Knieja Łuczańska

Knieja Łuczańska
	Knieja Łuczańska
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 6 '  N , 22 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '6 "  N , 22 ° 0' 57"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Możdżany ↔ Podleśne
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Knieja Łuczańska ( German  Waldgut Lötzen ) is a settlement in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural municipality of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Knieja Łuczańska is located in the southwestern Puszcza Borecka (also: Borker Heide, German  Borkener Forst ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Giżycko ( German  Lötzen ) is 17 kilometers to the southwest, while the former district metropolis of Węgorzewo ( German  Angerburg ) is 23 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The large forestry, known as Lötzensche Waldbude until 1885 , Waldhaus Lötzen before 1912 and Waldgut Lötzen until 1945 , was incorporated into the Borken, Forst ( Polish: Borki ) district before 1905 . This was part of the local district of the same in the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1905 the Lötzen forest estate had 55 inhabitants. On September 30, 1929 it was reclassified from the manor district Borken, Forst in the rural community Knobbenort (Polish Podleśne) in the district Seehausen (until 1927 "Amtgs district Jesziorowsken", Polish Jeziorowskie).

As a result of the war, Waldgut Lötzen was transferred to Poland along with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and is now called "Knieja Łuczańska". Today it is included as a small settlement (Polish osada) in the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, the Lötzen forest estate was part of the Evangelical Church of Kruglanken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Knieja Łuczańska belongs to the Catholic parish Kruklanki in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the parish Giżycko (with the subsidiary churches in Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) and in Wydminy (Widminnen) ) in the diocese Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Due to its location in the Borken Forest, the Knieja Łuczańska settlement can only be reached by land from Możdżany (Mosdzehnen , 1930 to 1945 Borkenwalde) or from Podleśne (Knobbenort) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Waldgut Lötzen
2. ↑ ^{a b} Waldgut Lötzen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Borken district
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Jesziorowsken / Seehausen district
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476