Grobka

Grobka
	Grobka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Jedwabno
Geographic location :	53 ° 31 '  N , 20 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '23 "  N , 20 ° 37' 8"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Dłużek / DK 58 → Grobka
	Natać Wielka → Grobka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Grobka ( German  Grobka , 1938 to 1945 Mittenwald ) is a small town in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Szczycieński powiat ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Grobka is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 24 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Neidenburg ( Nidzica in Polish ) and 26 kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

history

Grobka - before 1820 Grobken - was a forestry before 1945 and belonged to the Hartigswalde state forest . With only five inhabitants in 1905, it was incorporated into the municipality of Dluszek (1932 to 1945 Hartigswalde , in Polish : Dłużek ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg . From around 1938 the forestry department was called "Mittenwald".

With the entire southern East Prussia came Grobka resp. Mittenwald 1945 as a consequence of the war with Poland and was given the ancestral name "Grobka" back. Today's forest settlement ( Osada leśna in Polish ) is now a village within the rural community of Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Grobka / Mittenwald was parish in the Evangelical Church of Jedwabno in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Jedwabno in the then diocese of Warmia . The reference to Jedwabno still exists today for both denominations, with the Catholic part now belonging to the Archdiocese of Warmia and the Protestant part of the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Grobka is located south of the state road 58 and can be reached via a side road from Dłużek (Dluszek , Hartigswalde from 1932 to 1945 ) . There is also a connection from Natać Wielka (Groß Nattatsch , 1938 to 1945 Großseedorf) to Grobka. There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grobka
2. ↑ ^{a b} Grobka / Mittenwald at GenWiki
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 494