Giże (Ełk)

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Giże (Poland)
Giże
Giże
Basic data
State : Poland
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 47 '  N , 22 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '28 "  N , 22 ° 30' 46"  E
Residents : 35 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-301
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Kałęczyny → Giże
Laski Małe - Brodowo → Giże
Rail route : Ełk – Turowo railway line of Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa (tourist traffic)
Railway station: Kałęczyny
Next international airport : Danzig



Giże ( German  Giesen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Giże is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 11 kilometers south-east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

In 1508 the village of Giesen , comprising several small farms and homesteads, was founded. From 1874 to 1945, it was in the District Wischniewen ( Polish Wiśniowo Ełckie ) incorporated, which - in 1938 District Kölmersdorf renamed - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Giesen had 98 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 71 by 1933 and was still 61 in 1939. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Giesen belonged, approved on July 11, 1920 that East Prussia would continue to belong to the state (and thus Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Giesen, 40 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, Giesen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has been using the Polish form of name Giże . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), which also includes the neighboring town of Brodowo (Brodowen , 1938–1945 Broden) , and is therefore a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Giesen was parish in the Evangelical Church Wischniewen (1938-1945 Kölmersdorf , Polish Wiśniowo Ełckie ) in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Ełk) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Giże belongs to the Catholic parish Wiśniowo Ełckie in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk, a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Giże can be reached from Kałęczyny ( German  Kallenczynnen , 1938–1945 Lenzendorf ) via a side street. In addition, a land route leads from Laski Małe ( German  Klein Lasken ) via Brodowo (Brodowen , 1938–1945 Broden) to Giże.

The nearest train station is Kałęczyny on the Ełk – Turowo railway line (Lyck - Thurowen / Auersberg) , which is operated by Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa - the former Lycker Kleinbahnen - as a historical narrow-gauge railway for tourists .

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. 296
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Giesen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Wischniewen / Kölmersdorf
  5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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).
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494.
  10. ↑ Giesen (District of Lyck)
  11. ↑ Parafia Wśniowo Ełckie in the Diocese of Elk