Borki Wielbarskie

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Borki Wielbarskie
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Borki Wielbarskie (Poland)
Borki Wielbarskie
Borki Wielbarskie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Wielbark
Geographic location : 53 ° 24 '  N , 21 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '56 "  N , 21 ° 1' 32"  E
Residents : 66 (2011)
Postal code : 12-160
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Wielbark / DK 57 ↔ Lejkowo - Destinationsiec
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Borki Wielbarskie ( German  Borken bei Willenberg , 1938 to 1945 Borkenheide ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Wielbark (urban and rural community Willenberg ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Borki Wielbarskie is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers south of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

The prior 1871 Borken Office Willenberg , afterwards until 1938 Borken at Willenberg called and made a few yards and one for state forest Reußwalde belonging forester consisting Founded 1796th On August 4th of that year the foundation license was granted. The establishment of the place took place within the framework of the amelioration measures for the Lattanabruch . The settlers came from Schiemanen ( Polish Szymany ), Jablonken ( Jabłonka ) and Schöndamerau ( Trelkowo ). All the buildings were already there in 1804.

Between 1874 and 1945 was in the Borken District United Lattana (Polish Latana Wielka incorporated), which - for - 1938 "District Großheidenau" renamed East Prussian district Szczytno belonged.

On December 1, 1910, 118 residents were registered in Borken near Willenberg. Theirs dropped to 97 by 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Borken, 74 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland received 2 votes.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938, Borken was renamed "Borkenheide" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign sounding place names. The number of inhabitants was 86 in 1939.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Borken was also at Willenberg, resp. Borkenheide, affected by it. The village received the Polish form of the name "Borki Wielbarskie". Today it is part of the Wielbark (Willenberg) urban and rural community in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Borki Wielbarskie had 66 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945, Borken belonged to the city of Willenberg - to the Protestant church there in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and to the Roman Catholic parish in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Borki Wielbarskie is again part of the parish of Wielbark , which is now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

A school already existed in Borken in 1798. In 1900 lessons were given in a new school building.

traffic

Borki Wielbarskie is located on a side road that branches off from the Polish state road 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) and leads via Lejkowo (Röblau) to Zielciec ((Groß) Radzienen , 1938 to 1945 Hügelwalde) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

Historical recordings from Borken / Borkenheide:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Borki Wielbarskie w liczbach
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 81
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Borkenheide
  4. ↑ a b c Borken / Borkenheide at the Ortelsburg district community
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Lattana / Großheidenau
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district
  8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 93
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496