Ranty
Ranty | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Giżycko | |
Gmina : | Wydminy | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 56 ' N , 22 ° 2' E | |
Residents : | 200 (2006) | |
Postal code : | 11-510 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | |
License plate : | NGI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Ext. 656 : ( Giżycko -) Staświny - Pamry ↔ Zelki - Ełk | |
Konopki Wielkie / DK 63 - Talki → Ranty | ||
Wydminy / ext. 655 → Ranty | ||
Rail route : |
Railway Głomno – Białystok Railway station: Wydminy |
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Next international airport : | Danzig |
Ranty [ ˈrantɨ ] ( German Ranten ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).
Geographical location
Ranty is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 22 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .
history
The small village called Randten after 1785 and Ranten until 1945 was founded in 1485 and before 1945 consisted of a large estate and a brick factory . In 1874 it was in the newly built office district Neuhoff ( Polish Zelki ) integrated, the for loop Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. From 1874 Ranten was also assigned to the Neuhoff registry office . In 1910 the Ranten manor had 188 inhabitants.
Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Ranten belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Ranten, 120 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.
On September 30, 1928 the manor district Ranten was incorporated into the rural community of Radzien (1938 to 1945 Königsfließ, Polish Radzie ) and now belonged to the district of Klein Gablick ( Polish: Gawliki Małe ), which in 1938 in "district of Balzhöfen " (until 1938 Wensowken, Polish Wężówka ) was renamed.
As a result of the war, Ranten came to Poland in 1945 along with the entire south of East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Ranty". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.
church
Until 1945, Ranten was parish in the Protestant Church of Neuhoff 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 Ranty belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a branch parish of the parish Giżycko in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church Zelki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Personalities
- Robert Carlsen (born February 13, 1879 in Ranten, † March 7, 1959 in Hamburg), German farmer, politician (DNVP) and officer
traffic
Rantey is located on the voivodship road DW 656 , which connects the two district towns of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Ełk (Lyck) . Via Konopki Wielkie (Groß Konopken , 1938 to 1945 Hanffen) there is a connection to the Polish state road DK 63 (formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ) and via Wydminy to the voivodship road DW 655 .
Wydminy is also the nearest train station and is on the Głomno – Białystok railway , which was operated from Königsberg (Prussia) to Brest-Litowsk before 1945 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1073
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Ranten
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Neuhoff district
- ↑ a b c Ranten (Landkreis Lötzen)
- ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
- ^ 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. 81
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Klein Gawlick / Balzhöfen district
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 3 documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492