Gawrzyjałki

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Gawrzyjałki
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Gawrzyjałki (Poland)
Gawrzyjałki
Gawrzyjałki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Szczytno
Geographic location : 53 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '19 "  N , 21 ° 10' 17"  E
Residents : 392 (2011)
Postal code : 12-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Olszyny / DK 53 - Niedźwiedzie ↔ Pużary - Lipowiec
Jeruty / DK 53 - Wyżega → Gawrzyjałki
Konrady → Gawrzyjałki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Gawrzyjałki ( German  Gawrzialken , 1928 to 1945 Wilhelmsthal , village ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Gawrzyjałki is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

View of Gawrzyałki

history

The founding festivals for the village called Gawrzyalken after 1820 and Gawrcialken until 1928 was issued on February 26, 1788. In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established administrative district Wilhelmsthal ( Polish : Pużary ) in the East Prussian district of Ortelsburg . In 1910 Gawrzialken had 493 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gawrzialken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Gawrzialken, 340 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928 Gut Wilhelmsthal was incorporated into Gawrzialken, and at the same time Gawrzialken was renamed "Wilhelmsthal". The number of residents was 465 in 1933 and fell slightly to 429 by 1939.

With all of southern East Prussia , Wilhelmsthal came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and received the Polish form of the name "Gawrzyałki". As the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ), the village is now part of the rural community Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Gawrzyałki had 392 inhabitants.

church

Church building

On October 8, 1908, the newly built Protestant church in Gawrzialken was inaugurated. It was built based on the brick Gothic of the Teutonic Order in a year and a half. In the chancel , the eye falls on a round window with stained glass depicting the risen Christ . Until 1945 the church was the house of God for the Protestant parish Gawrzialken. Today it is the worship center of the Roman Catholic parish of Gawrzyjałki, which was established on June 19, 1982. The church is dedicated to the bishop and martyr Adalbert of Prague .

Evangelical parish

In 1895 Gawrzialken became a Protestant parish, it was previously part of the parish of Fürstenwalde ( Polish: Księży Lasek ) or Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki ). By 1945 the parish, which in 1925 had a total of 1,672 parishioners, was incorporated into the superintendent district Ortelsburg in the parish of Ortelsburg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant community after 1945.

Evangelical residents living in Gawrzyjałki today now belong to the church in Szczytno in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic parish

Before 1945 Gawrzialken resp. Wilhelmsthal to Lipowitz (1933 to 1945 Lindenort , Lipowiec in Polish ) parish in the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled here, mostly of Roman Catholic denominations, who claimed the previously Protestant church as their church. On April 20, 1980, Catholic residents broke open the door of the church that had been used by the Protestant community up to that point and occupied it. The building had to be transferred to the Catholic Church, which established its own parish here in 1982, which is now part of the Rozogi (Friedrichshof) dean's office in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The village school in Gawrzialken was founded by Frederick the Great . In 1932 a new, two-class school building was built.

traffic

Gawrzyałki can be reached from the Polish state road 53 (former German Reichsstraße 134 ) via side roads from Olszyny (Olschienen , Ebendorf from 1938 to 1945 ) and Jeruty (Groß Jerutten) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Commons : Gawrzyjałki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Gawrzyjałki w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 253
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geography Ortregister East Prussia (2005): Wilhelmsthal
  4. ↑ a b c Gawrzialken / Wilhelmsthal at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Wilhelmsthal
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ 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. 94
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 129, Fig. 608
  10. ↑ a b Parafia Gawrzyjałki in the Archdiocese of Warmia
  11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  12. ↑ Andreas Kossert: Masuria - East Prussia's forgotten south . Pantheon, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-570-55006-9 , p. 374 .