Gizewo
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Mrągowo | ||
| Gmina : | Sorkwity | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 56 ' N , 21 ° 13' E | ||
| Residents : | 312 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-731 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NMR | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Warpuny → Gizewo | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Gizewo ( German Giesewen , 1938–1945 Giesenau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Sorkwity ( rural community Sorquitten ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).
Geographical location
Gizewo is located in the heart of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 9 kilometers northwest of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ).
history
Local history
The village called Giessewen after 1774, Giesöwen after 1785, Gisewen after 1871 and Giesewen until 1938 was founded in 1573. From 1874 to 1945, it was in the District Burschewen ( Polish Burszewo ) integrated, the - 1938 in the district of Prußhöfen renamed - to Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Giesewen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Giesewen, 440 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.
Giesewen was renamed to Giesenau on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938 for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign appearing place names .
1945 came Giesenau in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish name form Gizewo . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the rural community Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
Population numbers
| year | number |
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| 1818 | 274 |
| 1838 | 473 |
| 1871 | 827 |
| 1885 | 765 |
| 1898 | 702 |
| 1905 | 614 |
| 1910 | 601 |
| 1933 | 481 |
| 1939 | 441 |
| 2011 | 312 |
church
On the church side, Giesewen and Giesenau were aligned to Warpuhnen until 1945 and parish in the Evangelical Church of Warpuhnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Warpuhnen in the then diocese of Warmia . The reference to Warpuny is also given today: to the Protestant parish , which is now cared for by the parish of Sorkwity in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic parish in Warpuny, which is now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia .
traffic
Gizewo can be reached on a side road that leads from Warpuny (Warpuhnen) directly into town. There is no connection to rail traffic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 296
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Giesenau
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Burschewen / Prusshöfen district
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b c Giesewen at GenWiki
- ↑ Wieś Gizewo w liczbach
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 502.