Wierciejki

Wierciejki
	Wierciejki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Miłki
Geographic location :	53 ° 56 '  N , 21 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '25 "  N , 21 ° 49' 58"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-513
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Miłki / DK 63 ↔ Rydzewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wierciejki ( German  Wierczeyken , 1928 to 1945 Gregerswalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Wierciejki is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , twelve kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The founding date of the small village called Wierzeycken after 1785, Wierzeicken after 1818 and Wierczeyken until 1928 is in 1551. At that time, consisting of only a few small farms, the village was incorporated into the administrative district of Rydzewen ( Rydzewo in Polish ) in 1874, which - in 1928, was " District Rotwalde ”- existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From 1874 to 1945 Wierczeyken was also assigned to the Rydzewen registry office . In 1910, 80 inhabitants were registered in the village.

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

On April 18, 1928, Wierczeyken was renamed "Gregerswalde". The number of inhabitants was 71 in 1933 and 66 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village was transferred to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and has been using the Polish form of name "Wierciejki" since then. Today the place is integrated into the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Miłki and is thus included in the network of the rural community Miłki in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 Wierczeyken resp. Gregerswalde parish in the Protestant church Rydzewen in the church province East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Wierciejki belongs to the evangelical parish Giżycko in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the catholic branch parish Paprotki (Paprodtken , 1938 to 1945 Goldensee) of the parish church Rydzewo in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

Before 1945 the children from Wierczeyken resp. Gregerswalde founded the school in Paprodtken (1938 to 1945 Goldensee, in Polish Paprotki).

traffic

Wierciejki is located on a side road that branches off from the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Miłki (Milken) and leads to Rydzewo (Rydzewen , 1927 to 1945 Rotwalde) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1450
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gregerswalde
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Rydzewen / Rotwalde
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Wierczeyken
5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Lötzen district
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. ^ Michael Rademacher: German-Austrian local book, Lötzen district
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493