Ogródek (Orzysz)

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Ogródek
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Ogródek (Poland)
Ogródek
Ogródek
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 49 '  N , 22 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '31 "  N , 22 ° 6' 5"  E
Residents : 236 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : 1865N: Klusy / DK 16 ↔ Skomack Wielki / 1854N
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Ogródek ( German  Ogrodtken , 1938 to 1945 Kalgendorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( town and country municipality Arys ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Ogródek is located on the east bank of the Krackstein Lake ( Polish Jezioro Kraksztyn ) and the Kallen Lake (Polish Jezioro Kaleńskie , also Jezioro Druglin Mały ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is 17 kilometers to the east to the former district town of Lyck ( Ełk in Polish ) and today's district metropolis of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ) is 27 kilometers to the south-west.

history

In 1551 the village of Ogrodtken was founded.

From 1874 to 1945, the site was in the District Skomatzko ( Polish Skomack Wielki ) integrated, the - the - 1938 in "District Dippelsee" renamed county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Ogrodtken had a total of 387 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 453. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Ogrodtken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Ogrodtken, 300 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3, 1938 Ogrodtken was foreign-sounding place names in "Kalgendorf" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 444 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the entire southern East Prussia and with it Ogrodtken and Kalgendorf were transferred to Poland in 1945. The village received the Polish name form "Ogródek" and is today the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the urban and rural municipality Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Orgodtken was a place in the Protestant parish Klaussen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and also in the Roman Catholic parish of St. Adalbert in Lyck ( Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Ogródek belongs to the parish of Klusy in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk, a branch parish of the parish of Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

museum

The Michael Kajka Museum ( Muzeum Michał Kajka in Polish ) has been located in Ogródek since 1968 and documents the life and work of the famous Masurian folk poet and artist.

traffic

Ogródek is not far from the Polish state road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ) on the side road 1865N, which leads from Klusy (Klaussen) to Skomack Wielki (Skomatzko , Dippelsee 1938 to 1945 ) .

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. 844
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kalgendorf
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Skomatzko / Dippelsee
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ^ A b 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).
  7. ↑ 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. 85
  8. ↑ Gmina Orzysz
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
  10. ^ Ogrodtken (District of Lyck) at GenWiki
  11. ↑ Website of the Michael Kajka Museum (Polish)