Wejdyki

Wejdyki
	Wejdyki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Ryn
Geographic location :	53 ° 55 '  N , 21 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '56 "  N , 21 ° 29' 45"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	( Ryn -) DK 59 → Wejdyki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wejdyki ( German  Weydicken , 1938 to 1945 Weidicken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Ryn (Rhine) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Wejdyki is located on the north bank of the Jezioro Ryńskie ( German  Rheiner See ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 23 kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) and four kilometers southwest of the city of Ryn (Rhine) .

history

The village called Cathymedien before 1785 was founded in 1415. As Weydicken it was then in the 1874 District Gneist ( Polish Knis ) 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.

From 1874 to 1912 Weydicken was assigned to the registry office Gneist (Knis), then until 1945 to the registry office Rhein (Ryn).

In 1910, 293 inhabitants were registered in Weydicken. Their number decreased to 288 by 1933 and was still 245 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Weydicken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Weydicken, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, the name spelling for Weydicken was changed to Weidicken .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and now bears the Polish form of the name “Wejdyki”. The village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and as such belongs to the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Weydicken resp. Weidicken was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of the Rhine in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wejdyki belongs to the Evangelical Parish in Ryn in the Masuria Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish Immaculate Conception of Mary in Ryn in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Wejdyki is located east of the Polish state road DK 59 (former German Reichsstraße 140 ) and can be reached via a spur road. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Weidicken
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gneist District
3. ↑ ^{a b} Weidicken at GenWiki
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
5. ^ 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). 
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 492-493.