Kałki (Srokowo)

Kałki
	Kałki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Srokovo
Geographic location :	54 ° 18 ′  N , 21 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 18 "  N , 21 ° 28 ′ 12"  E
Height :	68 m npm
Residents :
Postal code :	11-420
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Łęknica ↔ Brzeźnica
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kałki ( German  Sechserben ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Srokowo (rural community Drengfurth ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Kałki is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , two kilometers south of the Polish-Russian border with the Kaliningrad Oblast (Königsberg region) . It is 13 kilometers to the northwest to the former district town of Gerdauen (today Russian Schelesnodoroschny ), while today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ) is 25 kilometers to the south.

Village street in Kałki

Property in Kałki

Former forge in Kałki

history

Place name

The term "six heirs " goes back to the six heirs who had inherited his Birkenfeld estates after the death of Count Adolf von Schlieben (1792–1815) and had to share the property first.

Local history

Sechserben was founded on March 10, 1823 as part of the landlord peasant regulation after the peasant liberation. In the official gazette of the royal Prussian government in Königsberg it said at the time: “ That the establishment belonging to the Count Schlieben's heirs on Birkenfeld was dismantled on the farmland that was dismantled during the regulation of the manorial and rural conditions of the village of Langenfeld. Gerdauenschen districts, bordering the Adolphshoff Vorwerk to the east, the Löcknische Wald to the south, the Langenfeld Forest to the west, and the village of Langenfeld to the north, with the permission of the Königl. Government of East Prussia given the name Six Serbs, is hereby brought to the public knowledge ”. On April 14, 1897 from the estate of six heirs to the outworks Adolfshof ( Polish Goszczewo and Langenfeld) (no longer exists) and the town of Langenfeld Gutsbezirk formed six heirs and in the administrative district Birkenfeld ( Polish Brzeźnica ) incorporated. He belonged to the district of Gerdauen in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1885, Sechserben had 105 inhabitants, in 1905 already 317 and in 1910 291. On September 30, 1928, the Sechserben estate gave up its independence and merged with the Birkenfeld estate to form the new rural community of Birkenfeld.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Secherben was also affected. The place received the Polish name form "Kałki" and is today a settlement ( Polish Osada ) within the rural community Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Good six heirs

The Sechserben estate belonged to the Counts of Schlieben until 1824 , then to the Totenhoefer family in Birkenfeld ( Brzeźnica in Polish ). The then independent estate district of Sechserben was transferred in 1897 to Alfred Totenhoefer (1860-1902).

The last German owner was the son of a mine director in Andalusia, Rudolf Plock (1883–1980), who married into the Totenhoefer family. The estate last comprised 1,125 hectares, 350 hectares of which were mixed forest. The main concern of the last landowner was the breeding of Trakehner stallions .

On 23 January 1945, the Gutstreck went under Rudolf Plock to escape , but was already in the circle Prussian Holland of Soviet troops overrun. The landowner couple managed to escape on foot and reached Korbach in Hesse via Denmark .

The Sechserben estate complex served as a state-owned cooperative estate after 1945 . In 1996 a businessman from Warsaw is said to have bought it . The aim was to set up a pension here.

Kałki Castle

The former Sechserben manor house and today's Kałki Castle

Presumably under the owner Alfred Totenhoefer (1860-1902) the large thirteen- axle manor house was built in the neo-renaissance style in what was then the sixserben . At the same time, on the southern edge of the large estate park, a brick building with rich woodwork in the style of a Baltic Sea villa was built, which was intended as a retirement home - but the building burned down in 1980.

The manor complex was destroyed at the end of the First World War , but the manor house - and now the Kałki Castle - was rebuilt in neo-baroque style by 1920, incorporating the outer walls that were still preserved . After 1945 it was inhabited by numerous working class families and also served as a meeting place. Some paneling has been preserved inside. The manor park is overgrown, but most of its trees have been preserved. The farm buildings are also still intact and, together with the manor house, almost unchanged in structure.

War cemetery

About three kilometers west of the village is a war grave cemetery in the Kalken Mountains . In 1996 it was renovated. A memorial plaque on the gate indicates 80 German and 39 Russian soldiers.

Also located on the road to Łęknica (Löcknick) a soldier common grave.

"Kałeckie Błota"

A few hundred meters west of Kałki there is a nature reserve Kałeckie Błota ("Reserwat Przyrody Kałeckie Błota") created in 1988 .

church

Evangelical

Until 1945, Sechserben was incorporated into the Protestant parish of Nordenburg (today in Russian Krylowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Kałki is oriented towards Brzeźnica (Bierkenfeld) , a branch parish of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945, Sechserben belonged to the Catholic Church Insterburg (now in Russian: Chernyachovsk ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Kałki is parish after Srokowo in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Street

Kałki is located on a side road that leads from Łęknica (Löcknick) to Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) and before 1945 continued to Nordenburg ( Russian: Krylowo ) on Reichsstraße 131 (today's 27A-083 ).

rail

There is no longer a train connection for Kałki. Until 1945, Sechserben was a station on the Barten – Nordenburg railway line of the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen , which, however, has not been reactivated.

Web links

Commons : Kałki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical photos of six heirs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 413
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Kałki - Sechserben at ostpreussen.net
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sechserben
4. ↑ 1823, No. 15, Ordinance No. 87
5. ↑ quoted from: Sechserben (Landkreis Gerdauen) at GenWiki
6. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, Birkenfeld district
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Sechserben (Gerdauen district) at GenWiki