Sołdany

Sołdany
	Sołdany
	Sołdany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 ' N , 21 ° 51' E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '3 " N , 21 ° 51' 28" E
Residents :	199 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kruklanki ↔ DK 63
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Sołdany [ sɔu̯ˈdanɨ ] ( German Soldahnen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural municipality Giżycko (rural municipality Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Sołdany is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Angerburg ( Polish Węgorzewo ) and eight kilometers northeast of today's Powiat capital Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Sold ancestors was founded around 1532 and in 1874 in the newly built office district Kruklanki ( Polish Kruklanki incorporated), which existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Soldahnen had 391 inhabitants, in 1925 there were 370. On September 30, 1928, the neighboring town of Neu Soldahnen (Nowe Sołdany in Polish) was incorporated. The population rose to 437 by 1933 and was 430 in 1939.

In war-induced Sold ancestors came in 1945 with the whole southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish place name "Sołdany". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a place in the association of the rural community Giżycko (Lötzen) , now "changed" to the powiat Giżycki , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Soldahnen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sołdany belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish of Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sołdany is located east of the Polish national road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) and can be reached from there on a side road in the direction of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1174
^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Soldahnen
^ Rolf Jehke, Kruglanken District
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476

[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. 1174

[3] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Soldahnen

[4] Rolf Jehke, Kruglanken District

[5] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg

[Rademacher-6] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476