Kiwity
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Lidzbark Warmiński | ||
| Gmina : | Kiwity | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 6 ' N , 20 ° 46' E | ||
| Residents : | 500 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-106 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NLI | ||
Kiwity ( German Kiwitten ) is the village and seat of the rural community of the same name in the Powiat Lidzbarski of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in the former East Prussia , about 13 kilometers east of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 40 kilometers northeast of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).
history
In the 13th century the region belonged to the domain of the Teutonic Order . The village was founded before 1308. In a document from 1310 the place is called Knawitten . After the division of the Teutonic Order State of Prussia in the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the village with the Duchy of Warmia came to the autonomous Prussian Royal Share , which had voluntarily submitted to the suzerainty of the Polish crown. In the course of the first partition of Poland in 1772, Kiwitten came to the Kingdom of Prussia .
In 1789, Kiewitten is described as a royal village with a church, a Cologne mill and 43 fireplaces (households).
Until 1945 the village belonged to Kiwitten circle Heilsberg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia of the German Reich .
Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, the region was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, along with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia . The Polish place name Kiwity was introduced for Kiwitten .
Population development until 1945
| year | Residents | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 278 | |
| 1858 | 342 | including a Protestant person and 341 Catholics |
| 1910 | 438 | |
| 1933 | 483 | |
| 1939 | 434 |
Personalities
- Johann Wilde (1438–1532), first auxiliary bishop of Warmia (1498–1532), worked as a pastor in Kiwitten, died here on December 17, 1532 at the age of 94 and was buried here.
Parish
Until 1945, the majority of the Catholic inhabitants of Kiwitten belonged to the parish of Kiwitten in the Diocese of Warmia , while the Protestant part of the population was assigned to the parish Heilsberg in the parish of Braunsberg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The Catholic church members present in the village today belong to the Lidzbark Warmiński deanery in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members today belong to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland .
Attractions
The Peter and Paul Church, built in the 14th century on a fieldstone base, was on September 1 in 1968 under monument protection provided.
traffic
The village can be reached via Voivodeship Road 513.
Web links
- Blankensee on wiki-de.genealogy.net
- Blanki on encyklopedia.warmia.mazury.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Monumenta Historiae Warmiensis or collection of sources on the history of Warmia . Volume 1, Mainz 1860, page 433, footnote 233.
- ↑ Monumenta Historiae Warmiensis or collection of sources on the history of Warmia . Volume 1, Mainz 1860, p. 433, footnote 233.
- ↑ Monumenta Historiae Warmiensis or collection of sources on the history of Warmia . Volume 1, Mainz 1860, p. 270, no. 155.
- ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I: Topography of East Prussia . Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the East Prussian Cammer Department , p. 92.
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2: G – Ko , Halle 1821, S 341.
- ↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 111, point 52.
- ↑ http://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/heilsberg.htm
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heilsberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Eichhorn: The auxiliary bishops of Warmia . In: Magazine for history and antiquity of Warmia . Volume 3, Braunsberg 1866, pages 139-164, especially pages 140-142, item 1.
- ↑ List of monuments, p. 86