Zgniłocha

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Zgniłocha
Zgniłocha does not have a coat of arms
Zgniłocha (Poland)
Zgniłocha
Zgniłocha
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olsztyn
Gmina : Purda
Geographic location : 53 ° 34 '  N , 20 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '45 "  N , 20 ° 33' 45"  E
Residents : 158 (2011)
Postal code : 10-687
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NOL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 58 : Olsztynek - KurkiJedwabno - Szczytno - Pisz - Szczuczyn
Ext. 598 : Olsztyn - Butryny → Zgniłocha
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Zgniłocha ( German  Gimmendorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Purda (rural community Groß Purden ) in the powiat Olsztyński ( Allenstein district ).

Geographical location

Zgniłocha is located south of the Gimmen Lake ( Jezioro Gim in Polish ) in the southwestern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers north of the former district town of Neidenburg ( Nidzica in Polish ) and 24 kilometers southeast of today's district metropolis Olsztyn ( Allenstein in German ).  

history

Gimmendorf was founded around 1696 and later gained national importance due to its two brick factories . Between 1874 and 1945 the rural community of Gimmendorf was incorporated into the Balden district (in Polish Bałdy ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg .

350 inhabitants were registered in Gimmendorf in 1910. Their number rose to 396 by 1933 and totaled 370 in 1939.

With all of southern East Prussia , Gimmendorf came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war . The village received the Polish form of the name "Zgnilocha" and today - as the seat of a Schulz Office (Polish Sołectwo ) - a town in the network of rural community Purda (United Purden) in Olsztyn County (Kreis Allenstein ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Province Belonging to Warmia-Masuria . In 2011 Zgniłocha had 158 inhabitants.

church

Gimmendorf was parish up to 1945 in the Evangelical Church Kurken (Polish Kurki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , also in the Roman Catholic Church Wuttrienen (Polish Butryny ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Zgniłocha belongs to the Protestant parish in Olsztynek (Hohenstein) , a branch parish of the parish in Olsztyn (Allenstein) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , as well as to the Catholic Church Butryny, which is now assigned to the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Zgniłocha is at the end of the provincial road 598 coming from Olsztyn , which joins the busy state road 58 ( Olsztynek - Szczuczyn ). There is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wieś Zgniłocha w liczbach (Polish)
  2. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1603 (Polish)
  3. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gimmendorf
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Balden District
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local register, Neidenburg district
  7. Gmina Purda: Sołectwa (Polish)
  8. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 498
  9. circle Neidenburg in AGoFF