Łęsk

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Łęsk
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Łęsk (Poland)
Łęsk
Łęsk
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '16 "  N , 21 ° 26' 0"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Wikrowo → Łęsk
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Lesk ( German  Lenz germ , and 1904 concerns stone ) is a small place in the Polish Province Masuria . He belongs to Gmina Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Łęsk is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers northeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

In 1827 what was then Sorgestein was founded. In the official gazette of the royal Prussian government zu Königsberg , 1827, No. 30, Regulation No. 136, the date of June 22nd, 1827 was to be read: That the parishes, which were dismantled by the noble estate Baumgarten, in the Rastenburg district, as a result of the regulated landlord and peasant conditions, were close to Barten, between the villages of Baumgarten, Wickerau, Jeglack and Marienthal located and provided with two residential buildings, the name Sorgenstein with the approval of the Königl. East Prussia. Government has been settled, is thereby brought to the public knowledge.

The later Gutsbezirk worry stone in 1874 in the District Baumgarten ( Polish Ogródki ) in the county Rastenburg , Administrative district Königsberg , in the Prussian province of East Prussia incorporated. In 1885, there were 72 registered residents in Sorgenstein.

On January 15, 1904, Sorgenstein was renamed "Lenzkeim", the population was 62 in 1905 and 71 in 1910. On September 30, 1928, Lenzkeim merged with the manor districts of Baumgarten ( Polish: Ogródki ) and Wickerau ( Wikrowo ) to form the new rural community of Baumgarten together.

In war-induced germ Lenz in 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Lesk". Today it is an "opuszczony przysiółek" ("an abandoned hamlet") within the rural community Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Worry stone resp. Until 1945 Lenzkeim was parish in the Protestant Church of Barten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Katharina Rastenburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Łęsk belongs to the parish church of Barciany in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia and, on the Protestant side, to the parish in Barciany, which is now a subsidiary of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Łęsk can be reached via a side road that leads from Wikrowo (Wickerau) . There is no longer a connection to rail traffic . Until 1945 Lenzkeim was a train station on the Barten – Nordenburg railway line , which - in turn, was used by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen - was not reactivated after 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Lenzkeim
  2. ↑ quoted from: Lenzkeim at GenWiki
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Baumgarten district
  4. ↑ a b c Lenzkeim at GenWiki
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473