Gmina Kruklanki

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Gmina Kruklanki
Coat of arms of the Gmina Kruklanki
Gmina Kruklanki (Poland)
Gmina Kruklanki
Gmina Kruklanki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycki
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '18 "  N , 21 ° 55' 21"  E
Height : 116-161 m npm
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 11-612
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Sołdany ( DK63 ) –Kruklanki
Rail route : -
Next international airport : Danzig
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 12 school offices
Surface: 201.01 km²
Residents: 3164
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 16 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2806052
Administration (as of 2014)
Wójt : Bartłomiej Artur Kłoczko
Address: 11-612 Kruklanki
ul. 22 Lipca 10
Website : www.kruklanki.pl



The Gmina Kruklanki is a rural community in the powiat Giżycki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . Your seat is the village of the same name ( German Kruglanken ) with about 1100 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the municipality

The municipality is located in the east of the voivodeship in the former East Prussia . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is about nine kilometers to the southwest. Neighboring communities are węgorzewo county Pozezdrze (Poss eaters) to the northwest, in gołdap county Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the north, Powiat Olecki kowale oleckie (Kowahlen) in the northeast and Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the southeast and in giżycko county Wydminy (Widminnen) in the south and the rural community Giżycko (Lötzen) in the southwest.

The area of ​​the municipality belongs to the Masurian Lake District . There are a number of large and small lakes. The Gołdapiwo (Goldapger Lake) in the west of the area is the largest of them with around 862 hectares . Other lakes are: Kruklin ( Kraukelner See , 360 ha), Sołtmany ( Soltmahner See , 180 ha), Żywy ( Siewener See , 119 ha) and Brożówka ( Büffke See , 60 ha). The Sapina is 47.5 kilometers long and flows through about a dozen lakes.

The community has an area of ​​201 km², 33 percent of which is used for agriculture and 53 percent for forestry.

history

The rural community was re-established in 1973 after its territory was divided into Gromadas from 1954 to 1972 . From 1945 to 1954 the parish belonged to the powiat Węgorzewski old layout with headquarters. It came 1973 Powiat Giżycki. The municipality belonged to the Olsztyn Voivodeship from 1946 to 1975 and then to the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 , when the powiat was dissolved. On January 1, 1999, the community came back to the powiat Giżycki and the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, which was newly formed and corresponds to the Polish part of the former province of East Prussia .

structure

The rural community Kruklanki consists of 12 villages (German names officially until 1945) with Schulzenamt (sołectwo):

Hamlets in the municipality are:

traffic

The important north-south connection Landesstraße DK63 (former Reichsstraße 131 ) leads west past the municipality.

The nearest international airport is Gdansk . The use of Kaliningrad Airport depends on border regulations.

There is no longer a train connection. From 1945 to 1987 Kruklanki was the terminus of the Giżycko – Kruklanki .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Kruklanki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The Historical Place Directory
  3. ↑ kruklanki.pl: Sołectwa. (Polish, accessed July 18, 2020)