Kuty (Pozezdrze)
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Węgorzewo | ||
| Gmina : | Pozezdrze | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 10 ′ N , 21 ° 56 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 133 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 152 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-610 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NWE | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Pozezdrze / DK 63 - Sapieniec → Kuty | ||
| Jakunówko ↔ Gębałka - Stręgiel - Węgorzewo | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Kuty ( German Kutten ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).
Geographical location
Kuty on the north bank of the Jezioro Czarna Kuta (Black Cowl) is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers east of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .
history
Already in 1553 the place was called Kott , namely as a church village . In the following years the name was written as Kutt , and before 1785 the village was called Groß Kutten , after that until 1945 only Kutten . The village and its parish suffered particularly from the Great Plague : 1372 people were their victims in 1710.
On May 6, 1874 cowls office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
In 1910 435 inhabitants were registered in kutten. Their number decreased to 409 by 1925, amounted to 414 in 1933 and was still 413 in 1939.
As a result of the war, Kutten came to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and has been called "Kuty" ever since. Between 1945 and 1954 the village was the seat of a municipality ( Gmina in Polish ). Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) within the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ), before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
District of Kutten (1874–1945)
The district of Kutten existed for 71 years. Originally six villages were incorporated, in the end there were three:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Remarks |
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| Frankenort | Jeleni Róg |
1928 incorporated into Knobbenort , Jesziorowsken district |
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| Great Lenkuk | Łękuk Wielki | 1928 also incorporated into Knobbenort | |
| Yakunovks | Jakuns | Jakunówko | |
| Jakunowker Hegewald | |||
| Frocks | Kuty | ||
| Prongs | High seas | Żabinka until 2010: Żabinki |
On January 1, 1945, only the communities Hochsee, Jakunen and Kutten formed the district of Kutten.
Religions
Church building
In 1576 the construction of the current church began: a brick building on a field stone base with a decorated east gable and a three-storey west tower . In 1887, a thorough renovation was carried out, particularly due to the interior. The interior including the 1887 by organ builder Max Terletzki from Königsberg (Prussia) made organ was the World War II victims. In 1974 a stylish reconstruction with modern equipment took place . Until 1945 it was a Protestant church, since 1945 it has been a Catholic church, which now bears the name of Maximilian Kolbe .
Church / parish
Evangelical
Until 1945 the population of Kutten was almost without exception Protestant denomination. The church was the parish church for a parish with 14 localities, for which a parish had existed since 1554. The parish counted 3300 parishioners in 1925. It belonged to the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population ended the life of the Protestant parish Kutten. Today the Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Catholic
The few Catholic church members in frocks were assigned to the Church of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the dean's office Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia until 1945 . Now the St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Kuty is a Catholic parish church for a parish comprising eleven villages . It belongs to the deanery Węgorzewo in the current diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Personalities
Native of the place
- Cölestin Myslenta (born March 27, 1588 in Kutten), German Lutheran theologian and long-time rector of the Albertus University in Königsberg.
Connected to the place
- Michael Pogorzelski (1737–1798), German educator, Lutheran theologian, poet, popular writer and book author, was rector in frocks from 1772 to 1780.
traffic
Kuty is a little away from the traffic and can only be reached on side streets. One leads from the Polish state road DK 63 (formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ) near Pozezdrze (Possessern , Großgarten from 1938 to 1945 ) via Sapieniec (Karlsberg) directly into town. Another leads from the neighboring town Jakunówko (Jakunowken , 1938 to 1945 Jakunen) through Kuty to Gębałka (Gembalken) and Stręgiel (Groß Strengeln) and on to Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 636
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kutten
- ↑ a b c d Kuty - Kutten
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Kutten district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 88–89, fig. 357
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476