Rostki Bajtkowskie

Rostki Bajtkowskie
	Rostki Bajtkowskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 46 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '32 "  N , 22 ° 16' 23"  E
Residents :	38 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-321
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 667 : Nowa Wieś Ełcka / DK 65 ↔ Drygały - Biała Piska / DK 58
	Tracze / 1864N– Karbowskie → Rostki Bajtkowskie
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk railway line Railway station: Bajtkowo
Next international airport :	Danzig

Rostki Bajtkowskie ( German  Rostken (Ksp. Baitkowen), 1938 to 1945 Waiblingen (Eastern Pr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Rostki Bajtkowskie is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The village, called Rostken (Ksp. Lyck) until after 1871 and Rostken (Ksp. Baitkowen) until 1938 , was founded in 1483. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Baitkowen ( Polish Bajtkowo ) incorporated, which - renamed "District Baitenberg" 1938 - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

The village consisted of several small homesteads and in 1910 had a total of 79 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 106. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Rostken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 over the other state belonging to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Rostken, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3 (officially certified on July 16) of the year 1938, Rostken was officially renamed to "Waiblingen (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names . The population was 97 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Rostki Bajtkowskie”. Today it is the seat of its own Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) and as such a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Rostken resp. Waiblingen in the Evangelical Church of Baitkowen (1938 to 1945 Baitenberg , Polish Bajtkowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Rostki Bajtkowskie belongs to the Catholic parish Bajtkowo in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a subsidiary of the Pisz parish ( Johannisburg in German ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .  

traffic

Rostki Bajtkowskie is conveniently located on provincial road 667 , which connects the regions Ełk (Lyck) and Pisz (Johannisburg) as well as the national roads DK 65 and DK 58 . In addition, an overland road coming from the neighboring village of Tracze (Tratzen , 1938 to 1945 Trabenau) via Karbowskie (Karbowsken , 1938 to 1945 Siegersfeld) ends in Rostki Bajtkowskie.

The nearest train station is Bajtkowo on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1083
3. ↑ To distinguish it from the nearby village of Rostken (Ksp. Klaussen) ( Polish Rostki Skomackie )
4. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Waiblingen (Ostpr.)
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Baitkowen / Baitenberg district
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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. 86
9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493
11. ↑ Rostken (Ksp. Baitkowen)
12. ^ Parafia Bajtkowo