Spytkowo

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Spytkowo
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Spytkowo (Poland)
Spytkowo
Spytkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '52 "  N , 21 ° 49' 32"  E
Residents : 339 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo ↔ Giżycko - Pisz - Łomża - Siedlce - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
Pieczonki → Spytkowo
Next international airport : Danzig



Spytkowo ( German  Spiergsten , 1938 to 1945 Spirgsten ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Spytkowo is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers northeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The former Spiergsten was founded in 1480. (Polish Bożykowo) with his later districts Friedenthal and Tannenheim (Jegliniec) was the village from 1874 to 1945 in the District Pierkunowen ( Polish Piekunowo incorporated) that the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 557 residents registered in Spiergsten. In 1933 their number was 533 and rose to 562 in 1939. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938, the spelling of the village name was changed to "Spirgsten".

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Spiergsten belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Spiergsten, 420 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Spytkowo”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a place in the association of Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Spiergsten / Spirgsten was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen 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 Spytkowo belongs to the parish pw św. Kazimierza Królewicza in Giżycko with a branch church in Pieczonki (Pietzonken , 1930 to 1945 Grünau) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Spytkowo is located on the important and busy Polish state road DK 63 (section of the former German Reichsstrasse 131 ), which runs from the Polish border with Russia through northeast Poland to the border with Belarus . There is also an overland connection from Pieczonki to Spytkowo.

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. 1188
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Spirgsten
  4. ↑ Spiergsten
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke District Pierkunowen / Perkunen
  6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  7. ^ 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).
  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. 82
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492