Sterławki Wielkie

Sterławki Wielkie
	Sterławki Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Ryn
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 ′  N , 21 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 21 ° 34 ′ 58 ″  E
Residents :	450 (2010)
Postal code :	11-520
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Kętrzyn ↔ Giżycko
	Ext. 642 : Woźnice - Ryn → Sterławki Wielkie
	Kronowo → Sterławki Wielkie
Rail route :	PKP line 38: Głomno – Białystok railway line
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sterławki Wielkie ( German  Groß Stürlack ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

View of Sterławki Wielkie

Geographical location

Sterławki Wielkie is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 13 kilometers west of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Groß Stürlack was founded in 1387 . Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order at the time and initiated the foundation. When the Tartars invaded the village in 1656, the then landlord Baron Georg Schenk von Tautenburg was murdered and his son Michael Wilhelm Schenk von Tautenburg was kidnapped. Only Johann Sigismund Schenk zu Tautenburg managed to return home after five years.

In 1811 Groß Stürlack was mentioned as a church village with 48 fireplaces and 411 inhabitants. On March 29, 1874, the place was Amtsdorf and thus eponymous for an administrative district . It existed until 1945 and was part of the circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 877 inhabitants registered in Groß Stürlack. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Groß Stürlack belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Groß Stürlack, 700 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the neighboring village of Adlig Stürlack ( Polish Sterławki Szlacheckie ) was incorporated into Groß Stürlack. The number of inhabitants rose to 941 by 1933 and was still 870 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Groß Stürlack came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name “Sterławki Wielkie”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Groß Stürlack district (1874–1945)

When it was established in 1874, the Groß Stürlack district consisted of six villages, in the end there were four:

Surname	Polish name	Remarks
Adlig Stürlack	Sterławki Szlacheckie	1928 incorporated into Groß Stürlack
Groß Stürlack	Sterławki Wielkie
Grzybowen 1929-1945: Birkensee	Grzybowo	1939 incorporated into Kronau
Klein Stürlack	Sterławki Małe
Kronau	Kronowo
Mertenheim	Martiany

On January 1, 1945, the district of Groß Stürlack was formed from the places Groß Stürlack, Klein Stürlack, Kronau and Mertenheim.

church

→ Main article : On Divine Providence (Sterławki Wielkie)

The former Protestant, now Roman Catholic parish church in Sterławki Wielkie

The former Evangelical Parish Church of Groß Stürlack , built in 1832, has shaped the image of the place for more than 150 years . It was already the third house of worship in town. Today there is only a small chapel of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish , whose parish office is that of the parish church in Ryn (Rhine) . It is within sight of the parish church , which has belonged to the Roman Catholic community under the name Church of Divine Providence since 1945 , which has established its own parish here with a branch chapel in Sterławki Małe (Klein Stürlack) .

Personalities of the place

• Rudolf Nadolny (born July 12, 1873 in Groß Stürlack), German diplomat († 1953)
• Walter Nadolny (born January 13, 1883 in Groß Stürlack), German lawyer and brewery director († 1958)
• Heinz-Günter Wittmann (born January 16, 1927 in Groß Stürlack), German biochemist († 1990)

traffic

Road junction with DW 592

Street

Sterławki Wielkie is located on the two voivodship roads DW 592 and DW 642 , which connect the place and its surroundings to the districts of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Mrągowo (Sensburg) . A side road leads from Kronowo (Kronau) on the Deyguhnsee ( Jezioro Dejguny in Polish ) to here.

rail

Since the construction of the railway line in 1868, Groß Stürlack (Sterławki Wielkie) has been a station on the Głomno – Białystok railway line , which began in Königsberg (Prussia) before 1945 and led to Brest-Litowsk . Today it only runs on Polish territory as line 38 of the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Web links

Commons : Sterławki Wielkie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1207
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Groß Stürlack
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sterławki Wielkie - Groß Stürlack
4. ↑ Groß Stürlack
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Jehke, Groß Stürlack district
6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
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. 79
8. ^ 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). 
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 121, Fig. 555
10. ↑ Parafia Sterławki Wielkie ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.