Arklity

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Arklity
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Arklity (Poland)
Arklity
Arklity
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 21 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '47 "  N , 21 ° 20' 42"  E
Residents : 79 (2010)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Aptynty / ext. 591 ↔ Mołtajny - Asuny
Kotki - Błędowo → Arklity
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



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

Geographical location

Arklity is located on the north bank of Lake Arklitter ( Jezioro Arklickie in Polish ) and four kilometers south of the border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast , eight kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (now Schelesnodoroschny in Russian ) and 24 kilometers north of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).  

View of the Arklitter Lake (Jezioro Arklickie)
Rural property with stork nest in Arklity

history

Place name

The Prussian place name indicates animal husbandry, but the linguists do not agree: "arklys": horse or "Erkele": sheep louse.

Local history

Arkelites were mentioned as Erkelites in 1359 and 1401 . At the beginning of the 16th century, the estate on which Arklity is located today was owned by the von Schlieben family , and later by the Franconian barons and counts von and zum Egloffstein . In 1784 Albrecht von und zum Egloffstein had the castle built. In 1785 there were three houses here. The Arklitten manor remained in the possession of Count Egloffstein until they fled in 1945.

From the administrative reform in 1818 the village belonged to the district Gerdauen in the administrative district of Konigsberg in East Prussia . On April 9, 1874, Arklitten became a district village and thus gave its name to an administrative district that existed until 1934 and was then renamed "District Molthainen". In 1910 the Arklitten manor had 495 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the Arklitten Manor gave up its independence and was incorporated into Molthainen ( Mołtajny in Polish ). The exclave Egloffstein ( Polish Główczyno ) belonging to the manor district Arklitten came to the rural community of Bieberstein (Polish Bobrowo ).

As a result of the war, Arklitten was transferred to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . The place received the Polish form of the name "Arklity". In 1970 207 people lived here. 1973 the place became part of the place Mołtajny (until 1938 Molthainen , 1938 to 1945 Molteinen ) in the municipality Skandawa (Skandau) , from 1977 in the municipality Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński (district Rastenburg) . During the Second World War, the barracks of a sub-camp of Stalag I A were located on Arklitter See . In 2010 the place had 79 inhabitants.

Arklitten District (1874–1934)

The district of Arklitten existed for 60 years and was renamed on October 15, 1934 in "District of Molthainen" and on November 8, 1938 in "District of Molteinen". Originally there were four villages, in the end there were two:

German name Polish name Remarks
Arklitten Arklity 1928 incorporated into Molthainen
Bieberstein Bobrowo
Molthainen
1938–1945 Molteinen		 Mołtajny
Darling Czaczek In 1887 reclassified to Willkamm in the district of the same name

On October 14, 1934, Bieberstein and Molthainen (Molteinen) were still part of the renamed Molthainen district.

Castle of the Counts von und zu Egloffstein

Ruins (I) of Arklitten Castle in Arklity
Ruins (II) of Arklitten Castle
Former manor barn
In the old castle park

Albrecht Freiherr von und zum Egloffstein (1720–1791) had the elegant Arklitten Castle built in the late Baroque style from 1780 to 1782. It was a two-storey plastered building in the late Baroque style with an early classical portico with four columns and an excellently proportioned attic. The building was painted yellow in the areas with white divisions / facade details. The house had 15 axes and a basement plinth that protruded considerably above the surrounding ground level. The castle had a high mansard roof with red clay pans. A wide, curved driveway ended in front of the central portico at the level of the ground floor. Two-axis side wings flanked the central building. The continuation of these side wings formed a double avenue leading to the house. Arklitten was one of the most important palace buildings of the second half of the 18th century in East Prussia.

Already during the Russian occupation of East Prussia during the First World War, the rich interior was affected and the portrait collection was greatly decimated. In 1964 the castle was renovated. The castle was still used as a children's home and administration building until the 1970s. After that the house fell into disrepair and was used as a source of raw materials for surrounding buildings. Today only remnants of the basement walls are preserved in the overgrown park.

church

Until 1945 Arklitten was parish in the Protestant Church of Molthainen 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 (now in Russian Chernyachovsk ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the majority Catholic population of Arklity belongs to the parish of St. Anna Mołtajny in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant church members orient themselves towards the parish of Barciany , a branch parish of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Local road in Arklity

Arklity can be reached via a side road that branches off at Aptynty (Aftinten) from Voivodship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ) and leads via Mołtajny to Asuny (Assaunen) . In addition, a side road from Kotki (Krausen) via Błędowo (Blandau) ends in Arklity.

There is no train connection. Until 1945 Molthainen (Molteinen) was the next train station. It was on the Barten – Gerdauen railway line , which was used by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen , but has been closed since 1945.

Personalities

Native of the place

  • Werner O. Packull (born July 14, 1941 in Arklitten), Canadian historian and church historian of German descent († 2018)

Connected to the place

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 161 (Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur) .
  • Wulf D. Wagner: Stations on a coronation journey . Catalog for the exhibition from April 14, 2001 - October 31, 2001 in the renaissance castle Demerthin. Self-published, Berlin 2001, pp. 121–125.
  • Wulf D. Wagner: Culture in rural East Prussia. History. Goods and people in the Gerdauen district, volume 1. Husum 2008.

Web links

Commons : Arklity  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Barciany (powiat kętrzyński, województwo warmińsko-mazurskie) w 2010 r. ( Online query ).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 8
  3. ^ Rozalia Przybytek: Hydronymia Europaea, place names of Baltic origin in the southern part of East Prussia. Stuttgart 1993, p. 13; Georg Gerullis: The old Prussian place names. Berlin / Leipzig 1922, p. 11.
  4. ↑ a b c Rolf Jehke, Arklitten / Molthainen / Molteinen district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Gerdauen
  6. ↑ Kętrzyn. Olsztyn 1978, p. 208
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
  8. ↑ Arklitten at GenWiki