Wityny

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Wityny
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Wityny (Poland)
Wityny
Wityny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '44 "  N , 22 ° 20' 14"  E
Residents : 144 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-300
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 65 → Wityny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wityny ( German  Wittinnen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Wityny is located on the south bank of the Wittinner See ( Polish Jezioro Wityny , also Jezioro Jachimowo ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , three kilometers north of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The later domain Wittinnen (before 1785: Untinien ) was founded before 1532 . In 1874, the place in the newly built was District Schedlisken ( Polish Siedliska ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Sonnau" renamed - was and until 1945 the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to. In 1905 Wittinnen had 88 inhabitants.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wittinnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wittinnen, 40 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On November 1, 1928, the Wittinnen manor gave up its independence and merged with the neighboring towns of Oratzen , Szameyten and Milchbude to form the new rural community of Wittenwalde ( Oracze in Polish ).

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia , became independent again and received the Polish form of the name “Wityny”. Today the place is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Oracze and thus a place in the association of Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Wittinnen was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wityny belongs to the Catholic parish Straduny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wityny is located east of the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) and can be reached via a cul-de-sac. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1462
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wittinnen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Schedlisken / Sonnau district
  5. ↑ a b Wittinnen (District of Lyck)
  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. 88
  7. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494