Troksy

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Troksy
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Troksy (Poland)
Troksy
Troksy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Bartoszyce
Gmina : Bisztynek
Geographic location : 54 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '28 "  N , 21 ° 3' 49"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-230
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NBA
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 594 : Bisztynek / DK 57 - SątopyCzarnowiec - Reszel - Kętrzyn / ext. 591 / ext. 592
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Troksy ( German  Truchsen ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Bisztynek ( town and country municipality of Bischofstein ) in the Powiat Bartoszycki ( Bartenstein district ).

Geographical location

Troksy is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the eastern bank of the Zaine ( Sajna in Polish ), six kilometers west of the town of Reszel ( German Rößel ) and 26 kilometers southeast of the district town of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) .  

history

Troksy was as Lusian mentioned in 1470 for the first time and in 1785 Lusisigeyn to 1,785 small Loos Gehnen and 1820 Troxen called. The small Gutsort came in 1874 in the District Molditten ( Polish Mołdyty ) of the circle Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1820 Truchsen had 55, 1885 = 103, 1905 = 102 and 1910 = 81 inhabitants.

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

When all of southern East Prussia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Truchsen was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Troksy" and is now a village within the town and country municipality of Bisztynek (Bischofstein) in the powiat Bartoszycki ( Bartenstein district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Truchsen was parish in the Protestant church Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church in Rößel in the diocese of Warmia . Today Troksy belongs on the Protestant side to the parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and on the Catholic side to the parish of Sątopy (Santoppen) in the Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Troksy is located on Voivodeship Road 594 , which connects the two regions of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1295
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Truchsen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Molditten District
  4. a b Truchsen (Molditten) at GenWiki
  5. 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. 110