Nowe Kiejkuty

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Nowe Kiejkuty
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Nowe Kiejkuty (Poland)
Nowe Kiejkuty
Nowe Kiejkuty
Basic data
State : Poland
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Dźwierzuty
Geographic location : 53 ° 39 '  N , 20 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '36 "  N , 20 ° 2' 9"  E
Residents : 314 (2011)
Postal code : 12-120
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 600 : Mrągowo - Rybno - Jabłonka ↔ Romany - Szczytno
Stare Kiejkuty / DK 58 → Nowe Kiejkuty
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Nowe Kiejkuty ( German  Neu Keykuth ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Dźwierzuty (rural community Mensguth ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Nowe Kiejkuty is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

The after 1785 Neukeykuth , after 1810 New Keykutt and after 1871 New Keikuth village called was in 1391 as interest village of Walpot of Bassenheim founded. In 1519 the village had 23 households. The great plague of 1709/1711 claimed numerous victims from Keykuth. In 1787 the peasants' financial situation was described as "bad".

The separation was completed in Neu Keykuth in 1872. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established district of Schöndamerau ( Trelkowo in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg , to which it belonged until 1945. Neu Keykuth had 427 inhabitants in 1910. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Neu Keykuth belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or to join Poland ex. In Neu Keykuth, 268 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland had one vote.

Particular advances in the economic development of New Keykuth were made by improving traffic conditions. In 1910, Neu Keykuth became a station on the Rothfließ – Ortelsburg railway line . In the 1930s, the roads to Mensguth Dorf ( Dźwierzuty in Polish ) via Jablonken (Jabłonka) , to Schöndamerau (Trelkowo) and Alt Keykuth (Stare Kiejkuty) were expanded or rebuilt. The population, however, fell to 385 by 1933, but was 400 in 1939.

Neu Keykuth was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name "Nowe Kiejkuty". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the rural community Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Neu Keykuth was parish in the Evangelical Church of Groß Schöndamerau ( Trelkowo in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Ortelsburg (Szczytno) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Nowe Kiejkuty is located between the Protestant churches of Szczytno (Ortelsburg) , Rańsk (Rheinswein) and Dźwierzuty (Mensguth Dorf) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . It also belongs to the Catholic parish Trelkowo (Groß Schöndamerau) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The school, which was founded in the age of Frederick the Great , was given a modern building in 1926 with two classrooms and two teacher's apartments. The last German teachers were Heinrich Kootz and Otto Hundertmark .

traffic

Nowe Kiejkuty is located on the Voivodship Road 600 , which is important in terms of traffic and connects the district towns of Mrągowo (Sensburg) and Szczytno (Ortelsburg) with their regions. Nowe Kiejkuty has a direct connection to the national road 58 through the connecting road from Stare Kiejkuty (Alt Keykuth) .

Nowe Kiejkuty has been decoupled from rail transport since 1992 (passenger transport) and 2002 (freight transport). The railway station is closed and the railway systems have been dismantled since 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wieś Nowe Kiejkuty
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 824
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Neu Keykuth
  4. ↑ a b c d Neu Keykuth at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Schöndamarau district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ 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. 96
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496