Poganty

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Poganty
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Poganty (Poland)
Poganty
Poganty
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 6 '  N , 21 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '36 "  N , 21 ° 44' 54"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Giżycko - Pierkunowo → Poganty
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Poganty ( German  Poganten ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Poganty is located on the south bank of Lake Dargainen ( Jezioro Dargin in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is seven kilometers south to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The small village Poganten , which was created as a Vorwerk , essentially consisted of a medium-sized courtyard and was a village in the manor district of Pierkunowen until 1945 (1935 to 1945 Perkunen, in Polish Pierkunowo). The mother community was Amtsdorf and belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945 administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 the place had 43 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, the small town came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish name "Poganty". Today it is part of the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Poganten 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 Poganty belongs to the parish pw św. Kazimierza Królewicza in Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) 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 .

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The coastal town of Poganty can be reached on a land route that leads from the town of Giżycko via Antonowo (Antonowen , 1938 to 1945 Antonsdorf) and Pierkunowo (Pierkunowen , 1935 to 1945 Perkunen) directly into the village.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, S, 946
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Poganten
  3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Perkunen district
  4. ↑ Poganten
  5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492