Grzechotki
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Braniewo | ||
| Gmina : | Braniewo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 25 ′ N , 20 ° 2 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 73 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 55 | ||
| License plate : | NBR | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | S 22 : Elbląg ↔ R 516 : Kaliningrad | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
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Grzechotki ( German Rehfeld ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is located - in the immediate vicinity of the border with Russia - in the Braniewski powiat ( Braunsberg ). The small town is part of the Braniewo rural community .
Geographical location
Grzechotki is one kilometer northwest of the S 22 expressway , which - before it runs as state road DK 22 across northwestern Poland to Kostrzyn (Küstrin) on the German border - connects the city of Elbląg (Elbing) with the Russian border. In this section it represents one of the few completed sections of the formerly planned Reichsautobahn Berlin – Königsberg .
Grzechotki in the valley of the river Omaza (Russian: Игнатька / Ignatewka) is the last place in Poland before the road crosses the border to Russia ( EU external border) and as the trunk road P 516 in the Kaliningrad Oblast to the former Prussian Metropolis is continued. The border crossing point "Grzechotki- Mamonowo (Heiligenbeil) II" was opened on November 24, 2010.
history
Grzechotki, the village with 73 inhabitants in the almost deserted border area today, was home to 337 people in 1910 - at that time still called "Rehfeld". The population decreased to 278 by 1933 and was 295 in 1939.
Until 1945 Rehfeld was in the district of Heiligenbeil (today in Russian: Мамоново / Mamonowo) in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The village was a school location and belonged to the communities of Birkenau (today in Polish: Wilki), Grünwalde (today in Russian: Липовка / Lipowka), Kleinwalde (Borek, no longer exists today), Thomsdorf (no longer exists today) and Waltersdorf (Pęciszewo) Waltersdorf district.
Today Grzechotki is a district of Gmina Braniewo in the powiat Braniewski in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (until 1998 Elblag Voivodeship ).
Religions
Neither as Rehfeld nor as Grzechotki, the place had its own church. Kirchdorf was and is rather the neighboring town of Waltersdorf (Pęciszewo). Until 1945, in addition to the village of Birkenau (Wilki), the now no longer existing places Heidenhof (Wrzosek), Kleinwalde (Borek), Neu Bahnau (Nowe Banonwo), Preuschhof (Prusowo) and Rosenhof (Różanka) were parochialized. Until 1945 the parish of Waltersdorf belonged to the church district Heiligenbeil of the church province of East Prussia of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union .
traffic
Today Grzechotki lies in a border region that is almost empty of villages and people. With the expansion of the S 22 and the opening of the border with Russia in 2010, the traffic situation has improved. Until 1945, Rehfeld was a railway station on the Reichsbahn line Heiligenbeil - Zinten (- Preussisch Eylau ), the course of which - with the exception of Grzechotki - would today lie solely on Russian territory. The line was not reactivated after the war.
literature
- Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Part 1: The parishes and their positions . Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, Hamburg 1968 ( special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV 11, ISSN 0505-2734 ).