Kruki (Banie Mazurskie)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Gołdap | ||
| Gmina : | Banie Mazurskie | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 19 ′ N , 22 ° 6 ′ E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NGO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Obszarniki ↔ Widgiry | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Kruki ( German Krugken , 1938 to 1945 Krucken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the powiat Gołdapski ( Goldap district ).
Geographical location
Kruki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 12 kilometers west of the district town Gołdap (Goldap) and 12 kilometers southeast of the former district capital Darkehmen (1938 to 1946 Angerapp, Russian Osjorsk ), which is now on Russian territory .
history
The place called Kruckey after 1566, Kruckisz after 1594 and Krugken until 1938 consisted of several large and small courtyards before 1945.
From 1874 to 1945 the village belonged to the administrative district of Abschermeningken ( Polish Obszarniki ), which - renamed in 1939 to "Almental district" - part of the Darkehmen district - called "Angerapp district" in 1939 - was in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
Krugken had 70 inhabitants in 1910. Their number was 67 in 1933 and 69 in 1939.
Krugken - renamed "Krucken" in 1938 - came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Kruki". Today the place is integrated into the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Jagiele (Jaggeln , 1938 to 1945 Kleinzedmar) and forms a place in the network of the rural community Banie Mazurskie in the powiat Gołdapski , before 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
Before 1945 Krugken resp. Krucken in the Protestant church in Kleszowen (1938 to 1946 Kleschauen, Russian Kutusowo ) in the church district Darkehmen / Angerapp in the church province of East Prussia in the church of the Old Prussian Union or in the Catholic parish in Goldap in the deanery Masuria II in the diocese of Warmia .
Today the Catholic residents of Krukis belong to the parish church in Żabin (Klein Szabienen / Schabienen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinlautersee) in the Gołdap deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant church members are oriented towards the church in Gołdap Subsidiary church of the parish Suwałki in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Kruki is located away from the traffic in the Polish-Russian border area on a connecting road from Obszarniki (Abschernmeningken , 1938 to 1945 Almental) to Widgiry (Wittgirren , 1938 to 1945 Wittbach) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Krucken
- ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Abschermeningken / Almental
- ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Darkehmen
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Darkehmen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 478