Pistki (Ełk)

Pistki
	Pistki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 47 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '48 "  N , 22 ° 12' 53"  E
Residents :	71 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-325
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ruska Wieś / DK 16 ↔ Mostołty - Suczki - Bajtkowo / ext. 667
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Pistki ( German  Pistken , 1938 to 1945 Kröstenwerder ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Pistki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The after 1785 Pistzken and until 1938 Pistken estate village called was founded in the 1559th In 1874 it was in the newly built office district Klaussen ( Polish Klusy ) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Pistken had 139 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Pistken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Pistken, 60 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On September 30, 1928 was Gutsbezirk Pistken its independence and joined with the Nachbargutsbezirk Reusch village ( Polish Ruska Wieś ) to the new rural community Reusch village together. For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names Pistken was in "Kröstenwerder" on June 3, 1938 renamed .

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Pistki”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Pasture near Pistki

Religions

Pistken was parish up to 1945 in the Evangelical Church of Baitkowen (1938 to 1945 Baitenberg , in Polish Bajtkowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Pistki belongs to the Catholic parish church in Klusy ( German  Klaussen ) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz (German Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

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Place name sign of Pistki

Pistki is located on a side road that branches off from Polish state road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ) at Ruska Wieś ( German  Reuschendorf ) and leads via Mostołty (Mostolten) to Bajtkowo (Baitkowen , 1938 to 1945 Baitenberg) on voivodship road 667 .

Web links

Commons : Pistki (Gmina Ełk)  - collection of pictures, 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. 929
3. ↑ Kröstenwerder
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Klaussen district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ 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. 86
7. ↑ Gmina Ełk
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
9. ↑ Pistken