Kurzątki

Kurzątki
	Kurzątki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 39 '  N , 22 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '44 "  N , 22 ° 19' 28"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1680N: Prostki / DK 65 - Sokółki ↔ Skarżyn - Kożuchy Małe / DK 58 (- Biała Piska )
	Kurki → Kurzątki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kurzątki ( German  Kurziontken , 1938 to 1945 Zealand ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Kurzątki is located on Jezioro Kurząteckie in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 34 kilometers east of the former district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) and 18 kilometers south of today's district metropolis Ełk ( Lyck in German ).  

history

Originally called Kurzientken , after 1540 Kurczunck , after 1785 Kurtzuntken , after 1818 Kurzontken and until 1938 Kurziontken , the village was founded in 1473.

In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established Großrosen district.

324 inhabitants were registered in Kurziontken in 1910, in 1933 there were 314.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which the Kurziontken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Kurziontken, 200 inhabitants voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, from ideological and political reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names, the renaming of Kurziontken in "Zealand". The population in 1939 was 278.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Kurzątki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the community of Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945 Kurziontken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Groß Rosinsko in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Kurzątki is now a Roman Catholic subsidiary of the parish Rożyńsk Wielki in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parishes in Biała Piska (Bialla , Gehlenburg from 1938 to 1945 ) and Ełk (Lyck) , both sub- parishes of the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kurzątki is located on the secondary road 1680N, which connects the national roads 65 and 58 and the two municipalities Prostki and Biała Piska . In Kurzątki an overland road from the neighboring town of Kurki, already in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , ends .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 636
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Seeland
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Großrosen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
5. ^ ^{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). 
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. 75
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 491