Jeleni Róg (Kruklanki)

Jeleni Róg
	Jeleni Róg
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 7 '  N , 22 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '13 "  N , 22 ° 1' 29"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Podleśne → Jeleni Róg
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Jeleni Róg ( German  Frankenort ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is a residential area of the village Podleśne (Knobbenort) in the network of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Jeleni Róg is located south of the Great Lenkuk Lake ( Jezioro Łękuk in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is 22 kilometers to the northwest to the former district town of Angerburg (Węgorzewo). Today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) is located 20 kilometers to the south-west.

history

The small Gutsdorf Frankenort was founded in 1709. In 1874 the Gutsbezirk Frankenort in the newly built office district was cowls ( Polish Kuty ) incorporated, which the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Frankenort had 46 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928 Frankenort gave up its independence and was incorporated into the rural community Knobbenort (Podleśne) with the neighboring town of Groß Lenkuk (Polish Łękuk Wielki).

As a result of the war, the small village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Jeleni Róg". Today it is a non-independent residential area in the village of Podleśne, which is part of the Kruklanki (Kruglanken) rural community , now in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), and has been part of the Suwałki Voivodeship before 1998 , and since then has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

Ecclesiastically, Frankenort was assigned to both the Protestant Kutten Church in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union and the Catholic parish church Zum Guten Hirten Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the village belongs to the Catholic parish church Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and also to the Protestant parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) with the subsidiary community of Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

In terms of traffic, Jeleni Róg can only be reached by land from Podleśne (Knobbenort) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Frankenort
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kutten district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
4. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476