Blanki
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Lidzbarski | ||
| Gmina : | Lidzbark Warmiński | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 1 ' N , 20 ° 38' E | ||
| Residents : | 160 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NLI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Blanki (German Blankensee ) is a village in the rural municipality Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) in the Powiat Lidzbarski (Heilsberg district) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in historic East Prussia on the lake of the same name, the Blankensee , about ten kilometers south of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 30 kilometers north of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).
history
In the 13th century the village belonged to the domain of the Teutonic Order . After the division of the Teutonic Order State of Prussia in the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the village with the Duchy of Warmia came to the autonomous Prussian Royal Share , which had voluntarily submitted to the suzerainty of the Polish crown. In the course of the reunification of East and West Prussia in 1772, Blankensee came to the Kingdom of Prussia .
In 1789 Blankensee was referred to as a royal village that had 33 fireplaces (households) and whose church was a branch of Siegriedswalde .
Until 1945 the village belonged to Blankensee district Heilsberg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia of the German Reich .
Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, the region became part of the People's Republic of Poland in the summer of 1945 according to the Potsdam Agreement, together with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia . After that, the immigration of Polish migrants began. Had not fled as far as the local villagers, they were in the aftermath of Blanki sold .
Population development until 1945
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1816 | 250 | |
| 1858 | 368 | exclusively Catholics |
| 1910 | 355 | |
| 1933 | 367 | |
| 1939 | 368 |
Parish
Until 1945, the predominantly Catholic residents of Blankensee belonged to the parish of Siegriedswalde in the Diocese of Warmia , while the Protestant part of the population was assigned to the parish Heilsberg in the parish of Braunsberg within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The Catholic church members now living in the village are assigned to the Dean's Office Lidzbark Warmiński in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members today belong to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland .
Attractions
One of the sights is the listed village church, named after the Archangel Michael , founded in 1363 as a branch of Siegfriedswalde and elevated to parish church in 1437.
Web links
- Blankensee on wiki-de.genealogy.net
- Blanki on encyklopedia.warmia.mazury.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
- ↑ a b Monumenta Historiae Warmiensis or collection of sources on the history of Warmia . Volume 3, Braunsberg 1866, p. 437.
- ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I: Topography of East Prussia . Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the East Prussian Cammer Department , p. 25.
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell, Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 1: A-F. Halle 1821, p. 124, item 2882.
- ↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 110, paragraph 15.
- ↑ http://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900//gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/heilsberg.htm
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heilsberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).