Boćwinka (Kruklanki)

Boćwinka
	Boćwinka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '34 "  N , 21 ° 59' 27"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kruklanki ↔ Sołtmany - Mazuchówka / ext. 655 Branch: Boćwinka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Boćwinka [ bɔt͡ɕˈfinka ] ( German  Neu Freudenthal ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycko (Lötzen) district.

Geographical location

Boćwinka is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) and 14 kilometers northeast of the current district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The small village , known at the time as Freydenthal , was founded in 1534. In the years that followed, the place found different name forms such as Neufreudenthal (around 1787), Potzwincken (before 1818), Bodschwinken (around 1818) and Neu Freudenthal (until 1945). When the District on May 6, 1874 Siewken (Polish Żywki) was built, new Freudenthal was incorporated, however, came in 1885 to the District Soltmahnen (Polish Sołtmany) and belonged until 1945 to the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The number of inhabitants was 335 in 1910. It decreased to 315 by 1925 and was 326 in 1933 and only 283 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Neu Freudenthal came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since been known as Boćwinka in Polish . It also "moved" from the then Angerburg district to today's Powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ) and forms a village in the Gmina Kruklanki (Kruglanken) group , until 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The majority Protestant population of Neu Freudenthal was parish before 1945 in the parish of the Kruglanken Church and belonged to the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . On the Catholic side , the place was integrated into the parish of Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

The inhabitants of Boćwinka, who have been predominantly Catholic since 1945, belong to the new parish in Kruklanki , whose former Protestant church is now their parish church. The parish is part of the Giżycko-św deanery . Krzysztofa (Lötzen -St. Christophorus) in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members now belong to the parish in Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Boćwinka can be reached via a feeder road that branches off a side road that connects Kruklanki (Kruglanken) with Sołtmany (Soltmahnen) and continues to Mazuchówka (Masuchowken , 1936–1945 Rodental) on the voivodship road DW 655 . There is no longer a train connection. Until 1945, Żywki (Siewken) was the next station on the Marggrabowa / Treuburg – Kruglanken (Olecko – Kruklanki) line . It was decommissioned in 1945.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Neu Freudenthal
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Siewken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Soltmahnen
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. Angerburg district. (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.