Gierłoż (Kętrzyn)

Gierłoż
	Gierłoż
	Gierłoż
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Kętrzyn
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 ' N , 21 ° 30' E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '0 " N , 21 ° 30' 0" E
Residents :	24 (2000)
Postal code :	11-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Danzig
	Kaliningrad
	; ;

Former Good and gardens, then officers' mess of the Air Force , now a hotel

Gierłoż (German Görlitz ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Kętrzyn (rural community Rastenburg ) and is administratively assigned to the Schulzenamt Czerniki .

geography

The village is located in northern Poland, about 30 kilometers south of the border with Kaliningrad Oblast in the former German East Prussia . Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) is about eight kilometers to the west.

history

The village was laid out in 1353 by Commander Wolfgang von Sauer . In the midst of moors and lakes, von Sauer set up a hunting estate here, with which the nearby fortress of the Teutonic Order in Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) was supplied with game. When the plague raged in Prussia in 1710 , seven people died in the still small town of Görlitz.

In 1907 it was connected to the rail network. After the First World War , the village was a popular destination for the residents of Rastenburg. This is how weekend houses , restaurants and guest houses were built here . In 1940, during the Second World War , work began on the Wolfsschanze headquarters in the immediate vicinity of the village . In January 1945 the Red Army marched into the village. The remains of Wolfsschanze were made accessible to tourists in 1959 . Gierłoż was assigned to the Schulzenamt Czerniki in 1973 .

In 1785 there were four houses in the village. In 1817 there were three in which 18 people lived. In 1970 48 people lived here, in 2000 there were 24.

Culture and sights

Park miniature Warmii i Mazur
Ruins of Wolfsschanze
the lakes Mój and Siercze

traffic

The village is on a side road that joins Voivodship Road 592 about six kilometers southeast . The district town of Kętrzyn can also be reached via this. Gierłoż is a train station on the Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo railway, which is still used today for tourist purposes .

The nearest international airport in Poland is Gdansk Lech Wałęsa Airport , around 200 kilometers away. The geographically closer airport is Kaliningrad Airport, around 90 kilometers north in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad .

literature

Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda u. a .: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 174-175, 320 (Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur) .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Tadeusz Swat, 1978, p. 174.
^ Tadeusz Swat, 1978, p. 175.
^ Robert Skórka: Gierłoż. In: gminaketrzyn.pl. April 27, 2006, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved November 7, 2018 (Polish).

[1] Tadeusz Swat, 1978, p. 174.

[2] Tadeusz Swat, 1978, p. 175.

[3] Robert Skórka: Gierłoż. In: gminaketrzyn.pl. April 27, 2006, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved November 7, 2018 (Polish).