Przytuły (Pozezdrze)

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Przytuły
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Przytuły (Poland)
Przytuły
Przytuły
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Pozezdrze
Geographic location : 54 ° 10 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '46 "  N , 21 ° 54' 41"  E
Height : 134 m npm
Residents : 73 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-610
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Pozezdrze / DK 63 - Sapieniec ↔ Kuty
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Przytuły (German Przytullen , 1938 to 1945 small cabins ) is a village and Schulzenamt in the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 large garden) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ). It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .

Geographical location

Przytuły is located in the Masurian Lake District on the Baltic ridge . Characteristic for the landscape in this area are numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests. Not far east of Przytuły begins the Puszcza Borecka and to the south lies Pojezierze Ełckie (Lake Lycka). The state road DK 63 Węgorzewo (Angerburg) - Giżycko (Lötzen) runs west of Przytuły . The state border between Poland and the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast runs about 30 km to the north .

The distance to Giżycko is 18 km, to Pozezdrze 4 km and to Węgorzewo 16 km.

history

Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians ( Sudauen ). After Christianization by the Teutonic Order , it belonged to the Teutonic Order and after 1525 to the Duchy of Prussia . In 1701 this region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia . After the Congress of Vienna, which was created to September 1, 1818 district Angerburg in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Province of Prussia . In May 1874, was District Przerwanken with the rural community and the Gutsbezirk formed Przytullen. In 1907/08 the Przerwanken District was renamed the Wiesental District . In 1938, Przytullen was renamed to Kleinkutten .

During the East Prussian operation , Kleinkutten was captured by the Red Army at the end of January 1945 and placed under the Soviet command. After the end of the war , Kleinkutten came to Poland and has been called Przytuły ever since . From 1975-1998 Przytuły was in the Suwałki Voivodeship and since 1999 belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Przytullen resp. Kleinkutten was parish up until 1945 in the Protestant Kutten Church in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Przytuły belongs to the Catholic parish in Kuty in the current diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish in Węgorzewo , a branch of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities of the place

Born in the place

In connection with the place

  • Heinrich Ernst Knolle (1912–2007) traveled from Berlin to Przytullen in 1933 in order to gain practical experience as a Gutseleve for the planned start as a farmer. In 1982 he published memoirs from his time in Masuria under the pseudonym Peter Jokostra .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Wiesental district. October 22, 2004, accessed February 27, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Knolle's stories. Der Spiegel 19/1984, December 3, 1984, accessed on February 27, 2015 .