Mostołty

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Mostołty
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Mostołty (Poland)
Mostołty
Mostołty
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 46 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '45 "  N , 22 ° 13' 38"  E
Residents : 107 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : 1864N: Ełk - Szarejki - Tracze ↔ Monety - Rakowo Małe / ext. 667
Ruska Wieś / DK 16 - Pistki ↔ Suczki - Bajtkowo / ext. 667
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Mostołty ( German  Mostolten ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Mostołty is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The village called Mostalten was founded before 1539, Mostollen after 1777 and Mostolten after 1871 .

From 1874 to 1945, the site was in the District Baitkowen ( Polish Bajtkowo for -) incorporated, which - renamed "District Baitenberg" 1938 county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (: 1905 Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Mostolten had 187 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Mostolten belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Mostolten, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928 the neighboring estate district Tratzen (1938 to 1945 Trabenau , Polish Tracze ) was incorporated into Mostolten. The number of inhabitants rose to 247 by 1933 and amounted to 241 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Mostolten came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Mostołty”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Mostolten was parish in the Evangelical Church of Baitkowen (1938 to 1945 Baitenberg , Polish Bajtkowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Mostołty belongs to the Catholic parish of Bajtkowo in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a branch parish of the Pisz parish ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities

  • Gerd Bandilla (born October 3, 1934 in Mostolten), German local politician, local director

traffic

Mostołty is on the side road 1864N, which runs from the district town of Ełk via Szarejki (Sareyken , 1938 to 1945 Sareiken) and Monety (Monethen) to Rakowo Małe (Köllmisch Rakowen , 1938 to 1945 Köllmisch Rakau) on the voivodship road 667 . In Mostołty it crosses a side road that leads from Ruska Wieś (Reuschendorf) on state road 16 to Bajtkowo on voivodship road 667.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 796
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Mostolten
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Baitkowen / Baitenberg district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  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. 85
  7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
  10. ↑ Mostolten
  11. ^ Parafia Bajtkowo