Chojnica (Srokowo)

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Chojnica
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Chojnica (Poland)
Chojnica
Chojnica
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Srokovo
Geographic location : 54 ° 10 ′  N , 21 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 6 ″  N , 21 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 29 m npm
Residents :
Postal code : 11-420
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Solanka / ext. 650Szczeciniak
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Chojnica ( German  Knipprode , until 1912: Salzbach A and Salzbach C ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Chojnica is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers northeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

Residential houses in Chojnica

history

Local history

On September 15, 1873, the Gutsort was Salzbach C in conjunction with the Vorwerk Salzbach A founded. 1874 both places in the newly constructed were District Salzbach ( Polish Solanka ) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The Salzbach C manor district together with the Salzbach A Vorwerk had a total of 134 inhabitants in 1885, 76 in 1905 and 116 inhabitants in 1910.

On November 21, 1912, Salzbach C and Salzbach A were jointly renamed " Knipprode ". The Knipprode estate lost its independence on September 30, 1928 and was incorporated into the rural community of Salzbach ( Solanka ) together with the neighboring estate districts Adlig Mühlbach ( Młynowo in Polish ) and Salzbach B.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Knipprode was also affected. It received the Polish form of the name "Chojnica" and is now a place in the network of the rural community Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Gut Salzbach C / Knipprode

Former Salzbach-Knipprode manor house in Chojnica

In the 1920s, the Knipprode estate comprised around 300 hectares. After 1945 it took over the state agriculture.

The manor house was built in the second half of the 19th century. It is one story and stands on a rectangular foundation. The building, which is covered with a gable roof , has a two-storey risalit in the front part .

church

Until 1945 Knipprode was parish in the Protestant parish church of Drengfurth in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Catholic St. Katharinen Church in Rastenburg with the branch chapel Drengfurth in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Chojnica belongs to the Catholic Holy Cross Church Srokowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , as well as to the Evangelical Church Srokowo , a branch church of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Chojnica is located west of the province road 650 and can be reached from Solanka (Salzbach) on the side road to Szczeciniak (Stettenbruch) .

There is no longer a rail connection. Until 1945, Knipprode was a station on the Rastenburg – Drengfurth line , which was operated by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen , but was not reactivated.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory, 2013, p. 144
  2. a b c d Knipprode at GenWiki
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Salzbach District
  4. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Knipprode
  5. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473