Guzki (Biała Piska)

Gusken
	Gusken
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '48 "  N , 21 ° 57' 32"  E
Residents :	52 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Gruzy ↔ Liski
	Kumielsk → Guzki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Guzki [ ˈɡuskʲi ] ( German  Gusken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( city ​​and rural community Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Guzki is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south-east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The after 1476 Gussken to 1540 Sdroieffsken after 1540 Stroyefsky village called was in 1471 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut ten hooves founded. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Szymken ( Polish Szymki ) integrated, the - the - in "District Simken" renamed in 1938 District Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On December 1, 1910, 301 residents were registered in Gusken. Their number decreased to 271 by 1933 and was 257 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gusken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Gusken, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As a result of the Second World War Gusken 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Guzki". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria . The population in 2011 was 52.

Religions

Until 1945 Gusken was parish in the Evangelical Church Kumilsko (1938 to 1945 Morgen , Polish Kumielsk ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the evangelical inhabitants of Guzki orient themselves towards the parish in Biała Piska, a branch parish of the parish Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Guzki belongs to the parish of Kumielsk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Guzki is a little away from the traffic, but can be reached on a side road that leads from Gruzy (Grusen , 1938 to 1945 Gruhsen) to Liski (Lisken) , and an impasse from Kumielsk (Kumilsko , 1938 to 1945 Morgen) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 347
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gusken
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gusken - Guzki in family research Sczuka
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Symken / Simken
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 74
8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
9. ↑ Guzki at Polska w liczbach
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491