Łąck Wielki

Łąck Wielki
	Łąck Wielki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	53 ° 35 '  N , 21 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '56 "  N , 21 ° 16' 13"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kolonia ↔ Racibórz
Rail route :	Railway Olsztyn – Ełk Railway station: Kolonia
Next international airport :	Danzig

Łąck Wielki ( German  Lontzig ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Łąck Wielki is located southeast of the Ratzeburg Lake ( Jezioro Świętajno Łąckie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).  

history

Lontzig - later to differentiate it from Klein Lontzig in the municipality of Gellen , about 12 kilometers further north and no longer existent today, also called Groß Lontzig - was founded in 1749 and consisted of a few farms and farms until 1945. The manor district of Lontzig came in 1874 to the East Prussian district of Schwentainen (1938 to 1945 "District Altkirchen (Ostpr.)", Polish Świętajno ) in the Ortelsburg district .

In 1910 the Lontzig manor had 107 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, he was incorporated into the neighboring community of Grünwalde ( Kolonia in Polish ).

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Lontzig, 59 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

Lontzig was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war, along with all of southern East Prussia . Lontzig received the Polish name form "Łąck Wielki" and is today "część wsi Kolonia" (= "part of the village Kolonia") within the Gmina Świętajno (rural community Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.) ) In the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Lontzig was parish in the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen (Ortelsburg district) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Łąck Wielki belongs on the Protestant side to the Szczytno Church in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , as well as to the Catholic St. Andrew Bobola Parish Church in Świętajno with the branch parish in Kolonia in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Łąck Wielki is located on a side road that leads from Kolonia (Grünwalde) to Racibórz (Ratzeburg) on the east bank of the Ratzeburg Lake ( Jezioro Świętajno Łąckie ). Kolonia is also the nearest train station and is on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) railway line .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Lontzig
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Schwentainen / Altkirchen (Eastern Pr.)
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
4. ^ Grünwalde at the Ortelsburg district community
5. ↑ 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. 96
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
7. ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF