Bajorski Gaj

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Bajorski Gaj
Bajorski Gaj does not have a coat of arms
Bajorski Gaj (Poland)
Bajorski Gaj
Bajorski Gaj
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Srokovo
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 21 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '6 "  N , 21 ° 31' 37"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-420
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Bajory Małe → Bajorski Gaj
Bajorki → Bajorski Gaj
Wyskok → Bajorski Gaj
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Bajorski Gaj ( German  Bajohrenwalde , 1938 to 1945 Blankenwalde ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Srokowo (rural community Drengfurth ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Bajorski Gaj is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 17 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (now in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 25 kilometers northeast of the current district metropolis of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

Bajohrenwalde was founded in 1846 with two courtyards and until 1945 was a residential area within the municipality of Klein Bajohren (1938 to 1945 Kleinblankenfelde , in Polish Bajory Małe ) in the East Prussian district of Gerdauen . In 1885 there were 30 residents here, and in 1905 45 residents. For ideological and political reasons to ward off foreign-sounding names, the place was renamed "Blankenwalde" on June 3 (officially effective July 16) 1938.

When southern East Prussia came to Poland as a result of the war in 1945 , Blankenwalde was also affected. It was the Polish name form "Bajorski Gaj" and today is a "Osada" (= "settlement") within the rural community Srokowo (Drengfurth) in kętrzyn county (county Rastenburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

church

Until 1945 Bajohrenwalde resp. Blankenwalde parish in the Protestant parish of Nordenburg (now in Russian Krylowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Angerburg ( Polish : Węgorzewo ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Bajorski Gaj belongs to the Catholic Holy Cross Church Srokowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , as well as to the Evangelical Church Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) , a branch church of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Bajorski Gaj is a bit away from the traffic. It can be reached directly from the neighboring villages of Bajory Małe (Klein Bajohren , Kleinblankenfelde from 1938 to 1945 ) , Bajorki (Bajohrental , Blankental from 1938 to 1945 ) and Wyskok (Friedenshof) .

There is no longer a connection to rail traffic . Until 1945, Bajohrenwalde or Blankenwalde was a train station on the Barten – Nordenburg railway , which the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen used, but was not reactivated as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 11
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Blankenwalde
  3. ↑ a b c Bajohrenwalde at GenWiki