Łuka (Rozogi)

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Łuka
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Łuka (Poland)
Łuka
Łuka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Rozogi
Geographic location : 53 ° 26 '  N , 21 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '44 "  N , 21 ° 9' 56"  E
Residents : 171 (2011)
Postal code : 12-114
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Wielbark / DK 57 - Destinationsiec ↔ Księży Lasek
Młyńsko / DK 53 - Lipowiec → Łuka
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Łuka ( German  Lucka , 1938 to 1945 Luckau (Ostpr.) ) Is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Rozogi (Friedrichshof) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Łuka is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Szczytno ( German  Ortelsburg ).

history

Lucka , after 1820 Lukka , was mentioned for the first time in 1760. Belonging was forester Luckabude (1938-1945 Luckau, forestry , Polish Luckie Budy ) and of regional importance, a sawmill , which stood one kilometer east of the village.

In 1874 Lucka and the forestry department were incorporated into the newly established district of Fürstenwalde ( Księży Lasek in Polish ) in the Ortelsburg district in East Prussia .

The community of Lucka counted 341 inhabitants in 1910, in 1933 there were 357. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Lucka, 260 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Lucka was renamed "Luckau (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons of the defense against foreign-sounding place names. The population was 341 in 1939.

Luckau was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia . The village received the Polish name form "Łuka" and is - as the official seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the rural community Rozogi (Friedrichshof) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Ostrołęka Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated. In 2011 Łuka had 171 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Lucka resp. Luckau parish into the Evangelical Church of Fürstenwalde in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and into the Roman Catholic Church of Groß Leschienen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Łuka continues to belong to the parish of Lesiny Wielkie on the Catholic side , which has now been expanded to include the branch church in Księży Lasek and is assigned to the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, the village now belongs to the church in Szczytno in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

The village school was founded by Friedrich Wilhelm III. In 1939 50 children were taught in two classes.

traffic

Łuka can be reached from the city of Wielbark (Willenberg) on state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) and from Młyńsko on state road 53 ( Reichsstraße 134 ). There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Historical recordings from Lucka / Luckau:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Łuka w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 752
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Luckau (Ostpr.)
  4. ↑ a b Lucka / Luckau at the district community of East Prussia
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Fürstenwalde district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 96
  9. ^ Urząd Gminy Rozogi: Sołectwa
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
  11. ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF