Łankiejmy

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Łankiejmy (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Korsze
Geographic location : 54 ° 9 '  N , 21 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '0 "  N , 21 ° 4' 27"  E
Residents : 541 (2011)
Postal code : 11-430
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Łabędnik ↔ Korsze - Kętrzyn - Giżycko
Dłużec Wielki - Sarkajmy - Dzierżążnik → Łankiejmy
Trzeciaki - Wygoda - Suśnik → Łankiejmy
Rail route : PKP line 353: Posen – Toruń – Olsztyn – Korsze
Next international airport : Danzig



Łankiejmy [ wanˈkʲɛi̯mɨ ] ( German  Langheim ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) in the urban and rural municipality of Korsze (Korschen) .

Geographical location

Łankiejmy is located on the river Zaine ( Sajna in Polish ) in northern Poland in the historic East Prussia region , about 23 kilometers south of the Polish state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . Neighboring villages are Sarkajmy (Scharkeim) , in the east Długi Lasek (Langwäldchen) , in the south Suśnik (Sußnick) and in the west Kowalewo Małe (Wotterkeim) and Kowalewo Duże (Vorwerk Wotterkeim) . To the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ) there are 21 kilometers in a south-easterly direction.  

history

Place name

The name "Langheim" / "Łankiejmy" comes from Old Prussian : "Lanka" means "meadow" and "kaym" means "village".

Local history

Memorial stone for the 650th anniversary of the village
Former "Gasthaus Langheim" (old lettering can still be seen) in Łankiejmy
Langheim Castle around 1680 in the Alexander Duncker collection

The Tangible Langheim received in 1367 by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Winrich von Kniprode . The locator Hans Straupe received 74 Włóka land to lay out the place according to Kulm law . Presumably there was already a Prussian settlement on the site of the village .

A Gothic church was built between 1375 and 1400. A church tower was built around the turn of the 15th to the 16th century. In the 16th century the villages of Gudniki (Gudnick) and Scharkeim (Sarkajmy) belonged to the parish of Langheim.

Until the 16th century the village belonged to the Truchseß von Wetzhausen family . There are four family tombs in the church tower. Heinrich Wilhelm von der Groeben , owner of the Ponarien estate , acquired the village in 1728 and had the family crypt laid out here, among other things.

After Heinrich Wilhelm's death in 1729, his four sons ruled out the inheritance. The estate was added to Wilhelm Ludwig von der Groeben (1710–1785). He remained unmarried and in 1742 brought his fortune into a family foundation, which was supposed to enable all family members of the Groeben family to lead a befitting life. The idle and lazy were expressly excluded; in severe cases the exclusion should be complete. On the basis of benefits under the Burden Equalization Act and some residual assets in the Berlin area, the family foundation , which is recognized as a non-profit , still exists today.

Langheim became an official village on April 30, 1874, giving its name to a newly established administrative district . It existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Rastenburg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia and was initially made up of eight villages and, in the end, six villages.

The castle was built from 1798 to 1805 . When a hurricane devastated parts of East Prussia on January 17, 1818 , the church tower was destroyed. The tower was rebuilt in the same year. The castle was burned down during the Second World War . In January 1945 the Red Army took the area.

As a result of the war, Langheim became part of Poland as "Łankiejmy". From 1954 the village was the seat of a Gromada . In 1970 there was a kindergarten for 30 children, an eight-grade elementary school and a medical center in Łankiejmy. 1973 Łankiejmy became the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo ) in the municipality of Korsze. The localities of Gnojewo ( German:  Grützau ), Kowalewo Małe (Wotterkeim) and Kowalewo Duże (Vorwerk Wotterkeim) belonged to the Schulzenamt . In the village, which had a total of 541 inhabitants in 2011, Dzierżążnik (Hartels) is incorporated.

Population numbers

year number
1817 181
1910 789
1933 722
1939 733
1970 448
2011 541

District of Langheim (1874–1945)

The district of Langheim was established on April 30, 1874:

German name Polish name Remarks
Gudnick Gudniki
Heinriettenhof Wygoda Incorporated in 1928 to Wendehnen
Lablack, Vorwerk Łabławki
Langheim , village Łankiejmy
Langheim, good 1928 incorporated into the community of Langheim
Sweet nod Suśnik
Wotter germ Kowalewo Małe 1931 incorporated into Langheim
Zandersdorf Swędrówka
from 1883:
Wendehnen 		Wandajny
from 1912:
Sprenglienen		 1928 incorporated into Kremitten

On January 1, 1945, the district of Langheim still formed the following places: Gudnick, Lablack, Langheim, Sussnick, Wendehnen and Zandersdorf.

church

The Church in Łankiejmy

Already at the end of the 14th century, the choirless church was built from field and brick in Langheim , decorated with a stepped gable on the east wall. The tower, which was erected a hundred years later, then received two stepped gables. The single nave interior of the church is covered by a trapezoidal wooden ceiling and is rich in carved galleries and stalls. A crucifix from around 1515 has been preserved from the Gothic period. The church received an organ in 1822, made by Johann Scherweit from Königsberg (Prussia) .

From the Reformation until 1945 the church was a Protestant place of worship. After the war, the settlement of new Polish citizens created a Catholic community here, and the church is now their place of worship. Since then she has also been called John the Baptist .

On the Catholic side, Łankiejmy is part of the Deanery Reszel (German Rößel ) in the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, the Johanneskirche in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) is now the center of worship, supplemented by the branch church in Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Street

The Voiwodschaftsstraße 592 (former German Reichsstraße 135 ) runs through the village in a west-east direction . In a westerly direction it opens after about 21 kilometers in Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) in the country Straße 51 . In an easterly direction, the 592 leads after about 25 kilometers through Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) to Giżycko (Lötzen) . In Łankiejmy, two side streets end from the northwest from Dłużec Wielki (Groß Langwalde) and from the southeast from Trzeciaki (Dreihöfen) .

rail

Łankiejmy has had its own train station since December 27, 1871 - the day the section from Rothfließ (in Polish: Czerwonka ) to Insterburg (in Russian: Chernyachovsk ) on the Poznan – Korsze railway line opened. Until 1945 there was a train station here, which has been converted into a stopping point. Between 1945 and 1947 it was called "Długowola", after which it is still called "Łankiejmy".

air

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 90 kilometers northwest on Russian territory - and thus outside the European Union with the associated travel problems. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 170 kilometers to the west .

Personalities

Native of the place

Connected to the place

See also

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi. In: Aniela Bałanda u. a .: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic (= Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ). Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 202-204.

Web links

Commons : Łankiejmy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 686
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Langheim
  3. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 202, calls him Jan Straupe , here after "The story of Lankiejmy - Langheim" at ostpreussen.net
  4. ↑ "History of Łankiejmy - Long Home" at ostpreussen.net
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Langheim district
  6. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 203 writes from 1798 to 1804, here after “History of Lankiejmy - Langheim” at ostpreussen.net
  7. ^ Prussian country and folklore: or Description of Prussia (1835)
  8. ↑ Swat 1978, pp. 299-300
  9. ↑ a b Wieś Łankiemy w liczbach
  10. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 203
  11. ↑ Gut (692) and Dorf (97)
  12. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Rastenburg district
  13. ^ Michael Rademacher, German-Austrian local book 1871–1990
  14. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 203
  15. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 204