Grądzkie (Wydminy)

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Grądzkie
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Grądzkie (Poland)
Grądzkie
Grądzkie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '26 "  N , 22 ° 6' 20"  E
Residents : 173 (2009)
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Wolisko - Lipowo → Grądzkie
Gawliki Wielkie → Grądzkie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Grądzkie ( German  Grondzken , 1938 to 1945 Funken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Ruins of the Dutch mill in Grądzkie

Geographical location

Grądzkie is located on the north bank of Lake Gablick ( Jezioro Gawlik in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 23 kilometers east of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The small village , called Gruntzken in 1785 , Gronsken in 1818 and Grondzken until 1938, was incorporated into the Orlowen District ( Orłowo in Polish ) from 1874 to 1945 . It belongs to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . During the same period Grondzken was assigned to the Orlowen registry office .

In 1910 Grondzken had 523 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 498.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Grondzken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Grondzken, 400 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Grondzken was renamed "Sparks" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names. In 1939 the village had 453 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish name form "Grądzkie". It is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Grondzken was parish in the Protestant Church Orlowen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Grądzkie belongs to the protestant church Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and the Catholic Church of St. Casimir in Orłowo in the diocese Elk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Grądzkie can only be reached on two side roads, some of which are very impassable: from the north from Wolisko ( German  Walisko, 1938 to 1945 Waldsee ) via Lipowo ( German  Lipowen, 1928 to 1945 Lindenheim ), from the south from Gawliki Wielkie ( German  Groß Gablick ) .

Until 1945 Grondzken resp. Funken railway station on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg ( Polish: Kruklanki – Olecko ) railway . Due to the destruction caused by the war, the line was no longer reactivated.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 334
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Funken
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Orlowen / Adersdorf district
  4. ↑ a b Grondzken
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (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. 81
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492