Miechy

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Miechy
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Miechy (Poland)
Miechy
Miechy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Miłki
Geographic location : 53 ° 57 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '34 "  N , 21 ° 54' 55"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-513
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Miłki / DK 63 ↔ Czyprki / ext. 656
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Miechy ( German  Mniechen , 1928 to 1945 Münchenfelde ) is a place in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Miechy is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 14 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The front of 1,785 Miechen after 1818 Mnichen and until 1928 Mniechen called small village was founded 1508th

From 1874 to 1945, the site was in the District Milken ( Polish Milki ) integrated, the for loop Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Mniechen had 103 inhabitants who lived in a village with a few large and small farms. The registry office responsible was in Milken .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Mniechen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Mniechen, 60 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On January 3, 1928, Mniechen was renamed "Münchenfelde". The number of inhabitants was 92 in 1933 and 93 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Miechy". Today it is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Miłki and thus part of the rural community of the same name in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Mniechen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Milken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno in Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Miechy belongs to the Protestant parish church in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church in Miłki in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Miechy is located on a subordinate side road that connects the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) near Miłki (Milken) with the voivodship road DW 656 near Czyprki (Czyprken , 1928 to 1945 Freiort) .

There is no longer a rail link, as the Lötzen – Johannisburg (Giżycko – Pisz) railway with the nearest railway station Milken was abandoned in 1945 due to the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 774
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Münchenfelde
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Milken District
  4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  5. ↑ a b c Mniechen
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 80
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492