Żywki Małe

Żywki Małe
	Żywki Małe
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '19 "  N , 21 ° 57' 34"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-612
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	( Kruklanki -) ↔ Żywki - Sołtmany - Mazuchówka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Żywki Małe ( German  Luisenhof ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Żywki Małe is located on the east bank of the Great Babke Lake ( Jezioro Babka in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 21 kilometers to the north-west, today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) is 14 kilometers to the south-west.

history

Originally known as Klein Siewken and before 1898 Louisenhof , the small town was founded in 1818 as a suburb of the Siewken manor district (Żywki in Polish) and remained a residential area of the Siewken community until 1945 . It belonged to 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia , counting in 1910 only 38 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, Siewken and with him Luisenhof came to Poland . It was given the Polish form of the name "Żywki Małe" and today belongs to the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) Żywki within the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Luisenhof was parish in the Evangelical Church Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish: Giżycko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Żywki Małe is part of the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant parish of Giżycko with the subsidiary churches Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) and Wydminy (Widminnen) within the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Żywki Małe can be reached two and a half kilometers east of Kruklanki on a side road that leads via Żywki (Siewken) and Sołtmany (Soltmahnen) to Mazuchówka (Masuchowken , 1936 to 1945 Rodental) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1630
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Luisenhof
3. ↑ ^{a b} Luisenhof (Angerburg district)
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476