Kaliszki (Biała Piska)

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Kaliszki
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Kaliszki (Poland)
Kaliszki
Kaliszki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 37 '  N , 22 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '0 "  N , 22 ° 0' 32"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 58 : Olsztynek - Szczytno - PiszBiała Piska - Szczuczyn
Ruda - Orłowo → Kaliszki
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Kaliszki ( German  Kallischken , 1938 to 1945 Flockau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( city ​​and rural community Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Entrance to the local road 58 Kaliszki

Geographical location

Kaliszki is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Originally Kallissken and 1495 Haeinczen after 1494 Hennitzen after 1495 Heyntzin after 1595 Kalischken and until 1938 Kallischken called village with great substance was in 1447 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut 70 hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established.

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 he was incorporated into the Ruhden district.

265 inhabitants were registered in the manor district of Kallischken in 1910 .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kallischken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kallischken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928 the manor district of Kallischken was converted into a rural community of the same name. The number of inhabitants decreased to 248 by 1933.

For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names Kallischken was in "Flockau" on June 3, 1938 renamed . The number of inhabitants was still 208 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name "Kaliszki". Today it 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 Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Religions

Until 1945 Kallischken resp. Flockau parish into the Protestant Church of Bialla in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as into the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Kaliszki belongs to the parish Biała Piska in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , and on the Protestant side to the parish also in Biała Piska, a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Kallischken became a school town in 1756.

traffic

Kaliszki is located on the major road 58 , which runs through the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and runs to Podlaskie Voivodeship .

Since 1885 the place has been a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 413
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Flockau
  3. a b c d Kallischken / Flockau in family research Sczuka
  4. a b Rolf Jehke, Ruhden district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. 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
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska