Pustniki

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Pustniki
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Pustniki (Poland)
Pustniki
Pustniki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Sorkwity
Geographic location : 53 ° 53 '  N , 21 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '35 "  N , 21 ° 8' 58"  E
Residents : 183 (2011)
Postal code : 11-731
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Sorkwity / DK 16 - Stary GielądZyndaki - Burszewo - Wola / ext . 590
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Pustniki ( German  Pustnick ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Sorkwity ( German  Sorquitten ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Pustniki is located on the west bank of the Jezioro Gielądzkie ( German  Gehlandsee ) and south of the Jezioro Pustniki Mały in the middle of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers west of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

View of the Gehlandsee near Pustniki / Pustnick
The oldest house in Pustniki
Street in Pustniki in winter

history

The village called Pustnick after 1785 , then Pustnick until 1945 , was founded in 1499. Village and Good Pustnick were 1874 in the newly established District Choszewen ( Polish Choszczewo incorporated), which - in 1936 in "District Hohensee" renamed - existed until 1945 and to Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Pustnick belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Pustnick (village and estate), 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1930 was Gutsbezirk Pustnick in the rural municipality transferred Pustnick.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Pustnick was also affected. The village was given the Polish form of the name "Pustniki", is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the rural community Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Population numbers

year number
1818 69
1839 111
1871 174
1885 193
1898 186
1905 176
1910 174
1933 289
1939 304
2011 183

church

Until 1945 Pustnick was parish in the Protestant Church of Sorquitten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Stanislewo (1931 to 1945 Sternsee , Polish Stanclewo ) in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Pustniki belongs ecclesiastically entirely to Sorkwity, both to the Protestant parish , today located in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic parish in the current Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Pustniki is located on a side street that goes from Polish state road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ) at Sorkwity (Sorquitten) via Zyndaki (Sonntag) and Burszewo (Burschewen , 1938 to 1945 Prusshöfen) to Voivodship Road 590 (formerly German Reichsstraße 141 ) near Wola ( Dürwangen) leads. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1052
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Pustnick
  3. a b c Pustnick at GenWiki
  4. a b Rolf Jehke, Choszewen / Hohensee district
  5. 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. 115
  6. Wieś Pustniki w liczbach
  7. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 501