Wojtokiemie

Wojtokiemie
Village
Wojtokiemie
Coordinates: 54°13′N 23°13′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Sejny
Gmina	Puńsk
Population	129 [1]
Postal code	16-515 [2]
Car plates	BSE

Wojtokiemie ([vɔi̯tɔˈkʲɛmjɛ]; Lithuanian: Vaitakiemis[3]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[4] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Puńsk, 15 km (9 mi) north-west of Sejny, and 123 km (76 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.

From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.

Teacher and ethnographer, activist for the Lithuanian minority in Poland Aldona Wojciechowska was born here.

History

In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 173 and 29 homes and in 1893 it was numbered at 510 people and 50 homes.[5]

Tourist attractions

• homestead no. 3, 3rd quarter of the 19th century:[6]
• wooden house
• wooden pigsty
• wooden granary

References

1. "Population of Wojtokiemie village". Retrieved 2021-11-04.
2. "Official list of post codes" (PDF). October 2013. p. 1475. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
3. VLKK 2002.
4. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
5. "Wojtokiemie". Warsaw. 1893. p. 768.
6. "Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych – województwo podlaskie" (PDF). 30 September 2024. Retrieved 2018-04-04.

Sources

• VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian).