Sterławki Małe

Sterławki Małe
	Sterławki Małe
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Giżycko
Geographic location :	54 ° 0 '  N , 21 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '22 "  N , 21 ° 38' 7"  E
Residents :	314 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Kętrzyn - Sterławki Wielkie ↔ Giżycko
	Szczybały Giżyckie / DK 59 → Sterławki Małe
Rail route :	Głomno – Białystok railway line
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sterławki Małe ( German  Klein Stürlack ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural municipality Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Sterławki Małe is located on the south bank of Lake Deyguhn ( Jezioro Dejguny in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The former Klein Stürlack was founded in 1407. In 1785 it was mentioned as a village according to Kulmer law with 40 fire places, in 1818 with a water mill and 60 fire places with 391 inhabitants.

With the districts of Augusthof (also Augusthoff) ( Polish Jaguszewo ) and Silberberg (Srebrna Góra, both localities no longer exist), the village formed a rural community in the newly established district of Groß Stürlack (Polish Sterławki Wielkie), which existed until 1945 and part of the Lötzen district in the Gumbinnen district (1905 to 1945 Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 698 residents were registered in Klein Stürlack. Their number fell to 653 by 1933 and was still 592 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Klein Stürlack belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Klein Stürlack, 480 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, Klein Stürlack was transferred to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a district in the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Grave sites in the old Protestant cemetery

Before 1945 - the former Protestant cemetery in Sterławki Małe still originates from this time - Klein Stürlack was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church in Groß Stürlack in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Sterławki Małe has its own chapel , which is a branch chapel of the parish of the Divine Providence in Sterławki Wielkie in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are part of the parish of the Evangelical Chapel Congregation in Sterławki Wielkie in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sterławki Małe is located on the Polish voivodship route 592 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 135 ), which is important for traffic and connects the district towns of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Giżycko (Lötzen) . In addition, a land connection of leads Szczybały Giżyckie (Sczyballen , 1028-1945 Fine bales) at the major road 59 ( National Highway 140 ) according Sterławki times.

Sterławki Małe has been a train station on the Głomno – Białystok railway since 1868 , a section of the earlier line from Königsberg (Prussia) to Brest-Litowsk .

Web links

Commons : Sterławki Małe  - 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. 1207
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Klein Stürlack
4. ↑ Klein Stürlack
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Stürlack district
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. 80
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492