Gmina Gruta

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Gmina Gruta
Coat of arms of Gmina Gruta
Gmina Gruta (Poland)
Gmina Gruta
Gmina Gruta
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Kuyavian Pomeranian
Powiat : Grudziądzki
Geographic location : 53 ° 27 '  N , 18 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '9 "  N , 18 ° 57' 24"  E
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 86-330
Telephone code : (+48) 56
License plate : CGR
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Jabłonowo Pomorskie – Grudziądz
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 17 school authorities
Surface: 123.77 km²
Residents: 6413
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0406022
Administration (as of 2018)
Wójt : Waldemar Zbigniew Kurkowski
Address: 86-330 Mełno
Website : gruta.pl



The Gmina Gruta is a rural community in the powiat Grudziądzki of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . Their seat is the village of the same name ( German Grutta) with about 1300 inhabitants.

geography

The Mełno (Lake Melno)

The community is located in the former West Prussia , about seven kilometers east of Grudziądz (Graudenz) . It borders in the west on the rural community Grudziądz and in the east on the elongated Mełno (Melnosee, Meldensee) .

history

Local government

As part of the first partition of Poland in 1772, the municipality came to Prussia . In 1919 it became part of the re-established Poland and was occupied by Germans from 1939 to 1945 during World War II and assigned to the district of Graudenz in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . Before the end of the war, the area came back to Poland.

The rural community existed from 1934 to 1954 and was re-established in 1973. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Thorn Voivodeship .

structure

The rural community of Gruta includes 17 villages (German names until 1945) with a Schulzenamt:

  • Annowo ( 1939–1942 Annaberg, 1942–1945 Annaberg, district of Graudenz)
  • Boguszewo (Boguschau)
  • Dąbrówka Królewska (Royal Dombrowken, 1942–1945 Königsdamerau)
  • Gołębiewko (Pigeon Village)
  • Gruta ( 1939–1942 Grutta, 1942–1945 Frankenhain)
  • Jasiewo (Hansfeld, 1939–1945 Hansfelde)
  • Kitnowo (Kittnau)
  • Mełno (Melno, 1942–1945 Report)
  • Nicwałd ( 1939–1945 Nitzwalde)
  • Okonin (Okonin , 1942–1943 Ockonin, 1943–1945 Ockenin)
  • Orle (Orle)
  • Plemięta (plement)
  • Pokrzywno (Castel Sant'Angelo)
  • Salno ( 1939–1942 Sallno, 1942–1945 Sallnau)
  • Słup ( 1939–1942 Slupp, 1942–1945 Starkenberg, district of Graudenz)
  • Viktorovo (Viktorovo)

Other villages in the municipality are the settlement Słupski Młyn (Mill Slupp) and the forest settlement Karasek.

traffic

Mełno station and Boguszewo stop are on the Działdowo – Chojnice railway line . The Culmsee – Melno small railway also ended in the former .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Gruta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. 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 .
  2. The Historical Place Directory