Łękuk Mały

Łękuk Mały
	Łękuk Mały
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Wydminy
Geographic location :	54 ° 3 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '13 "  N , 22 ° 8' 38"  E
Residents :	100 (2009)
Postal code :	11-510
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Gajrowskie - Orłowo → Łękuk Mały
	Róg Orłowski → Łękuk Mały
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Łękuk Mały ( German  Klein Lenkuk (Gut) ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Łękuk Mały is located on the south bank of Lake Klein Lenkuk ( Jezioro Łękuk in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 25 kilometers east of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The former Klein Lenkuk , written Klein Lenkuck in 1785 , was an estate in the municipality of Rhog ( Róg Orłowski in Polish ) until 1945 , which itself took the name of the estate in 1938. In terms of the registry office , Klein Lenkuk was oriented towards Orłowo (Orlowen , 1938 to 1945 Adlersdorf) . The small estate had a total of 80 inhabitants in 1905.

As a result of the war , Klein Lenkuk came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish name form "Łękuk Mały". Today the small place is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Orłowo and is thus a place within the rural municipality Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Klein Lenkuk was parish in the Evangelical Church of Orlowen 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 Łękuk Mały belongs to the protestant church Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and the Catholic parish church of St. Casimir Orłowo in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Łękuk Mały can be reached via two sometimes impassable side streets that lead from Gajrowskie (Friedrichsheyde , 1938 to 1945 Friedrichsheide) in the east and from Róg Orłowski (Rhog , 1938 to 1945 Klein Lenkuk) from the north.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 695
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Klein Lenkuk
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Klein Lenkuk
4. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492