Łęknica (Srokowo)

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Łęknica
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Łęknica (Poland)
Łęknica
Łęknica
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Srokovo
Geographic location : 54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '8 "  N , 21 ° 27' 1"  E
Residents : 39 (2011)
Postal code : 11-420
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Wilczyny ↔ Święty Kamień - Asuny
Brzeźnica - Kałki → Łęknica
Jegławki - Skandławki → Łęknica
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Łęknica ( German  Löcknick ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Srokowo (rural community Drengfurth ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Łęknica is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (today Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 23 kilometers northeast of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

Legnicken - 1785 Löckeningken and 1895 Löcknicken called - was founded in 1492 and consisted of the village and an estate and a 1.5 kilometers southwest nearby belonging to the estate Waldhaus.

In 1818 the village became part of the newly founded East Prussian district of Gerdauen . In 1874 the rural community and the Löcknick manor district were incorporated into the newly established Bajohren district ( Großblankenfelde district from 1938 to 1945 ) of the Gerdauen district. Before 1892 the estate was integrated into the rural community. In 1935 Löcknitz was given municipal status.

As a result of the war, Löcknick was transferred to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish name form "Łęknica". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and belongs to the association of the rural community Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year local community Well total
1820 134 62 196
1885 287 89 376
1905 284
1910 233
1933 367
1939 331
2011 39

church

Until 1945, Löcknick was incorporated into the Protestant Church of Assaunen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and also into the Catholic Church of St. Bruno Insterburg (now in Russian Tschernjachowsk ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia , but between 1905 and 1932 it was part of the Catholic community of Guter Hirt in Angerburg ( Polish : Węgorzewo ) re-parish.

Today Łęknica belongs to the Catholic Holy Cross Church Srokowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia and to the Protestant Church Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) , a branch church of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Łęknica is on a side street that connects Wilczyny (Wolfshagen) with Asuny (Assaunen) . From the neighboring towns of Jegławki (Jäglack) and Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) , secondary roads also end in Łęknica.

There is no longer a connection to rail traffic . Until 1945, Löcknick was a station on the Barten – Nordenburg railway line used by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen , which was not reactivated as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Łęknica w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 695
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Löcknick
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Bajohren / Großblankenfelde district
  5. ↑ a b c Löcknick at GenWiki
  6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 457