Guzy (Kowale Oleckie)

Guzy
	Guzy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 9 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '15 "  N , 22 ° 22' 4"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-420 Kowale Oleckie
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 ↔ Cichy - Dunajek / ext. 655
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Guzy ( German  Guhsen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Guzy is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the southwest slope of the Seesker Höhe ( Wzgórza Szeskie in Polish ), 16 kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , Treuburg from 1928 to 1945 ) .

history

The village later called Guzy , which was still called Guß before 1785, was founded in 1565. Before 1945 it was a widely scattered village that had been incorporated into the district of Kowahlen ( Kowale Oleckie in Polish ) in 1874. This - renamed “Reimannswalde District” in 1938 - was part of the Oletzko District until 1945 - called “Treuburg District” from 1933 to 1945 - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Guhsen had 305 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 262 by 1933 and was still 219 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Guhsen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Guhsen, 260 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Guhsen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of the name "Guzy". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) in the association of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

Religions

The majority Protestant population of Guhsen before 1945 was parish in the parish of the Church of Schareyken (1938 to 1945: Schareiken , Polish Szarejki ) and was part of the church district Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholics oriented themselves to Marggrabowa / Treuburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

After 1945 the evangelical church members of Guzys were incorporated into Gołdap (Goldap) , a branch of the parish in Suwałki within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . The Catholic Church in Poland established a parish in Kowale Oleckie , to which Guzy was assigned. It belongs to one of the two deaneries in Olecko within the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) .

traffic

Guzy is on a side road that goes from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) on the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) via Cichy (Czychen , 1938 to 1945 Bolken) to Dunajek (Duneyken , 1938 to 1945 Duneiken) on the voivodship road DW 655 . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005) / Guhsen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kowahlen / Reimannswalde district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ 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. 6
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484