Jurkowo (Kruklanki)

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Jurkowo (Poland)
Jurkovo
Jurkovo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Kruklanki
Geographic location : 54 ° 4 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '23 "  N , 22 ° 3' 26"  E
Residents : 170 (2006)
Postal code : 11-612
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Kruklanki - Możdżany ↔ Lipowo
Żywy - Kamienna Struga → Jurkowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Jurkowo (until 2009: Jurkowo Węgorzewskie, German  Jorkowen , 1938 to 1945 Jorken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Jurkowo on the southern edge of the Borkener Forest (also: Borker Heide, Polish Puszcza Borecka ) is northeast of Lake Siewener (Polish Jezioro Żywy) in the north-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . The former district town of Angerburg (Węgorzewo) is 27 kilometers away in a north-westerly direction, while today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) is 20 kilometers away in a south-westerly direction.

history

The small town called Jurkowen after 1785 , then Jorkowen until 1938 , was founded in 1713 as a Schatulldorf . Equipped with a steam sawmill , the importance of the village in the region grew later. In 1874 Jorkowen came to the District Regulowken ( Polish Regułówka) , who - in 1931 "District Borken Walde" called - existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

The villages of Bahnhof Jorkowen / Jorken (from 1908), Hagenhorst, Forst (Jurkówko in Polish), Lipowen (1928 to 1945 Lindenheim, Lipowo in Polish), Steinbach (from 1928, Kamienna Struga in Polish) and Walisko (1938 to 1945 Waldsee, Polish Wolisko). In 1910 a total of 240 inhabitants were registered in Jorkowen. Their number rose to 263 by 1925, was already 360 in 1933 and was 354 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938 Jorkowen was for political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names in "Jorken" renamed, was in consequence of the war with the entire southern 1945 East Prussia Poland granted where it was called until 31 December 2009 "Jurkowo Wegorzewskie" and since then is mentioned without addition.

Today Jurkowo is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ), which also includes the neighboring towns of Jurkówko (Hagenhorst) and Wolisko (Walisko , 1938 to 1945 Waldsee) . It forms a place in the network of the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Jorkowen was parish in the Evangelical Church Orlowen (1938-1945 Adlersdorf, Polish Orłowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish Giżycko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Jurkowo belongs to the Catholic parish in Orłowo in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish in Wydminy (Widminnen) , a subsidiary of the parish in Giżycko in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

In 1781 a school was founded in Jorkowen. The village received a new school building in 1901. Between 1927 and 1931 the school was run in two classes. The number of school children was 12 in 1855, 69 in 1928 and 65 in 1935.

traffic

A side road leads to the somewhat remote Jurkowo, which connects Kruklanki (Kruglanken) with Możdżany (Mosdzehnen , 1930 to 1945 Borkenwalde) and Lipowo (Lindenheim) . A side road ends in Jurkowo, which is a riverside road on the east bank from Siewener See ( Jezioro Żywy in Polish ) along from Żywy (Siewen) via Kamienna Struga (Steinbach) to here.

Between 1908 and 1945 Jorkowen or Jorken was a train station on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg railway line . It was not put back into operation after the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 409
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Jorken
  3. ↑ a b Jorken (Jorkowen)
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Regulowken / Borkenwalde district
  5. ↑ Jorken (Angerburg district)
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492
  9. ↑ After 1945 the station was called "Jurgowo Węgorzewskie"