Cwalinki

Cwalinki
	Cwalinki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 31 '  N , 22 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '28 "  N , 21 ° 59' 45"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Jakuby ↔ Filipki Małe
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Cwalinki [ t͡sfaˈlinkʲi ] ( German  Klein Zwalinnen , 1938–1945 Kleinschwallen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ) heard.

Geographical location

The Weiler ( Polish Osada ) located in the southeast of the Warmia and Mazury , close to the river Wincenta ( German  Johannis River ), once the here border between Germany and Poland and now the border between the Polish provinces Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie forms. The district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) is 17 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The former Klein Zwalinnen originally consisted of a middle courtyard and came with the name spellings Klein Czwalinnen (after 1785) and Klein Zwallinnen / Klein Zwalinnen (until 1938). Until 1945, the place probably made a dwelling place in the rural community Gruhsen ( Polish Gruzy ) in the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Small Zwalinnen was foreign-appearing place names from political and ideological reasons of defense Klein gushes renamed .

In 1945 the place came to Poland in the wake of the war with the whole of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of name Cwalinki . Today it is a village within the urban and rural municipality of Biała Piska in the Powiat Piski , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Klein Zwalinnen was integrated with the mother community Gruhsen in the Evangelical Church of Kumilsko in the Church Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the evangelical inhabitants of Cwalinki stick to the parish in Biała Piska , a branch parish of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Cwalinki belongs to the parish of Kumielsk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Cwalinki is located on a land road that crosses the border from Jakuby (Jakubben) to the Podlaskie Voivodeship to Filipki Małe . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 167
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kleinschwallen
3. ↑ so Dietrich Lange; no other evidence is available.
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.