Nitki

Nitki
	Nitki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 43 '  N , 22 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '3 "  N , 22 ° 7' 14"  E
Residents :	90 (2006)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Drygały / ext. 667 - Pogorzel Mała → Nitki
	Pogorzel Wielka → Nitki
Rail route :	Railway line Olsztyn – Ełk Railway station: Pogorzel Wielka
Next international airport :	Danzig

Nitki [ ˈɲitkʲi ] ( German  Nittken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Nitki is located on the river Święcek in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 23 kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

In 1472 the village called Mitken before 1535 , then Nittken until 1945 was founded.

From 1874 to 1945, it was part of the administrative district Monethen ( Polish Monety ) of the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

256 inhabitants were registered in Nittken in 1910. Their number fell to 231 by 1933 and was still 213 in 1939.

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

In war-induced Nittken 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Nitki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the urban and rural municipality Biała Piska (Bialla , m1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then the Voivodeship Warmia- Masuria belonging.

Religions

Until 1945 Nittken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Drygallen (1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf , now in Polish Drygały ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Nitki belongs to the Catholic parish in Drygały in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Biała Piska , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Nitki is located north of Voivodship Road 667 and can be reached directly via Drygały (Drygallen , 1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf) as well as via Pogorzel Wielka (Groß Pogorzellen , 1907 to 1945 (Groß) Brennen) . Pogorzel Wielka is also the closest train station to the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 815
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Nittken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Monethen District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (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. 76
7. ^ Gmina Biała Piska
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 491