Koźlak

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Koźlak
Koźlak does not have a coat of arms
Koźlak (Poland)
Koźlak
Koźlak
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Budry
Geographic location : 54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '7 "  N , 21 ° 57' 36"  E
Height : 119 m npm
Residents :
Postal code : 11-600
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Różanka-Dwór / ext. 650 ↔ Piłaki Małe
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Koźlak ( German  Wilhelmshöh ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , part of the rural community Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Koźlak is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 15 kilometers northeast of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The little until September 30, 1862 dismantling Salecker , after 1898 Wilhelmshöhe and until 1945 Wilhelmshöh called Gutsort was before 1945 a dwelling place in the municipality Klein Pillacken (1923 to 1945 Lindewiese, Polish piłaki małe ) in the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has been called "Koźlak" since then. Today it is part of the Budry rural community in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The former Wilhelmshöh was parish up until 1945 in the Evangelical Church of Buddern in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Koźlak belongs to the Protestant parish of Węgorzewo , a branch of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish Budry in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Koźlak is located on a side street that branches off from the Polish voivodship road DW 650 - the former German Reichsstraße 136 - at Różanka-Dwór (Rose Valley) and leads to Piłaki Małe (Klein Pillacken , 1923 to 1945 Lindenwiese) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 527
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Wilhelmshöh
  3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476