Franciszkowo (Wydminy)

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Franciszkowo
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Franciszkowo (Poland)
Franciszkowo
Franciszkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '39 "  N , 22 ° 2' 45"  E
Residents : 17 (2012)
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Hejbuty / ext. 656 ↔ Biała Giżycka
Pańska Wola → Franciszkowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Franciszkowo [ frant͡ɕiʂˈkɔvɔ ] ( German  Franziskowen , 1938–1945 Freihausen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

The hamlet ( Polish osada ) Franciszkowo is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 23 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The small place Franziskowen was originally a Vorwerk in the Neuhoff manor district ( Zelki in Polish ). In 1818 it was a noble estate with 19 souls. With the mother church, the village was in the newly built 1,874 District incorporated Neuhoff, who until 1945 Circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Franziskowen was also assigned to the Neuhoff registry office from 1874 . In 1905 it had 56 inhabitants.

On October 17, 1928, the Vorwerk Franziskowen was reclassified from the Neuhoff manor into the rural community Adlig Wolla ( Polish Pańska Wola ). In 1938 it was renamed Freihausen .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of name Franciszkowo . Today he is in the mayor's office ( Polish sołectwo ) Pańska Wola (Noble wolla) involved and thus a village in the network of rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in giżycko county (district Giżycko ) until 1998, the province Suwalki since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

Religions

Via the mother community Neuhoff (Zelki) and from 1928 Adlig Wolla (Pańska Wola), Franziskowen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Neuhoff in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Franciszkowo belongs to the protestant church Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and the parish church Zelki in the diocese Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Franciszkowo can be reached from the voivodship road DW 656 via Hejbuty ( German  Heybutten ) on a land route in the direction of Biała Giżycka (Adlig Bialla , 1938–1945 Bleichenau) . Another overland route leads from Pańska Wola (Adlig Wolla , 1938–1945 Freihausen) to the village. There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 902
  2. ↑ a b c d e Franziskowen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Neuhoff
  4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.