Rostki (Pisz)

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Rostki (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Pisz
Geographic location : 53 ° 42 '  N , 21 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '7 "  N , 21 ° 54' 5"  E
Residents : 233 (2011)
Postal code : 12-200
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Trzonki - Szczechy Małe ↔ Łysonie
Pilchy → Rostki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Rostki ( German  Rostken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city ​​and rural community Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Rostki is located on the western edge of the restricted military area of ​​the Arys military training area in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers northeast of the district town of Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ).

history

The small village of Rostken was founded in 1484 - at a place that was already inhabited and was called Bartuschen . It was founded by the German Knight Order as a free property with 40 hooves according to Magdeburg law .

The place belonged to the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 Rostken and the village of Sachasch ( Zacharz in Polish ) were incorporated into the Sdorren district (from 1938 "Dorren district").

453 residents were registered in Rostken in 1910. Their number decreased to 439 by 1933 and was only 375 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Rostken came to Poland in 1945 with all of East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Rostki”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Rostki had 233 inhabitants.

Airfield

During the Second World War there was a military airfield north of the village. In 2013 the Lądowisko Pisz-Rostki , a privately operated special airfield with a runway of 870 meters in length, was opened.

Religions

Rostken was parish up until 1945 in the Protestant church Adlig Kessel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Rostki belongs to the parish Kociołek Szlachecki , which maintains a branch church in Rostki and is assigned to the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Rostken became a school town in 1737.

Daughters and sons of the place

  • Vera Macht (* 1920 in Rostken), German painter, portrait painter.

traffic

Rostki is located away from the traffic on a side road that connects Trzonki (Tronken , 1938 to 1945 Mövenau) via Szczechy Małe (Klein Zechen) with Łysonie (Lyssuhnen , 1938 to 1945 Lissuhnen) . In addition, in Rostki a side road from the neighboring ends Pilchy (Pilchen) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1083
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rostken
  3. ↑ a b c Bartuschen / Rostken in family research Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Dorren
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
  8. ^ Rostki bei Polska w liczbach
  9. ↑ a b Rostki - Rostken at ostpreussen.net
  10. ↑ Lądowisko Pisz-Rostki
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490
  12. ^ Parafia Kociołek Szlachecki