Koczek

Koczek
	Koczek
	Koczek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	53 ° 37 ' N , 21 ° 22' E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '14 " N , 21 ° 22' 25" E
Residents :	98 (2011)
Postal code :	12-150
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Spychowo / DK 59 - Kierwik → Koczek
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk ; train station: Spychowo
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Koczek [ ˈkɔt͡ʂɛk ] ( German Waldersee , until 1905 Kotzek ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Świętajno ( rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Koczek is located between the Kurwick ( Polish Jezioro Kierwik ) and the Drusener Lake ( Jezioro Zdróżno ) in the south of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The former district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) is 29 kilometers to the northeast, today's district metropolis Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ) is 26 kilometers to the south-west.

Village street in Koczek (2017)

Koczek in winter 2011

The village called Kotzieck around 1785, Koczeken around 1820, Koczek after 1871 and Kotzek until 1905 was founded as a casket settlement with five hooves . Later the place became the seat of a forestry . From 1874 to 1945 the village was in the District Kurwien ( Polish Karwica ) integrated, the for loop Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On April 21, 1905, Kotzek was renamed "Waldersee". In 1910 188 inhabitants were registered there. Their number was 182 in 1925, 175 in 1933 and 182 in 1939.

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

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Waldersee was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Koczek" and is today - "changed" from the Johannisburg district to the Szczycieński Powiat - a place in the Świętajno rural community (Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen) , until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship. Masuria belonging. In 2011 Koczek had 98 inhabitants.

Ecclesiastically, Koczek now belongs to the Protestant community in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland as well as to the Catholic parish in Spychowo (Puppen) in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Polish Catholic Church . Until 1945 Waldersee was parish in the Protestant Church of Puppen ( Spychowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish of Ortelsburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Entrance to Koczek

Bus shelter at the bus stop in Koczek

From Koczek there is a bus line to Spychowo , which is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line. From Koczek to Spychowo there is also a side road via Kierwik (Kurwick) on Kurwick Lake ( Jezioro Kierwik ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 487
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Waldersee
↑ Kotzek / Waldersee in family research Sczuka
↑ ^a ^b Rolf Jehke, Kurwien district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 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. 78
↑ Wieś Koczek w liczbach
↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 487

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Waldersee

[Sczuka-3] Kotzek / Waldersee in family research Sczuka

[Jehke-4] Rolf Jehke, Kurwien district

[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). Accessed September 2018(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. 78

[8] Wieś Koczek w liczbach

[9] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497