Krzyżany

Krzyżany
	Krzyżany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Ryn
Geographic location :	53 ° 57 '  N , 21 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '53 "  N , 21 ° 28' 51"  E
Residents :	63 (2006)
Postal code :	11-520
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ryn / DK 59 ↔ Słabowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Krzyżany ( German  Krzysahnen , 1927 to 1945 Steinwalde ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Krzyżany is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 21 kilometers southwest of the district town Giżycko (Lötzen) and six kilometers west of the city of Ryn (Rhine) .

history

The small village with later several drainage mills was founded in 1547.

From 1874 to 1945 the place was incorporated into the district of Gneist ( Polish: Knis ), which belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

From 1874 to 1912 Krzysahnen was assigned to the registry office Gneist (Knis), then until 1945 to the registry office Rhein (Ryn).

245 inhabitants were registered in Krzysahnen in 1910. Their number decreased to 242 by 1933 and was only 187 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Krzysahnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Krzysahnen 180 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On March 2, 1927, Krzysahnen was renamed "Steinwalde".

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Krzyżany". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołewctwo ) and a village in the network of the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 in the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then included in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Krzysahnen / Steinwalde was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of the Rhine in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Parish Church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Krzyżany belongs to the Evangelical Parish in Ryn in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Parish Church Immaculate Conception of Mary in Ryn in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Krzyżany is located on a side road that branches off the Polish state road DK 59 (formerly German Reichsstraße 140 ) at Ryn (Rhine) and leads to Słabowo (Slabowen , 1928 to 1945 Langenwiese) .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 629
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Steinwalde
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gneist District
4. ↑ ^{a b} Krzysahnen at GenWiki
5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (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. 80
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 492-493