Brajniki

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Brajniki
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Brajniki (Poland)
Brajniki
Brajniki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Jedwabno
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 20 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '26 "  N , 20 ° 48' 41"  E
Residents : 93 (2011)
Postal code : 12-122
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Warchały / DK 58 ↔ Witowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Brajniki ( German  Braynicken ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Brajniki is located on the western shore of Lake Braynick ( Jezioro Brajnickie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 34 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Neidenburg ( Nidzica in Polish ) and eleven kilometers west of today's district metropolis Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

Village street in Brajniki
Property in Brajniki
Brajniki at Jezioro Brajnickie

history

Which at the time Braniken after 1574 Brayninka and after 1785 Brayniken called small village was founded in the 1383rd Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the Burdungen district (Polish : Burdąg ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg .

The number of Braynickens residents was 178 in 1910, 196 in 1933 and 173 in 1939.

In war-induced Braynicken 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland . The place received the Polish name form "Brajniki" and is today with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the rural community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Brajniki had 93 inhabitants.

church

Until 1945 Braynicken was parish in the Protestant church Neuhof (Neidenburg district) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Roman Catholic Church Jedwabno in the then diocese of Warmia . Today Brajniki belongs on the Protestant side to the church Jedwabno in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and also on the Catholic side to the St. Adalbert's Church in Nowy Dwór in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Entrance to Brajniki

Brajniki can be reached from the national road 58 in the Warchały (Warchallen) junction on a side road towards Witowo (Ittowen , Gittau from 1927 to 1945 ) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Brajniki w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 86 (Polish)
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Braynicken
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Neidenburg district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher, local register, Neidenburg district
  7. ↑ Urząd Gminy Jedwabno: Sołectwa
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495