Gmina Wieliczki

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Gmina Wieliczki
Coat of arms of Gmina Wieliczki
Gmina Wieliczki (Poland)
Gmina Wieliczki
Gmina Wieliczki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecki
Geographic location : 53 ° 59 '  N , 22 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '8 "  N , 22 ° 33' 42"  E
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 19-404
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : DW655 Giżycko - Suwałki
DW661 Kalinowo- Cimochy
Rail route : Olecko – Suwałki railway line
Next international airport : Danzig
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 21 school authorities
Surface: 141.0 km²
Residents: 3326
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 24 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2813062
Administration (as of 2010)
Wójt : Jarosław Kuczyński
Address: ul. Lipowa 53
19-404 Wieliczki
Website : www.wieliczki.pl



The Gmina Wieliczki is a rural community in the Powiat Olecki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . Your seat is the village of the same name ( German Wielitzken , 1938-1945 Wallenrode ) with about 650 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the municipality
Municipal office of Gmina Wieliczki

The municipality is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , where it borders on the Podlaskie Voivodeship . The district town of Olecko ( Marggrabowa , also Oletzko or Treuburg ) is five kilometers away. Neighboring municipalities are in Podlachien Bakałarzewo in the northeast and Raczki in the southeast; in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the powiat Ełcki Kalinowo in the south and in the powiat Olecki Olecko in the west and north-west.

The community has an area of ​​141 km², 70 percent of which is used for agriculture and 21 percent for forestry. The river Lega (Weeske) runs through the municipality in the west. This borders in the northwest on the Jezioro Olecko Małe (Klein Oletzkoer See) , which does not belong to their area.

history

Administrative history

The rural community was formed again in 1973 from various gromadas . Your area belonged to the Białystok Voivodeship from 1946 to 1975 and then to the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 , the powiat was dissolved during this time. On January 1, 1999, the community came to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and again to the Powiat Olecki.

partnership

The municipality has entered into a partnership with Mäetaguse in Estonia.

Church history

In the area of ​​today's Gmina Wieliczki there has been no Protestant church since 1945. Members of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland visit the churches in Ełk or Suwałki .

Almost without exception, members of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland since 1945 visit the parish churches in Wieliczki, in Cimochy (Groß Czymochen) and the subsidiary churches in Kleszczewo (Kleschöwen) and Krupin (Krupinnen) . These belong to the deanery św. Jana Apostoła in the Diocese of Ełk .

structure

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Wieliczki includes 21 villages (German names, official until 1945) with a Schulzenamt (sołectwo) :

Smaller localities of the municipality are: Bartki ( Bartken ), Bartkowski Dwór ( Bartkenhof ), Gąsiorowo ( Groß Gonschorowen , 1938–1945 Klinken ), Krzyżewko ( Krzysöwken , 1927–1945 Kreuzdorf ), Niedźwiedzkie (osada) , Norki ( Nordenberg ), Nowy Młyn ( Neumühl ) and Starosty ( Starosten , 1938–1945 Mullersbrück ).

traffic

Sign on the voivodeship border in Cimochy

The voivodeship road DW 655 runs in a west-east direction from Giżycko (Lötzen) to Suwałki . In Cimochy (Groß Czymochen) the voivodship road DW661 branches off to Kalinowo (Kallinowen) .

The Olecko – Suwałki railway with the Wieliczki Oleckie , Wilkasy (Willkassen) and Cimochy (Groß Czymochen) stations is currently not served. - The nearest train station is in Suwałki.

The nearest airports are Gdansk and Warsaw .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Wieliczki  - 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. a b c ug.wieliczki.pl: Władze, (Polish, accessed August 7, 2020)
  3. a b regioset.pl: data on the municipality (Polish, accessed on August 7, 2020)
  4. The Historical Place Directory