Witówko

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Witówko
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Witówko (Poland)
Witówko
Witówko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Jedwabno
Geographic location : 53 ° 32 '  N , 20 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '13 "  N , 20 ° 52' 25"  E
Residents : 69 (2011)
Postal code : 12-122
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Warchały / DK 58 → Witówko
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Witówko ( German  Ittowken , 1938 to 1945 Ittau ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Witówko is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 35 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Neidenburg ( Nidzica in Polish ) and nine kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

View of Witówko

history

Village street in Witówko

The small village with later - to the State Forest Green mountains - belonging forester was established in 1701. The rural municipality Ittowken in 1874 in the newly built office district Burdungen (Polish Burdąg ) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and the East Prussian district of Neidenburg belonged. The village had 317 inhabitants in 1910, in 1933 there were already 356.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Ittowken was renamed “Ittau” for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-looking place names . The number of inhabitants decreased to 334 by 1939.

As a result of the war, Ittau was transferred to Poland in 1945, along with all of southern East Prussia . The village received the Polish form of the name "Witówko". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) and is part of the rural community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Ittowken resp. Ittau was parish in the Protestant church Neuhof (Neidenburg district) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic parish church Jedwabno in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Witówko belongs on the catholic side to the St. Adalbert Church Nowy Dwór in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , on the Protestant side to the parish Jedwabno in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Entrance to Witówko

Witówko is the end of a side road that branches off from State Road 58 at Warchały (Warchallen) and leads directly into the village. There is no connection between the village and rail traffic .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieś Witowko w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1461 (Polish)
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Ittau
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Burdungen district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495