Kolwiny

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Kolwiny
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Kolwiny (Poland)
Kolwiny
Kolwiny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '35 "  N , 21 ° 13' 11"  E
Residents : 85 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Drogosze / ext. 590 → Kolwiny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Kolwiny ( German  Kolbiehnen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Barciany (rural community Barten ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

The settlement ( Polish Osada ) Kolwiny is located on the stream Ruhne (Polish Runia ) in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

The place called Colbjehnen around 1785 and Colbiehnen after 1871 was a large Vorwerk and before 1945 belonged to Dönhofstädt (Polish Drogosze ) in the Rastenburg district . In 1820 Kolbiehnen had 110 inhabitants, in 1885 there were 163 and in 1905 152.

In 1945 the city came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Kolwiny". Today the settlement is part of the rural community Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Kolbiehnen was parish in the parish of the Evangelical Church in Groß Wolfsdorf in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and in the Catholic Church of Korschen in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Kolwiny belongs on the catholic side to the parish Drogosze in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the parish in Barciany , a branch of the Johanneskirche in Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

A side road leads to Kolwiny from Drogosze (Dönhofstädt) . Until the 1990s, Drogosze was also the nearest train station on the Toruń – Chernyakhovsk railway line , but this was discontinued from Korsze and has been completely closed since 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 491
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kolbiehnen
  4. ↑ a b Kolbiehnen at GenWiki
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473