Zielony Gaj (Giżycko)

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Zielony Gaj
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Zielony Gaj (Poland)
Zielony Gaj
Zielony Gaj
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '23 "  N , 21 ° 50' 51"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Spytkowo / DK 63 ↔ Pierkunowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Zielony Gaj ( German  Spiergsten-Grünwalde , 1938 to 1945 Spirgsten-Grünwalde ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Zielony Gaj is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is seven kilometers to the southwest to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

Until July 18, 1839, the small manor village, then called "Spiergsten-Grünwalde", was called Abbau Hillenhagen . Since its inception it was a dwelling place of Pietzonken (1930 to 1945 Grünau, Polish Pieczonki ), which until 1945 the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1905 Spiergsten-Grünwalde had 46 inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Spiergsten-Grünwalde belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Spiergsten-Grünwalde, 40 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

In correspondence with the neighboring village of Spiergsten (Spytkowo in Polish), the spelling of the place name was changed to “Spirgsten-Grünwalde” on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938.

In 1945, the place was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and now bears the Polish name form "Zielony Gaj". Today it is part of the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Spiergsten- or Spirgsten-Grünwalde was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Zielony Gaj belongs to the parish pw św. Kazimierza Królewicza in Giżycko with a branch church in Pieczonki (Pietzonken , 1930 to 1945 Grünau) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Parish in Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Zielony Gaj is located on a side road that connects the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ) near Spytkowo with Pieczonki . Pieczonki was also the nearest train station on the Giżycko – Kruklanki line , which has ceased operations until 1987 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code List 2013, p. 1612
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Spirgsten-Grünwalde
  3. ↑ Spiergsten-Grünwalde
  4. ↑ 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. 82
  5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492