Karwik (Pisz)

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Karwik (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 41 ′  N , 21 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 42 "  N , 21 ° 46 ′ 24"  E
Residents : 202 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Jeglin / DK 63 → Karwik
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Karwik (also German  Karwik ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural community of Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).

Geographical location

Karwik is located on the south bank of Lake Sexter ( Jezioro Seksty in Polish ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, six kilometers northwest of the district town of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German ).  

Village street in Karwik

history

Karwik was founded in 1804 as a leasehold village.

From 1874 to 1945, the village was a rural community in the District Snopken ( Polish Snopki for -) incorporated, which - renamed "District Wait village" 1938 District Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (: 1905 Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On December 1, 1910, Karwik had 236 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 310 and in 1939 there were 312.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Karwik belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Karwik, 140 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In war-induced Karwik 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland . The village was allowed to keep its name. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the urban and rural community of Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . Karwik had a total of 202 inhabitants in 2011.

Religions

Until 1945 Karwik was parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today there is its own parish in Karwik, a branch of the parish in Kociołek Szlachecki ( German  noble boiler ). It is located in the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Pisz within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Karwik lock

Gate of the lock in Karwik

At the north-western exit of the village there is a lock in the Kanał Jegliński (Jeglinner or Wagenauer Canal) , which connects the Roschsee (also: Lake Warsaw, Jezioro Roś in Polish ) with Lake Sexter ( Jezioro Seksty in Polish ). The lock basin is 45 meters long and 7.5 meters wide. The waterway is not only popular for tourist purposes.

traffic

Karwik can be reached via a side road that branches off from the Polish state road 63 at Jeglin (Jeglinnen , 1938–1945 Wagenau) and leads directly into the village.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 423
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Karwik
  3. ↑ a b Karwik in family research Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Snopken / Waiting village
  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. 75
  8. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  9. ↑ Karwik in Polska w liczbach
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
  11. ^ Parafia Kociołek Szlachecki
  12. ↑ Słuza Karwik at mazury.info.pl