Ławki (Ryn)

Ławki (village and settlement)
	Ławki (village and settlement)
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Ryn
Geographic location :	53 ° 55 '  N , 21 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '48 "  N , 21 ° 34' 59"  E
Residents :	110 (2006)
Postal code :	11-520
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ryn / ext. 642 → Ławki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Ławki (village) and Ławki (settlement / osada) - ( German  Lawken , 1938 to 1945 Lauken , village, and Lawken , 1938 to 1945 Lauken , domain ) - are two localities in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belong to the city ​​and Rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

The village of Ławki - and to the south of it the settlement ( Polish osada ) Ławki - is located on the east bank of Lake Lawker (1938 to 1945 Lauker See, Polish Jezioro Ławki) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 19 kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen ) and three kilometers southeast of the city of Ryn (Rhine) .

history

Lawken was founded in 1499. In 1785 it was a village with 34 fire places, in 1818 it was a farming village with 18 fire places and 135 souls.

To the south was the Lawken estate, the later domain . It has existed since the 17th century and was extensively changed at the turn of the 20th century: farm buildings and a distillery were built . The manor house was also expanded at that time. In the 1920s, the property went bankrupt, was taken over by the state and leased. The property, which is in good condition, is now private property.

When Lawken became an official village on March 29, 1874, and thus eponymous for an administrative district, the parish Lawken and the manor district Lawken were incorporated. The county - between 1938 and 1945 renamed "District Lauken" - belonged to the circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905-1945 Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

From 1874 to 1913, the Lawken community and the Lawken estate were part of the Orlen registry office district ( Orło in Polish ). After its dissolution both came to the registry office in Rhine (Ryn).

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Lawken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Lawken, 220 residents voted, in Lawken (domain) 100, to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

419 inhabitants lived in Lawken in 1910, 263 in the village and 156 in the manor district. On September 30, 1928, the community and the manor district of Lawken merged, and the neighboring town of Hermanawolla (Polish: Hermanowa Wola) was incorporated into Lawken. The number of inhabitants changed to 423 by 1933 and in 1939 - now the place was officially called "Lauken" - to 464.

As a result of the war, Lawken came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Ławki”. Both places now appear separately as a village (Polish: wieś) and a settlement (Polish: osada). The unofficial residential area Ławki Małe , a few hundred meters southeast on Jezioro Szymonek, also belongs to the village of Ławki . The village and settlement Ławki are localities in the network of the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki , before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Lawken / Lauken district (1874–1945)

When it was established, the Lawken district consisted of nine villages:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Bartlickshof		Bartlikowo	1928 incorporated into Grünwalde
Grünwalde		Zielony Lasek
Hermanawolla	(from 1929 :) Hermannshorst	Hermanowa Wola	1928 incorporated into Lawken
Justusberg		Siejkowo	1928 incorporated according to the number of beets
Lawken, village	Lukewarm	Ławki
Lawken, domain	Lauken, domain	Ławki	1928 incorporated into Lawken
Mrowken	(from 1929 :) New forest	Mrówki
Number of beets		Rybical
Scorpio	(from 1927 :) Schalensee	Skorupki

On January 1, 1945, Grünwalde, Lauken, Neuforst, Rübenzahl and Schalensee still belonged to the Lauken district.

Religions

The two localities Lawken resp. Until 1945 Lauken were parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of the Rhine in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Catholic parish church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg (Polish Mrągowo) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Ławki belongs to the Evangelical Parish in Ryn in the Masuria Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Ławki now forms its own parish with its own church, a branch church of the Parish Immaculate Conception of Mary in Ryn in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

Due to the school reform of Friedrich Wilhelm I , a school was founded in Lawken. In 1945 she had two classes. Grünwalde (in Polish Zielony Lasek) belonged to the school community .

traffic

Ławki and Ławki (osada) are a bit away from the traffic and can only be reached directly from the town of Ryn (Rhine) via a side street .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 688
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Lauken, Dorf undomain
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Lawken
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Domain Lawken
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ławki - Lawken / Lauken
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, District Lawken / Lauken
7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 80
8. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
9. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 492–493
11. ^ Parafia Ryn ( Memento of April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )