Żabinka (Kruklanki)

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Żabinka
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Żabinka (Poland)
Żabinka
Żabinka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Kruklanki
Geographic location : 54 ° 8 ′  N , 22 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 40 "  N , 21 ° 59 ′ 31"  E
Residents : 100 (2006)
Postal code : 11-612
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Jasieniec ↔ Diabła Góra
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Żabinka (until 2010: Żabinki, German  Zabinken , 1938 to 1945 high seas ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Żabinka is located east of the Zabinker See (1938 to 1945 Hochseer See, in Polish Jezioro Żabinka ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is 19 kilometers to the northwest to the former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo), and the current district metropolis of Giżycko (Lötzen) is 17 kilometers to the southwest.

history

The place then called Zabinek was founded in 1713. Before 1785 Zabienen after 1785 Zabynken and until 1938 Zabinken called, the village came in 1874 for District cowls , which existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 185 inhabitants were registered in Zabinken. Their number rose to 215 by 1925, was 228 in 1933 and was 193 in 1939.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Zabinken was renamed “Hochsee” for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names. In 1945 the village was "transferred" to Poland in the wake of the war with the whole of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Żabinki", which was changed to "Żabinka" in 2010. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ), which includes Budziska Leśne , Dąbek (Oak Hill) , Diabla Góra (Devil's Hill ) , Podleśne (Knobbenort) and Żabinka. It belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ) , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Zabinken resp. Before 1945, Hochsee was parish in the Protestant church Kutten (Polish: Kuty) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Żabinka belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) with the subsidiary community of Pozezdrze (Possesseren , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Żabinka is on a side street that connects Jasieniec (Groß Eschenort) with Diabla Góra (Devil's Mountain) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code List 2013, p. 1618
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register Ostpreußen (2005): Hochsee
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kutten district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476