Siedliska (Wydminy)

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Siedliska (Poland)
Siedliska
Siedliska
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 54 ° 0 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '47 "  N , 21 ° 55' 26"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp ↔ Wydminy - Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
Kruklin → Siedliska
Rail route : Głomno – Białystok railway line
Next international airport : Danzig



Siedliska ( German  Schedlisken , 1938 to 1945 Dankfelde ) 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

Siedliska is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The village called Schedlisken at the time was founded in 1555. With its living space Maxhof ( Polish Grodkowo ) it was from 1874 to 1945 in the District Staßwinnen ( Polish Staświny incorporated), which - in 1938 in "District Eisermühl" renamed - to circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In the period from 1874 to 1945 Schedlisken was also assigned to the registry office in Staßwinnen / Eisermühl .

In 1910 the village had a total of 617 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 636 and in 1939 already 665.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schedlisken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Schedlisken, 500 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938 Schedlisken was renamed "Dankfelde".

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Siedliska". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and part of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Schedlisken / Dankfelde was parish in the Protestant Church of Milken 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 Siedliska belongs to the Evangelical parish church Giżycko with the Wydminy branch in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church Miłki (or Wydminy ) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

The train station in Siedliska, formerly Schedlisken / Dankfelde train station

Siedliska is located on the voivodship road DW 655 , which connects the districts of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Olecko (Oletzko / Treuburg) in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with the Suwałki district in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . In addition, a side road leads from the neighboring town of Kruklin (Kruglinnen , 1938 to 1945 Kraukel) directly to Siedliska.

Since 1868 the village has been a train station (until 1945: train station) on the Głomno – Białystok railway line , which once led from Königsberg (Prussia) ( Kaliningrad in Russian ) to Brest in Belarus and is now only operated on Polish territory.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1144
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Dankfelde
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Staßwinnen / Eisermühl district
  4. ↑ a b c Schedlisken (Landkreis Lötzen)
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (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. 81
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492