Szwejkówko

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Szwejkówko
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Szwejkówko (Poland)
Szwejkówko
Szwejkówko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Orzysz
Geographic location : 53 ° 47 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '59 "  N , 21 ° 54' 39"  E
Residents : 170 (2010)
Postal code : 12-250
Telephone code : (+48) 87
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 63 : OrzyszKociołek Szlachecki - Pisz
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (no regular service)
Railway station: Orzysz
Next international airport : Danzig



Szwejkówko ( German  means Schweykowen , 1938 to 1945 Schweiken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community Orzysz ( German  Arys ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Szwejkówko is located in the southeastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) .

history

The small estate Mittel Schweykowen was founded in 1550. In 1874 he was in the District Wiersbinnen ( Polish Wierzbiny ) integrated, the for loop Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The number of inhabitants in the Mittel Schweykowen manor district was 48 in 1910.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Mittel Schweykowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Central Schweykowen, 40 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

On September 30, 1928, Mittel Schweykowen was incorporated into the community of Groß Schweykowen (1938 to 1945: Scharnhorst , Polish Szwejkowo , no longer existent).

With the entire southern East Prussia came Schweykowen means that (officially confirmed on 16 July) on June 3 in "Schweiken" 1938 renamed was in 1945 in consequence of the war to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Szwejkówko". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 means Schweykowen resp. Schweiken parish into the Protestant Church of Arys in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and into the Roman Catholic Church of Arys in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Szwejkówko belongs as usual to Orzysz , which is now assigned to the Diocese of Ełk in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Szwejkówko is located west of the Polish national road 63 between Orzysz (Arys) and Kociołek Szlachecki (Adlig Kessel) and can be reached via a cul-de-sac. The next train station is Orzysz on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1260
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schweiken
  3. Rolf Jehke, District Wiersbinnen / cleats village
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  5. Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 76
  6. Gmina Orzysz
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491