Święty Kamień (Barciany)

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Święty Kamień
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Święty Kamień (Poland)
Święty Kamień
Święty Kamień
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 19 ′  N , 21 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 50 ″  N , 21 ° 24 ′ 31 ″  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Aptynty / ext. 591 - Mołtajny - Asuny ↔ Łęknica - Wilczyny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Święty Kamień ( German  Heiligenstein ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Święty Kamień is located 500 meters east of the Omet River in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (today in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 26 kilometers north of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

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history

The once large Gut Heiligenstein was founded in 1814/18. In 1874 which was Gutsbezirk Heiligenstein in the newly built office district Korklack ( Polish Kurkławki ) integrated, the for loop Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Heiligenstein had 179 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, Heiligenstein's independence ended; the village was incorporated into the rural community Assaunen (Polish Asuny ).

In 1945, as a result of the war, Heiligenstein and all of southern East Prussia were transferred to Poland . The village was given the Polish form of the name "Święty Kamień" and is now part of the rural community Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945, Heiligenstein was parish in the parish of the Protestant Church of Assaunen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Bruno Insterburg (today in Russian Chernyachovsk ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Święty Kamień belongs to the parish Mołtajny (Molthainen , 1938 to 1945 Molteinen) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , on the Protestant side to the parish of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn with its branch communities Barciany (Barten) and Brzeźnica ( Evangelical Augsburg Church in the Evangelical Masurian Church ) in the diocese of Augsburg .

traffic

Święty Kamień is located on a side street that runs from Voivodeship Road 591 (former German Reichsstrasse 141 ) via Mołtajny and Asuny to Wilczyny (Wolfshagen) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Commons : Święty Kamień  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1274
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Heiligenstein
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Korklack / Assaunen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Gerdauen
  5. ↑ a b Heiligenstein at GenWiki
  6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 457