Janówko (Węgorzewo)

Janówko
	Janówko
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '19 "  N , 21 ° 42' 43"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Węgorzewo → Janòwko
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Janówko ( German  Johanneshof ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Janówko is located two kilometers northwest of the city center of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

history

The place formerly called Johanneshof has been mentioned since 1905. Almost exclusively consisting of a large courtyard, the place was until 1945 a residential area of ​​the municipality or city of Angerburg in the district of Angerburg in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1945 Johanneshof came in consequence of the war with the entire East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Janówko". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a village in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Johanneshof was ecclesiastically oriented to Angerburg until 1945, on the Protestant side to the parish church of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , on the Catholic side to the Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the diocese of Ermland .

Today Janówko is part of the Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant parish of Węgorzewo, a subsidiary of the Giżycko (Lötzen) parish of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Janówko is located north of the Polish voivodship road DW 650 (former German Reichsstraße 136 ) and the Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo (Rastenburg – Angerburg) railway line , which is now only in operation to a limited extent.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 369
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Johanneshof
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476