Klimki (Węgorzewo)

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Klimki
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Klimki (Poland)
Klimki
Klimki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Węgorzewo
Geographic location : 54 ° 16 '  N , 21 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '16 "  N , 21 ° 41' 57"  E
Height : 130 m npm
Residents : 188 (2011)
Postal code : 11-600
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 63 : ( Russia– ) Perły ↔ Węgorzewo - Giżycko - Pisz - Sławatycze / Belarus
Brzozowo → Klimki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Olsztyn-Mazury
Gdansk
Kaliningrad



Klimki ( German  Klimken ) is a village and Schulzenamt in the Gmina Węgorzewo ( German  Angerburg ) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ). It is located in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .

Geographical location

The national road DK 63 in Klimki

The village of Klimki is located in the Masurian Lake District on the Baltic ridge north of Lake Mamry ( Mauersee ). The river Angrapa ( Polish Węgorapa , German  Angerapp ) flows east of Klimki and flows into the Pregel . Numerous lakes, swamps, ponds as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the landscape.

The Polish state road DK 63 (section of the former German Reichsstraße 131 ) runs through Klimki, which runs from the Polish-Belarusian state border via Pisz (Johannisburg) - Giżycko (Lötzen) - Węgorzewo to the Polish-Russian state border, where a border crossing is planned .

Until 1945, Klimken was a train station on the Gumbinnen – Angerburg railway line , which has not been in operation since.

The distance to Węgorzewo is seven and to Brzozowo (Brosowen , 1938 to 1945 Hartenstein) eight kilometers. The state border between the Republic of Poland and the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad runs about eight kilometers north of Klimki . The Bezledy - Bagrationovsk border crossing is 97 kilometers away.

history

Originally this Prussian landscape was inhabited by the pagan Prussians ( Nadrau ). After Christianization, the area belonged to the Teutonic Order State from 1243 . After the Battle of Tannenberg (1410) and the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the region became part of the Duchy of Prussia . On January 10, 1560, the treasurer Wilhelm Thüsel von Daltitz received 40 Hufen Wald in Amte Angerburg, which first bore the place name Thüfelswohl, later Klimken . After 1772 this region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of Prussia . The village of Klimken belonged to the district of Angerburg in the administrative district of Gumbinnen from 1818 to 1945 .

At the beginning of May 1874, the district of Brosowen was formed with the rural communities of Alt Perlswalde, Brosowen, Neu Perlswalde and the manor district of Klimken. In October 1928, the Klimken manor was incorporated into the rural community Gurren ( Polish Góry ) in the district of Olschöwen (Olszewo Węgorzewskie).

On January 25, 1945, Klimken was captured by the Red Army and placed under the Soviet command. After the end of the war the village became part of Poland and has been called Klimki ever since . From 1975-1998 Klimki was in the Suwałki Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population development

  • 1867: 073
  • 1885: 080
  • 1905: 053
  • 1910: 053
  • 2011: 188

religion

The majority of the population was Klimkens before 1945 Protestant denomination and in the Church Olschöwen (1938-1945 Kanitz, Polish Olszewo Wegorzewskie) in the church district Angerburg in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish. The Catholics were members of the parish of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the diocese of Warmia .

Today the majority of the inhabitants of Klimki are of the Catholic denomination and belong to the parish in Węgielsztyn (Engelstein) with the chapel in Perły (Perlswalde) in the deanery Węgorzewo in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members belong to the parish in Węgorzewo, a branch parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Web links

Commons : Klimken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieś Klimki. polskawliczbach.pl, 2011, accessed January 31, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Perlswalde. October 24, 2004, accessed March 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477