Paprotki (Miłki)

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Paprotki (Poland)
Paprotki
Paprotki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Miłki
Geographic location : 53 ° 56 '  N , 21 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '56 "  N , 21 ° 48' 13"  E
Residents : 213 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-513
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Miłki / DK 63 ↔ Rydzewo
Jagodne Małe - Borki → Paprotki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Paprotki ( German  Paprodtken , 1938 to 1945 Goldensee ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Cemetery of honor for those killed in World War I on the way to Borki

Geographical location

Paprotki is located on the west bank of the Paprodtkener See (1938 to 1945 Goldensee, Polish Jezioro Paproteckie ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The Paprodtken Mountains (1938 to 1945 Goldensee Mountains, in Polish Paproteckie Góra) are located southwest of the village . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is 13 kilometers to the north.

history

The year 1555 is considered the founding year of Paprotken (before 1785), Popratken (before 1818) and Paprodtken (until 1938): on June 24, 1555, bailiff Georg Krösten granted Waldfließ to the brothers Hansen , Mathes and Stephan from Klein Konopken (1938 to 1945) , Polish Konopki Małe ) a Tangible 77 hooves to Cöllmischem right that should occupy with farmers.

From 1874 to 1945, the village was as an independent rural community in the District Rydzewen incorporated (Polish Rydzewo), which - for - 1928 "District Rotwalde" renamed county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged . During the same period, the village was also assigned to the registry office in Rydzewen.

705 inhabitants lived in Paprodtken in 1910, 659 in 1933. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Paprodtken belonged, agreed on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Paprodtken 540 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

The village was renamed “Goldensee” on June 3, 1938. The population was 628 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since been called "Paprotki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and is a district within the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Paprodtken resp. Goldensee parish in the Protestant Church of Rydzewen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Paprotki belongs to the Evangelical Parish Church Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Parish Rydzewo , which maintains a branch church in Paprotki , in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

In 1717 a school was founded in Paprodtken. In 1792 a new school building had to be built because the old one had burned down. The school in Paprodtken was also attended by the children from Wierczeyken (1928 to 1945 Gregerswalde, Wierciejki in Polish). In 1945 the school had three classes.

Web links

Commons : Paprotki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 903
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Goldensee
  4. ↑ a b c d Paprodtken
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Rydzewen / Rotwalde
  6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ 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. 81
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493