Giże (Świętajno)

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Giże
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Giże (Poland)
Giże
Giże
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 54 ° 0 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '38 "  N , 22 ° 23' 12"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-411
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Olecko / DK 65 - Rosochackie ↔ Rogowszczyzna - Świętajno
Gąski / DK 65 - Kukówko - Dudki → Giże
Świętajno - Orzechówko - Giże → Giże
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Giże ( German  Giesen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Giże is located in the eastern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 9 kilometers southwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1933-1945 Treuburg) .

The village of Giże , which already belongs to the Gmina Olecko and belongs to the Gmina Olecko, borders the place in the north , for which no former German name and no historical connection is documented.

history

The small village called Giesen until 1945 was founded in 1553. In 1874 it came to the Orzechowken district ( Orzechówko in Polish ), which was dissolved before 1908, so that Giesen was reclassified to the Schwentainen district (Świętajno in Polish). Both districts belonged to the Oletzko district (1933–1945 Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Giesen had 654 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 587 by 1933 and was still 524 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Giesen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Giesen, 392 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Giesen came to Poland in 1945, along with all of southern East Prussia , and since then has borne the Polish form of name Giże . The place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and forms a place in the network of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

Religions

Until 1945 Giesen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

For their Giże the nearest Protestant church is in Wydminy (Wydminy) , a filial community of the parish Giżycko (Giżycko) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , while the Catholic church in Świętajno (Schwentainen) Giże is closest. It belongs to the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Giże can be reached from Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) as well as from Gąski (Gonsken , 1938–1945 Herzogskirchen) via the Polish state road DK 65 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 132 ) . Also connects a side road Świętajno with Giże - with a "trip" about the same and Gmina Olecko belonging place Giże .

Between 1911 and 1945 Giesen was a train station on the Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg - Schwentainen ( Polish Olecko – Świętajno ) railway , which was operated by the Oletzkoer Kleinbahnen (Treuburger Kleinbahnen) and was abandoned due to the war.

Personalities

  • Erich Lepkowski (1919–1975), German officer, parachutist and record holder in night parachuting
  • Hans Sieg (born May 24, 1930 in Giesen), Major General of the National People's Army of the GDR

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 296
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Giesen
  3. ^ A b Rolf Jehke: Orzechowken / Schwentainen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ 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. 64.
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.