Urwitałt

Urwitałt
	Urwitałt
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Mrągowo
Gmina :	Mikołajki
Geographic location :	53 ° 48 '  N , 21 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '19 "  N , 21 ° 38' 34"  E
Height :	117 m npm
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NMR
Economy and Transport
Street :	Woźnice / DK 16 - Grabnik Mały - Osa ↔ Łuknajno
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Urwitałt ( German  Georgenthal ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Mikołajki ( German  Nikolaiken ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Urwitałt is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Lucknainer ( Jezioro Łuknajno in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers southeast of the district town of Mrągowo (Sensburg) .

Biological Research Institute (“Stacja Terenowa”) in Urwitałt

history

Today's hamlet ( Polish Osada ) Urwitałt was founded in 1705 as the Georgenthal estate . In 1874 the Georgenthal estate was part of the newly established Lucknainen district ( Łuknajno in Polish ) in the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Georgenthal belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Georgenthal, 20 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On September 30, 1928, Georgenthal gave up its independence and formed the new rural community together with Grünhof ( Leśny Dwór in Polish ), Lucknainen ( Łuknajno ), Ossa (1938 to 1945 Schwanhof , Osa in Polish ), Pienkowen (no longer existent) and the Lucknainerbude fishing abbey Lucknainen.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Georgenthal was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Urwitałt" and is now a village in the network of the urban and rural municipality Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . The place has supraregional importance through the settlement of a biological research institute of the University of Warsaw ("Stacja Terenowa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego").

Population numbers

year	number
1818	29
1839	26th
1867	38
1885	22nd
1898	17th
1905	14th
1910	10

church

Until 1945 Georgenthal was parish in the Protestant Church of Schimonken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Urwitałt belongs to the Protestant parish church Mikołajki in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the parish Woźnice (Wosnitzen , 1938 to 1945 Julienhöfen) in the diocese of Ełk of the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Urwitałt is located south of the Polish DK 16 (former German Reichsstrasse 127 ) and can be reached from here via Woźnice and Osa on a side road. There is no connection to the rail network .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Georgenthal
2. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Lucknainen, Olschewen / Erlenau
3. ↑ 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. 112
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Georgenthal (District Sensburg) at GenWiki
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 501
6. ^ Parafia Woźnice, Diecezja Ełk