Yerutki

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Jerutki (Poland)
Yerutki
Yerutki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 53 ° 36 '  N , 21 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '32 "  N , 21 ° 8' 16"  E
Residents : 390 (2011)
Postal code : 12-140
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Młyńsko / DK 53Świętajno
Jeruty - Chajdyce → Yerutki
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk
train station: Jeruty
Next international airport : Danzig



Jerutki ( German  Klein Jerutten ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Jerutki is located on the Eastern Canal ( Jerutka in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).  

history

Local history

Residential house in Yerutky
Old residential building near the church (probably the former rectory)

Klein Jerutten was founded as a Schatulldorf by the Great Elector around 1687 . Before, here a Jeruttki called Teerofen . Over the centuries the village has had problems with the annual floods, which actually could not be cleared until the 1930s.

On July 16, 1874 Small Jerutten office Village and thus its name to one was District , which existed until 1945 and for district Szczytno in the Administrative district Königsberg : (from 1905 Region of Olsztyn in) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Klein Jerutten had 821 inhabitants in 1910. In 1933 their number was 718 and in 1939 it was 660.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Klein Jerutten, 580 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Klein Jerutten was also affected. It received the Polish name form "Jerutki" and is today with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the Powiat Szczycieński , until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia and Mazury belong. In 2011 Yerutki had 390 inhabitants.

Klein Jerutten District (1874–1945)

The following were incorporated into the Klein Jerutten district:

German name Polish name
Friedrichsfelde (village) Chochół
Great Jerutten Jeruty
Klein Jerutten Yerutki
Olschienen
1938–1945: Ebendorf (Ostpr.)
Olszyny
Schleusenwald (forest)

church

Church building

The once Protestant, now Catholic half-timbered church from 1734

The church in Klein Jerutten was built in 1734 as a Protestant church. A cemetery was laid out next to her. The church is a half-timbered church to which a massive tower was added in 1821. In the church there is an ornate wood-carved pulpit altar from 1737. Originally from the same time baptismal is now in the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Allenstein) .

Since the 1980s the church has been a Roman Catholic house of worship dedicated to Maximilian Kolbe .

Parish

Evangelical

In 1709 Klein Jerutten became a Protestant church village. It once belonged to the Rastenburg Inspection (Polish: Kętrzyn ), until 1945 it was incorporated into the superintendent district of Passenheim (Polish: Pasym ) in the parish of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church in Schwentainen ( Świętajno ) was affiliated until the 1920s .

The flight and expulsion of the local population in the course of the Second World War put an end to the Protestant parish in the place then called Jerutki. Protestant church members living here today belong to the church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Until 1945, on the Catholic side, Klein Jerutten was parish in Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) in the dean's office Masuria I in the then diocese of Warmia . Today the former Protestant church in Yerutki is a Catholic church, which is assigned as a branch church to the parish Świętajno in the Rozogi (Friedrichshof) dean's office in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The school house from 1906

A school was built in 1846 on the church property on the south side of the rectory. In 1906 it had to be replaced by a new building. It was built on the south side of the cemetery and had three classes.

traffic

Street

Jerutki is located on a side road that branches off from state road 53 ( formerly German Reichsstraße 134 ) at Młyńsko and leads to Świętajno (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ). Also from Jeruty (Groß Jerutten) there is a road to Jerutki via Chajdyce (Neu Jerutten) .

rail

Yerutki does not have its own rail connection. The nearest train station is Jeruty at the railway Olsztyn-Ełk ( Olsztyn-Elk ).

Web links

Commons : Jerutki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wieś Jerutki w liczbach
  2. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 398
  3. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Klein Jerutten
  4. a b Klein Jerutten at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. a b Rolf Jehke, Klein Jerutten district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. 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. 95
  9. ^ Urząd Gminy Świętajno: Sołectwa
  10. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2, Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 130, fig. 609, 610
  11. Jerutki - Klein Jerutten at ostpreussen.net
  12. Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  13. ^ Parish of St. Andrew-Bobola Świętajno near the Archdiocese of Warmia