Strzelce (Giżycko)

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Strzelce
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Strzelce (Poland)
Strzelce
Strzelce
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 53 ° 59 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '14 "  N , 21 ° 45' 43"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 643 : Wilkasy ↔ Bogaczewo - Szymonka - Olszewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Strzelce ( German  Strzelzen , 1938 to 1945 Zweischützen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Lötzen in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Strzelce is located on the west bank of the Niegocin ( German  Löwentinsee ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is six kilometers to the north.

history

The Gutsdorf, known as Strzelzen after 1785 and Strzelzen until 1938 , was founded in 1547. In 1785 it was named as a " köllmisches Gut" with five fireplaces , and in 1818 also with four fireplaces for 49 souls.

In 1874 the village to the recently completed came District Will cash (Polish Wilkasy), which - in 1938 in "District Wolfsee" renamed - existed until 1945 and the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged .

In 1910 Strzelzen had 72 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Strzeltzen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Strzeltzen, 60 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

On September 30, 1928, the village gave up its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Willkassen . On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Strzelzen was renamed "Zweischützen" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign place names.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Strzelce”. The place belongs today to the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) Wilkasy within the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Strzelzen resp. Zweischützen 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 . The ecclesiastical connection to the district town has remained to this day.

traffic

Strzelce is located on Voivodship Road 643 , which runs from Wilkasy in a southerly direction to Olszewo (Olschewen , 1938 to 1945 Erlenau) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). There is no train connection.

Ski jump

In 1933/34 the Lötzener Ski Association built a ski jump in the Strzelzer Wald . In 1934 the East Prussian ski championships were held here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1456
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Zweischützen
  3. ↑ a b c Strzelzen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Willkassen / Wolfsee
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492