Gmina Miłki

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Gmina Miłki
Coat of arms of Gmina Miłki
Gmina Miłki (Poland)
Gmina Miłki
Gmina Miłki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycki
Geographic location : 53 ° 57 '  N , 21 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '35 "  N , 21 ° 52' 57"  E
Height : 116 m npm
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 11-513
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK63 : Giżycko - Pisz
DW656 : Staświny - Ełk
Rail route : -
Next international airport : Danzig
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 18 school offices
Surface: 169.43 km²
Residents: 3742
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 22 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2806062
Administration (as of 2014)
Wójt : Barbara Mazurczyk
Address: ul.Mazurska 2
11-513 Miłki
Website : gminamilki.pl



The Gmina Miłki [ ˈmʲiwkʲi ] is a rural municipality in the powiat Giżycki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . Your seat is the village of the same name ( German  Milken ) with about 650 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 six kilometers to the northwest. Neighboring communities are in the powiat Giżycki Ryn (Rhine) in the west, the rural community Giżycko (Lötzen) in the north and Wydminy (Widminnen) in the east, in the powiat Piski Orzysz (Arys) in the south and in the powiat Mrągowski Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the southwest.

The area of ​​the municipality belongs to the Masurian Lake District . There are a number of large and small lakes. Jezioro Jagodne in the west of the area is the largest of them with around 900 hectares . The community has an area of ​​169.4 km², 65 percent of which is used for agriculture and 14 percent for forestry.

history

The community was re-established in 1973 after its territory was divided into Gromadas from 1954 to 1972 . From 1945 to 1954 the Gmina Paprotki was based in the town of the same name . The municipality belonged to the Olsztyn Voivodeship from 1946 to 1975 and then to the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 . 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 .

religion

The listed parish church of Rydzewo

In the municipality there are two Roman Catholic parish churches with three subsidiary churches : Miłki with Ruda (Ruhden) and Marcinowa Wola (Marczinawolla) and Rydzewo (Rydzewen) with Paprotki (Paprodtken) . Members of the Evangelical Augsburg Church must visit the churches in Giżycko (Lötzen) , Orzysz (Arys) or Wydminy (Widminnen) , which belong to the diocese of Mazury .

structure

The rural community Miłki consists of 18 villages (German names officially until 1945) with Schulzenamt (sołectwo):

Smaller towns and hamlets are:

Kąp is a part of Ruda. Przykop ( Przykopp , 1938–1945 Hessenhöh ) belongs to Miłki.

Cultural monuments and buildings

The Miłki transmission tower in the background of the Niegocin (Lioness Lake)

Among the cultural monuments include the parish church of Rydzewo (Rydzewen) and various war cemeteries of the First World War .

Northwest of Miłki in the direction of Przykop there is a transmitter for VHF and television with a 327 meter high transmitter mast ( location )

traffic

The national road DK63 (formerly Reichsstraße 131 ) leads from Węgorzewo (Angerburg) via the district town Giżycko (Lötzen) and Miłki to Orzysz (Arys) and Pisz (Johannisburg) . In Staświny the voivodeship road DW656 branches off, which runs southeast to Ełk (Lyck) .

The nearest international airport is Gdansk .

Gmina Miłki has not had a rail link since 1945. Railway stations on the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line existed in the area of ​​today's municipality in Ruhden / Eisenwerk , Milken and Groß Konopken / Hanffen .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Miłki  - collection of images, 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. gminamilki.pl: WYBORY SOŁTYSÓW I RAD SOŁECKICH W GMINIE MIŁKI W 2019 r. (Polish, as of 2019; accessed on July 18, 2020)