Sulimy (Giżycko)

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Sulimy (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 21 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '14 "  N , 21 ° 48' 49"  E
Residents : 1138 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Giżycko / DK 63 ↔ Kożuchy Wielkie
Kruklanki - Pieczonki → Sulimy
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Sulimy ( German  Sulimmen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

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

history

As a founding date to 1945 Sulimmen mentioned village October 28 is considered 1563. On this day let Duke Albrecht by Georg Krösten a Tangible over 50 hooves for the village Sullimmen issue. It was a very elongated village with 28 fire places in 1785 and 38 fire places in 1818 with 276 souls.

On March 29, 1874, Sulimmen became a district village and thus gave its name to a newly established 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 .

475 inhabitants were registered in Sulimmen in 1910. Their number decreased to 454 by 1933 and was already 496 in 1939,

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sulimmen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sulimmen, 360 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, Sulimmern came to Poland in 1945 along with the entire south of East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish name form "Sulimy". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a place within the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki, before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

Sulimmen District (1874–1945)

At the beginning there were seven villages in the administrative district of Sulimmen, in the end there were five:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945 		Polish name Remarks
Beasts Bystry 1928 in the township Lötzen incorporated
Graywen Graiwen Grajwo
Great Kosuchen Allenbruch Kożuchy Wielkie
(Big) Upalten Upałty
Kampen Cape
Little Kosuchen Kożuchy Małe In 1920 incorporated into the rural community of Groß Kosuchen
Sulimmen Sulimy

On January 1, 1945 the places Allenbruch, Graiwen, Kampen, Sulimmen and Upalten belonged to the Sulimmen district.

church

Until 1945 Sulimmen 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 Sulimy belongs to the Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, too, there is an orientation towards the district town of Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

A school was founded in Sulimmen in 1778. It was run in two classes until 1945.

Personalities

  • Werner Lemke (born July 3, 1914 in Sulimmen † September 1, 1986 in Lübeck ), former German scholar, classical philologist, philosopher and educator
  • Günter Lyhs (born April 20, 1934 in Sulimmen), former German gymnast, Olympic participant

traffic

Sulimy can be reached from the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) on a side road to Kożuchy Wielkie (Groß Kosuchen , 1938 to 1945 Allenbruch) , as well as via a road connection from Kruklanki (Kruglanken) directly to the town. There is no train connection.

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. 1222
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sulimmen
  4. ↑ a b c d Sulimmen (district of Lötzen)
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Sulimmen 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. 82
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492