Gmina Giżycko

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Gmina Giżycko
Coat of arms of Gmina Giżycko
Gmina Giżycko (Poland)
Gmina Giżycko
Gmina Giżycko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycki
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '24 "  N , 21 ° 45' 32"  E
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 59 : Rozogi - Mrągowo → Giżycko
DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Pisz - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
DW 655 : Rutka-Tartak - Suwałki - Olecko - Kąp (- Giżycko )
Rail route : PKP line 38: Korsze – Ełk – Białystok
Next international airport : Danzig
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 40 localities
27 school authorities
Surface: 289.76 km²
Residents: 8464
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 29 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2806042
Administration (as of 2016)
Wójt : Marek Jasudowicz
Address: ul. Mickiewicza 33
11-500 Giżycko
Website : www.ugg.pl



The Gmina wiejska Giżycko ( German  rural municipality Lötzen ) is a rural municipality in the powiat Giżycki . It belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship in the former East Prussia , which is now part of Poland .

geography

The seat of the 289.76 square kilometer municipality with 8464 inhabitants is the city of Giżycko , which is not part of the municipality itself. The community comprises 27 school offices with 40 localities.

Its area corresponds to 25.9% of the area of ​​the Giżycki powiat . 45.5% of the community area is used for agriculture, 15.9% is forest and 27.3% is water.

Gmina Giżycko, together with the rural communities of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) , Miłki (Milken) and Wydminy (Widminnen) , together with the urban municipality of Giżycko and the urban and rural municipality of Ryn (Rhine), make up the powiat Giżycki. From 1975 to 1998 Gmina belonged to the Suwałki Voivodeship .

Neighboring municipalities to the rural municipality of Giżycko are:

  • in the Giżycki powiat : Giżycko municipality, Ryn municipality and rural municipality, and Kruklanki, Miłki and Wydminy rural municipalities
  • in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ): the rural community Kętrzyn (Rastenburg)
  • in the powiat Węgorzewski (district of Angerburg ): the urban and rural community Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 large garden) .

Community structure

The following places belong to the rural community ( historical / German names until 1945 , see also list of German names of Polish places ):

Schulzenämter

Other localities

church

Roman Catholic

The vast majority of the population in the Gmina Giżycko professes the Roman Catholic Church . In the municipality there are three parish churches and two subsidiary churches , which belong to one of the two deanery districts Giżycko in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland :

  • Deanery Giżycko - św. Krzystofa:
    • Bystry (beasts)
    • Pieczonki (Pietzonken , 1930 to 1945 Grüntal) in the parish of św. Kazimierza Królewicza in the city of Giżycko
  • Deanery Giżycko - św. Szczepana Męczennika:
    • Doba (Doben) in the parish of Kamionki
    • Kamionki (Kamionken , 1928 to 1945 Steintal)
    • Wilkasy (Willkassen , 1928 to 1945 Wolfsee) .

Evangelical

There is no Protestant church in the parish itself and very few Protestant church members live there. The center of worship is the Evangelical Parish Church in the Giżycko town. It belongs to the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Street

The municipal area is criss-crossed by a narrow network of roads, through which the individual places are connected with each other. But the supraregional connection with state and voivodship roads is also ideal:

rail

Numerous railway lines once ran through the municipality, most of which were discontinued after 1945 due to the war. Only the former line connecting Königsberg (Prussia) with Brest has been preserved, although it is shortened and only runs on Polish territory: the Głomno – Białystok railway line , which today is only operated for freight traffic between Głomno (Glommen) and Korsze (Korschen) . Over 235 kilometers it connects important regions of the two Voivodeships of Warmia-Masuria and Podlasie . With the Sterławki Małe (Klein Stürlack) stop , the municipality has a direct connection to the railway line.

air

The connection to air traffic is only possible via Gdansk Airport , which can only be reached by road or rail after a long journey.

literature

  • Max Meyhöfer : The Lötzen district. An East Prussian homeland book. Holzner, Würzburg 1961 ( East German contributions from the Göttingen Working Group 20, ISSN  0474-8204 ), ( Göttingen Working Group Publication 247), (with many facts and figures, but politically more as a contemporary document).

Web links

Commons : Gmina Giżycko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 297
  2. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Antonowen, Antonsdorf, Antonowo , in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  4. ^ Bogatzko, Rainfeld, Bogacko , in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  5. Historical measuring table sheets (topographic maps) from Wyszukane , 1934 and 1944
  6. ^ Bogatzewen, Reichensee, Bogaczewo
  7. ^ Gut Biestern, Biestern, Bystry , in the database of the Verein für Computergenealogie