Kotki (Barciany)

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Kotki
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Kotki (Poland)
Kotki
Kotki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 17 '  N , 21 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '59 "  N , 21 ° 18' 34"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext . 591 : Michałkowo - Aptynty ↔ Gradowo - Barciany - Kętrzyn - Mrągowo
Skandawa - Frączkowo → Kotki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Kotki ( German  Krausen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Kotki is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers south of the former district town of Gerdauen (now in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 22 kilometers northwest of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

Krausen was a large Vorwerk and until 1945 belonged to the manor district - from 1928 to the rural community - Willkamm (now Wielewo in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Gerdauen . In 1905 the place had 107 inhabitants.

When the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Krausen was also affected and received the Polish form of the name “Kotki”. Today the small settlement ( Osada in Polish ) is part of the rural community of Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Krausen was parish in the Protestant Church of Molthainen (1938 to 1945 Molteinen , Polish Mołtajny ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church Insterburg (today in Russian Chernyachovsk ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Kotki belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Anna Mołtajny in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia and to the Protestant parish of Barciany , a branch of the Kętrzyn parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Street

Kotki is located on the busy north-south voivodship road 591 (former German Reichsstrasse 141 ), which connects the Polish-Russian state border at Michałkowo (Langmichels) with Barciany (Barten) and the district towns of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Mrągowo (Sensburg) . A side road coming from Skandawa (Skandau) via Frączkowo (Fritzendorf) ends in Kotki.

rail

Kotki does not have a regular train connection. In the years 1951 to 1956, however, railway tracks were built west of the town as part of the Skandawa military transshipment region . "Kotki" was the name of a reloading station from the standard gauge 1435 mm to the (Russian) broad gauge 1524 mm and the place was a station on the railway line Anielin Gradowo-Wielewo (-Schelesnodoroschny) . From the Skandawa terminus of the Poznan – Toruń – Korsze – Skandawa railway line , a feeder track leads to Kotki. The train station was also used for trade between Poland and the Soviet Union before 1990 , but today it is hardly used at all.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 522
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Krausen
  3. ↑ a b c Krausen at GenWiki
  4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
  5. ^ Geographical location of the Kotki train station
  6. ↑ Railway line No. 205 of the Polish State Railways (PKP)