Kuligi, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Kuligi is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grodziczno, within Nowe Miasto County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Grodziczno, east of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, and south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn. Kuligi was previously known variously as Kullygy, Kullig, Kullingen (from 14.07.1908) and Kulingen (from 03.10.1908). From 1773, just after the time of the First Partition of Poland, it was part of the new province of West Prussia. Its population was mixed German and Polish. In 1905 it had a population of 165. From 1905 onwards, the village expanded with the arrival of a number of ethnic German farming families who were resettling from the Black Sea area of the Russian empire. They built new houses, a Baptist chapel, Lutheran chapel and a post office close to the railway station at Seinskau. The Baptist chapel (now a shop) and the post office remain. By 1910 there were 324 inhabitants in the village. On 20 January 1920 Kulingen was transferred to Poland without a referendum by the inhabitants, and formed part of the Polish Corridor. German inhabitants were given the option of taking Polish nationality, or selling up and leaving for Germany. A large