In 2011 Giętkie had 45 inhabitants.

Religions

Until 1945 Gentken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Bialla in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Giętkie belongs to the Catholic side of the parish Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents also stick to Biała Piska, whose parish is a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Giętkie is located on a side road that branches off from state road 58 at Kaliszki (Kallischken , 1938–1945 Flockau) and leads to Giętkie.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 296
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gentken
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gentken at genealogy Sczuka
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District of Ruhden
5. ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Johannisburg
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. ↑ 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. 74.
8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
9. ↑ Wieś Giętkie w liczbach