Kalniszki

Kalniszki
	Kalniszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 12 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '4 "  N , 22 ° 8' 54"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Boćwinka / ext. 650 ↔ Nowiny - Kierze
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kalniszki ( German  Kallnischken , 1938 to 1945 Kunzmannsrode ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district.

Geographical location

Kalniszki is located in the northeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship on the northern edge of the Borkener Forest (also: Borker Heide, Polish: Puszcza Borecka). It is 16 kilometers to the northeast to the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) .

history

The small village called Kallnieken at the time was founded in 1694 on a formerly inhabited place. In the years that followed, it bore various forms of name: Kallningken (around 1698), Kallnicken (after 1699) and Kallnischken (until 1938).

From 1874 to 1945 Kallnischken belonged to the administrative district Bodschwingken (Polish: Boćwinka), which was renamed in 1939 to the “administrative district Herandstal” and was part of the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 185 inhabitants were registered in Kallnischken. After the incorporation of the neighboring village of Naujehnen (1938 to 19045: Neuengrund, Polish: Nowiny) (which today belongs to the municipality of Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) ) before 1931, their number was 343 and in 1939 it was 298.

On June 3, 1938, Kallnischken received the name "Kunzmannsrode" as part of the National Socialist renaming campaign . After the village was assigned to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , it was renamed "Kalniszki" again. Today the place is a small village in the network of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

Religions

The residents of Kallnischken, the majority of whom were Protestant denominations until 1945 , were parish in the parish of the Church of Grabowen (1938 to 1945: Arnswald, Polish: Grabowo) and thus part of the Goldap parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholics belonged to the parish of Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945 the population of Kalniszki has been almost without exception Catholic and belongs to the newly established parish in Grabowo , whose church was once a Protestant church. Grabowo is part of the Gołdap deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Gołdap , a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kalniszki can be reached via a side road that branches off in Alt Bodschwingken (1938 to 1945: Alt Herandstal, Polish: Boćwinka) from the voivodship road DW 650 (former German Reichsstraße 136 ) and into the municipality of Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) to Nowiny (Naujehnen) , 1938 to 1945 Neuengrund) and Kierzki (Kerschken) .

Bodschwingken was the next train station until 1945 and was on the Angerburg – Goldap railway line , which is no longer in operation due to the war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kunzmannsrode
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Bodschwingken / Herandstal district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479