Kulka (Dźwierzuty)

Kulka
	Kulka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Dźwierzuty
Geographic location :	53 ° 40 '  N , 21 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '56 "  N , 21 ° 3' 25"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-120
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Orzyny / ext. 600 → Kulka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kulka ( German  Kulk ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Kulka is located on the west bank of the Great Lenksee ( Jezioro Łęsk in Polish ) in a nature reserve ("Rezerwat przyrody Kulka") in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , twelve kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

history

The small town, called Kulken around 1785 and Kulka around 1820, consisted in its core of a forester's house and an inn and was until 1945 as a forester's house Kulk a place of residence in the community of Jablonken (1938 to 1945 Wildenau (East Pr.) , Polish Jabłonka ) in the East Prussian district Ortelsburg .

1945 Kulk was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Kulka". Today the small forest settlement ("Osada leśna") is a place within the rural community Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945, Kulk was parish in the Protestant Church of Theerwisch ( Targowo in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Mensguth in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Kulka belongs to the Protestant church Rańsk (Rheisnwein) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church Targowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Kulka can be reached directly from Voivodship Road 600 via a junction at Orzyny (Erben) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Web links

• Historic photo of Kulk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 633
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geography Ortregister East Prussia (2005): Kulk
3. ^ Jablonken / Wildenau near the Ortelsburg district community
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
5. ^ Catholic parish Mensguth at GenWiki