Guzki (Ełk)

Guzki
	Guzki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 50 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '31 "  N , 22 ° 12' 51"  E
Residents :	26 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-301
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Bartosze / DK 16 - Mołdzie ↔ Rożyńsk
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Guzki ( German  Gusken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Guzki is located on the south bank of the Gusker See ( Jezioro Guzki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers west of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small village of Gusken was founded in 1476. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District grave Nick ( Polish Grabnik ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

The number of residents of Gusken was 176 in 1910. It rose to 187 by 1933 and amounted to 175 in 1939. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gusken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 over the other state belonging to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Gusken, 140 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In 1945 Gusken was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland transferred and carries since then the Polish form of the name "Guzki". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Gusken was parish in the Evangelical Church Grabnick ( Polish Grabnik ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Guzki belongs to the Catholic Church in Mołdzie (Moldavia , 1938 to 1945 Mulden) , a branch church of the parish of Św. Tomasza Apostoła in Ełk in the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk, a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Guzki is located on a side street that leads from Bartosze (Bartossen , 1938 to 1945 Bartendorf) on Landesstraße 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ) to Rożyńsk (Rosinsko , 1938 to 1945 Rosenheide) . Until 2009/10 Mołdzie (Moldzien , 1938 to 1945 Mulden) was the next station on the - today no longer regularly used - railway line Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 347
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gusken
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabnick District
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (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. 84
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
9. ↑ Gusken (District of Lyck)