Upałty (Giżycko)

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Upałty
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Upałty (Poland)
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Upałty
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 0 '  N , 21 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '14 "  N , 21 ° 51' 46"  E
Residents : 243 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp ↔ Wydminy - Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
Upałty Małe → Upałty
Rail route : Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , closed in 1945
Next international airport : Danzig



Upałty ( German  Upalten ) 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

Upałty is located on the Great Upalter Lake ( Jezioro Upałckie Duże in Polish ) in the northeastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

Ship landing stage at Groß Upalter See 1915
View of the Jezioro Upałckie Duże (Great Upalter Lake) in 2009
"Stary Młyn" ( Old Mill ) inn in Upałty

history

The year 1471 is considered the year of foundation for the place called Groß Uppalten around 1818 , in which on March 31 the Commander of Brandenburg Veit von Gich prescribes 60 hooves for the construction of the interest village Upalten. In 1785 it was mentioned as a village with 29 fire places , in 1818 with 43 fire places and 252 souls.

In 1874 Upalten was in the newly built office district Sulimmen ( Polish Sulimy ) incorporated, which 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.

508 inhabitants were registered in Upalten in 1910. Their number rose to 564 by 1933 and totaled 550 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Upalten belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Upalten, 380 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, Upalten came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish name form "Upałty". The village is now 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 the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 (Groß) Upalten 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 Upałty belongs to the Evangelical Parish Church Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and is also oriented towards the district town on the Catholic side.

school

A school was founded in Groß Uppalten as early as 1717 and in 1945 there were two classes. It still exists today as the “ Maria Konopnicka ” elementary school.

traffic

Upałty is located on the important voivodeship road DW 655 , which leads through the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northeastern tip of the Podlaskie Voivodeship . In addition, a side street coming from the neighboring village of Upałty Małe (Klein Upalten) ends in Upałty (formerly also known as "Groß Upalten").

Between 1906 and 1945 Upalten was a train station on the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , although the train station was in the municipality of Kampen ( Kąp in Polish ). The railway line was decommissioned and not reactivated in 1945 as a result of the war.

Web links

Commons : Upałty  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 1315
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Upalten
  4. ↑ a b c d Upalten (district of Lötzen)
  5. ^ 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