Sajzy

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Sajzy
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Sajzy (Poland)
Sajzy
Sajzy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 56 '  N , 22 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '1 "  N , 22 ° 17' 12"  E
Residents : 101 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Straduny / DK 65 ↔ Połom - Wronki / ext. 655
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Sajzy ( German  Zeysen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Landscape near Sajzy (Zeysen)

Geographical location

Sajzy located on the northern shore of Laszmiaden Lake (1938-1945 tab Mieden Lake , Polish Jezioro Łaśmiady ) to the east of the Warmia and Mazury , 13 kilometers northwest of the county seat Elk (Lyck) .

history

What was then Zeysen was founded in 1474. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was incorporated into the Stradaunen district ( Straduny in Polish ). He belonged to the circle elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 327 inhabitants were registered in Zeysen. Their number rose to 396 by 1933 and totaled 344 in 1939. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Zeysen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Zeysen, 260 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

As a result of the war, Zeysen came to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and since then has borne the Polish name form "Sajzy". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Burial place in the old cemetery in Sajzy

Before 1945 Zeysen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Stradaunen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sajzy belongs to the Catholic parish Straduny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the town of Ełk, a branch parish of the Pisz parish ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sajzy is located on a side road that connects the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) at Straduny ( German  Stradaunen ) via Połom (Polommen , 1938 to 1945 Herzogsmühle) with the voivodship road 655 near Wronki (Wronken , 1938 to 1945 Fronicken) . There is no train connection.

Stacia Terenova

The "Stacja Terenowa" of the Biological Faculty of the University of Warsaw in Sajzy

Since 1978 the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw in Sajzy has maintained a “Stacja Terenowa” (official name: Stacja Terenowa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego w Sajzach ), a station for ecological-scientific research and renewal, which attracts numerous students.

Web links

Commons : Sajzy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 1132
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Zeysen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Stradaunen district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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).
  7. ↑ 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. 88
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  9. ↑ Zeysen