Frączkowo

Frączkowo
	Frączkowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Barciany
Geographic location :	54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '34 "  N , 21 ° 17' 31"  E
Residents :	236 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-410
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kotki / ext. 591 ↔ Skandawa or Modgarby
	Aptynty - Wielewo → Frączkowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Frączkowo ( German  Fritzendorf ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Barciany (rural community Barten ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Frączkowo is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers south of the former district town of Gerdauen (today Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 22 kilometers northwest of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

The place called Vritzendorf before 1785 was founded in 1364. It was a very large Vorwerk zu Willkamm ( Polish Wielewo ) in the East Prussian district of Gerdauen . In 1905 the Willkammer Wohnplatz had 129 residents.

When in 1945 all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland as a result of the war , Fritzendorf was also affected. The place received the Polish form of the name "Frączkowo". Today's settlement ( Osada in Polish ) is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) and as such a place in the community of Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Fritzendorf was parish in the Protestant Church of Molthainen (1938 to 1945 Molteinen , in Polish Mołtajny ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Insterburg ( Chernyachovsk in Russian ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Frączkowo is a Catholic branch of the Momajny parish in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia . The Protestant church members belong to the parish Barciany , a branch parish of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Frączkowo is located on a side road that connects the north-south Voivodeship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ) near Kotki (Krausen) with Skandawa (Skandau) or Modgarby (Modgarben) .

In the north of the village, the Skandawa – Kotki railway , which was built in the 1950s and connects the Poznan – Toruń – Skandawa railway with the Kotki reloading station used for military purposes, and the Anielin Gradowo – Wielewo (–Schelesnodoroschny) railway, runs only sporadically today is driven on.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 248
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Fritzendorf
4. ↑ ^{a b} Fritzendorf at GenWiki