Wojtele

Wojtele
	Wojtele
	Wojtele
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 38 ' N , 22 ° 18' E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '11 " N , 22 ° 17' 43" E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-326
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1680N: Prostki / DK 65 - Sokółki ↔ Skarżyn - Kożuchy Małe / DK 58 (- Biała Piska )
	1921N: Rakowo Małe - Rożyńsk Wielki / 1678N → Wojtele
	Tarachy → Wojtele
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Wojtele ( German Woytellen , 1938 to 1945 Woiten ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Wojtele is located in the extreme southwest of the Gmina Prostki in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 32 kilometers east of the former district town of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) and 21 kilometers southwest of the current district metropolis of Ełk ( Lyck in German ).

history

The front of 1,579 Woytella before 1912 Woitellen and until 1938 Woytellen place indicated consisted of several small farms and homesteads.

In 1874 the place was incorporated into the district of Großrosen .

119 inhabitants were registered in Woytellen in 1910, compared to 100 in 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Woytellen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Woytellen, 80 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, for political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names, the renaming Woytellens in "Woiten". The population remained constant at 100 in 1939.

In 1945 the town was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Wojtele". Today the place is incorporated into the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Guty Rożyńskie (Gutten, Ksp. Rosinsko , Gutten R , 1938 to 1945 Reitzenstein (Ostpr.)) And a village within the rural community Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Woytellen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Groß Rosinsko in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Wojtele belongs to the parish Rożyńsk Wielki with the branch churches in Dybówko (Gut Dybowen or Diebau ) and Kurzątki (Kurziontken , 1938 to 1945 Zealand) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parishes in Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) and Ełk (Lyck) , both sub- parishes of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wojtele is on the secondary road 1680N, which connects the national roads 65 and 58 and the two municipal areas of Prostki and Biała Piska . In addition, the 1921N side road coming from the north ends in Wojtele. In addition, an overland route leads from the neighboring town of Tarachy, which is already in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , to the town. There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1475
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Woiten
^ Rolf Jehke, Großrosen district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 78
↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 491

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1475

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Woiten

[Jehke-3] Rolf Jehke, Großrosen district

[4] Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg

[Rademacher-5] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 78

[7] Gmina Prostki ( Memento from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[8] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 491