Podlejki

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Podlejki
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Podlejki (Poland)
Podlejki
Podlejki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyński
Gmina : Gietrzwałd
Geographic location : 53 ° 44 '  N , 20 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '49 "  N , 20 ° 11' 21"  E
Residents : 73 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-036
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK16 Olsztyn - Ostróda
Next international airport : Danzig



Podlejki (German Podleiken ) is a district and a Schulzenamt in the rural community Gietrzwałd ( Dietrichswalde ) in the powiat Olsztyński ( Allenstein ) in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The village is located in historic East Prussia in the west of the Masurian Lake District , which belongs to the Baltic ridge , about five kilometers southeast of Dietrichswalde ( Gietrzwałd ) and 23 kilometers west of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ). The distance to Osterode ( Ostróda ) is 18 kilometers.

Numerous lakes, rivers, as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the area. The landscape was shaped by the Fennoscan ice sheet and is a post-glacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine with many channels .

history

Originally the southern Gau Barten of the Prussians was here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . The hand festival for Podleiken was awarded in 1364 according to Kulmer law .

After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 came Warmia in the division of the German Order State Prussia as Bishopric of Warmia for autonomous Prussian royal share which voluntarily the supremacy which Polish crown had assumed. In the course of the first division of Poland in 1772, Podleiken and Warmia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later to the province of East Prussia .

Podleiken belonged 1818-1945 to district Osterode in the administrative district of Olsztyn the province of East Prussia of the German Reich . In May 1874 the administrative district Manchengut was formed with the rural community Podleiken.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Podleiken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Podleiken, 120 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland had 20 votes.

In the course of the East Prussian operation , Podleiken was occupied by the Red Army on January 20, 1945 . After the end of the war, the place became part of the People's Republic of Poland together with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia under the name Podlejki in the summer of 1945, according to the Potsdam Agreement . After that, the immigration of Polish migrants began. As far as the local villagers had not fled, they were in the aftermath of Podleiken sold .

traffic

The village is located on DK 16 ( Landesstraße 16 ), the former Reichsstraße 127 , which leads from Ostróda ( Osterode ) to Olsztyn ( Allenstein ).

The railway line Olsztyn-Ostróda ( Allenstein - Osterode ) with the stop in Biesal runs three kilometers south of the village .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2017
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Manchengut. October 18, 2004, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  3. 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. 104