Chmielewo (Kruklanki)

Chmielewo
	Chmielewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '44 "  N , 21 ° 58' 38"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kruklanki ↔ Możdżany
	Brożówka ↔ Boćwinka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Chmielewo ( German  hop garden ) is a settlement ( Polish osada ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Chmielewo is located southeast of the Büffkesee ( Polish Brożówka ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Today's district metropolis is 14 kilometers to the southwest, while the former district town of Angerburg (Węgorzewo in Polish) is 22 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The place was founded in 1772 with the name Milchbude and as a Vorwerk to the Gansenstein manor district ( Brożówka in Polish ) located just two kilometers to the northwest . Before 1782 it was called Chmielewo , then Hoppenthal and Hopfenthal and then until 1945 Hopfental . As a former dwelling place of Gutsbezirks goose stone Hopfental belonged to the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia and counted in 1905 only 35 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, Gansenstein and with him Hopfental were incorporated into the rural community of Kruglanken (Kruklanki in Polish). Together, both places came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with the whole of southern East Prussia , with Hopfental being given the Polish place name Chmielewo as an independent place again . Today the settlement belongs to the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) Brożówka and is a place in the network of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) , "changed" from the Angerburg district to the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship Masuria belonging.

Religions

Before 1945 Hopfental was parish in the Evangelical Church of Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen ( Giżycko in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Chmielewo is part of the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant parish of Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Chmielewo is a little away from the traffic on a country road-like side road that connects Kruklanki (Kruglanken) with Możdżany (Mosdzehnen , 1938–1945 Borkenwalde) . In Chmielewo it crosses a country road that leads from Brożówka (Gansenstein) to Boćwinka (Neu Freudenthal) .

There is no longer a train connection. From 1908 to 1945 Gansenstein was the next train station on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg line , which was abandoned due to the war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Hopfental
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hopfental (Angerburg district)
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476