Wójtówko
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Olsztyński | ||
| Gmina : | Jeziorany | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 59 ' N , 20 ° 43' E | ||
| Residents : | 425 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-320 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NOL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ext. 593 Jeziorany - Dobre Miasto | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Wójtówko (German Voigtshof ) is a village with Sołectwo (Schulzenamt) in the town-and-country municipality Jeziorany . It is located in the Olsztyński powiat of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in north-eastern Poland .
geography
Geographical location
Wójtówko is located in the west of the Masurian Lake District , which belongs to the Baltic ridge . Numerous lakes, rivers, as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the area. The distance to Biskupiec is 27, to Dobre Miasto 23, to Jeziorany two and to Olsztyn 36 kilometers.
geology
The landscape has been shaped by the ice sheet and is a postglacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine with many channels , inland lakes and rivers.
history
Originally the southern Gau Barten of the Prussians was here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Warmia was subordinated to the Crown of Poland as an autonomous duchy of Warmia . With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia .
Voigtshof belonged to the Rößel district from 1818 to 1945 . In 1874 the Voigtshof district was formed here, which was renamed Walkeim district in 1929.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Voigtshof belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Voigtshof, 80 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.
After January 20, 1945 Voigtshof was captured by the Red Army . After the end of the war the village became part of the People's Republic of Poland and was called Wojtówko until 2009 - after that it was called Wójtówko .
Personalities
- Hermann Ganswindt (1856–1934), designer and inventor
- Hans Kramer (1896–1982), head forester and last East Prussian elk hunter master
Web links
- Voigtshof (Lokau) at gov.genealogy.net
- Voigtshof, Wójtówko at GenWiki
- Voigtshof estate at GenWiki
- Wójtówko - Voigtshof at ostpreussen.net (2005)
- Voigtshof - local information according to D. Lange
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku March 31, 2011 (Polish) accessed on May 28, 2017
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Voigtshof / Walkeim district, accessed in August 2014
- ↑ 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