Pierkunowo

Pierkunowo
	Pierkunowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '20 "  N , 21 ° 43' 50"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Giżycko - Antonowo → Pierkunowo
	Poganty → Pierkunowo
	Róg Pierkunowski → Pierkunowo
Rail route :	Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Giżycko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Pierkunowo ( German  Pierkunowen , 1935 to 1945 Perkunen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ). The place name is derived from the old Prussian god of thunder Perkunos, who owned his consecration places near Steinort.

Pierkunowo seen from the Kisajno

Geographical location

Pierkunowo is located on the east bank of the Kisajno ( German  Kissainsee ) and a few hundred meters west of the Tryd ( German  Tritt ) in the north-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is five kilometers to the southwest.

history

The small village of Pierkunowen with the later domain was ceded after a hand-held party in 1561 by the Schulz von Pierkunowen against the preservation of the place Faulheyde (Faulhöden, Polish Fuleda). In 1874 the place with the associated localities Poganten ( Polish Poganty ) and Roggen (Róg Pierkunowski) became an official village and eponymous for an administrative district. This belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (from 1905 administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Pierkunowen had 382 inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Pierkunowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Pierkunowen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30th, the new rural community Pierkunowen was formed from the manor district of Pierkunowen and the islands of Kadlupka, Sosnowi and Switalowi (manor district of Rudowker Forst) . The population was 239 in 1933 and - after the village was renamed "Perkunen" on October 5, 1935 - in 1939 it was still 219.

In 1945 the city came in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish form of the name "Pierkunowo". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a village in the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Pierkunowen / Perkunen district (1874–1945)

The Pierkunowen district, renamed “Perkunen District” in 1935, initially had five and ended up with only four places:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Pierkunowen	(from 1935 :) Perkunen	Pierkunowo
Pietzonken	(from 1930 :) Grünau	Pieczonki
Schwiddern		Świdry
Spiergsten	Spirgsten	Spytkowo
Spiergsten-Grünwalde	Spirgsten-Grünwalde	Zielony Gaj	1928 incorporated into Pietzonken

On January 1, 1945, Grünau, Perkunen, Schwiddern and Spirgsten still belonged to the district.

Religions

Before 1945 Pierkunowen was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen 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 Pierkunowo belongs to the Catholic parish pw św. Kazimierzy Królewicza in Giżycko (with a branch church in Pieczonki ) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

A school was founded in Pierkunowen in 1817. In 1945 it was run in two classes.

traffic

The coastal village of Pierkunowo is a little out of the way, but can be reached via a road directly from the district town of Giżycko via Antonowo (Antonowen , 1938 to 1945 Antonsdorf) . In addition, two land routes from the north from Poganty (Poganten) and Róg Pierkunowski (rye) end in Pierkunowo. The nearest train station is Giżycko Station on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Web links

Commons : Pierkunowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 922
2. ^ "The Masurian Lakes", Max Simoneit, 2nd edition, Lötzen 1927
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Perkunen
4. ↑ ^{a b} Pierkunowen
5. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, District Pierkunowo / Perkunen
6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen 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. 81
8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492