Leśniewo (Srokowo)

Leśniewo
	Leśniewo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Srokovo
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '53 "  N , 21 ° 33' 24"  E
Residents :	230 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-420
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 650 : ( Kętrzyn -) Stara Różanka - Srokowo ↔ Stawki - Węgorzewo
	Rydzówka → Leśniewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
Administration (as of 2008)
Village chief :	Henryk Flis

Leśniewo ( German  Fürstenau ) is a Polish village in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), Gmina Srokowo (rural municipality Drengfurth ). Leśniewo forms a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo ) , to which the villages Księży Dwór (Fürstenhof) and Kaczory (Fürstenwalde) belong.

Geographical location

Leśniewo is located in the north of Masuria on the southwestern edge of the Rehsauer See ( Jezioro Rydzówka in Polish ), about 12 kilometers south of the Polish border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast and 20 kilometers northeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).  

history

Local history

Fürstenau , called Förstenau around 1800 , was laid out between 1380 and 1390 according to Kulmer law . The area belonging to the village was 52 Włóka . In 1785 there were 38 residential buildings in the “royal farming village”.

Since 1852 and 1854, the residential areas Fürstenhof ( Księży Dwór in Polish ) and Fürstenwalde ( Kaczory in Polish ) belonged to Fürstenau .

On April 30, 1874, Fürstenau became the official seat and thus eponymous for an administrative district that belonged to the district of Rastenburg in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . When the municipality of Drengfurth (Polish: Srokowo ) was incorporated into the Fürstenau district on June 20, 1934 , it lost its name and was renamed the Drengfurth district.

In January 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the area was captured by the Red Army and subsequently became part of Poland. In 1970 Leśniewo had 367 inhabitants. At that time there was a four-class elementary school, a library point and a cinema for 60 people in the village.

In 1973 the place became the seat of a Schulzenamt (Sołectwo) and is now a place in the Gmina Srokowo (Drengfurth) association in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year	number
1820	445
1885	750
1905	645
1910	610
1933	724
1939	778
1970	367
2011	230

Fürstenau District (1874–1934)

The Fürstenau district consisted of three municipalities at the time of its existence:

German name	Polish name
Drengfurth, suburb
Fürstenau	Leśniewo
Marienthal	Kosakovo

church

Evangelical

Until 1945 Fürstenau was parish in the Protestant parish church of Drengfurth in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The relationship to Srokowo continues. Leśniewo belongs to the local Evangelical Church , a branch church of the parish Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945, Fürstenau was part of the Rastenburg parish , which had its own chapel in Drengfurth . After 1945, the Catholic community took over the former Protestant church as the Catholic parish church within the Archdiocese of Warmia .

Masurian Canal

Ruins of the Fürstenau lower lock

The unfinished construction of the Fürstenau upper lock

The Masurian Canal ( Kanał Mazurski in Polish ) runs through the eastern part of Leśniewos . Coming from the north from the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( German Königsberg region ) it leaves the Rehsauer See (Polish Jezioro Rydzówka ) here. After a few hundred meters, it meets the current structure of the Fürstenau lower lock ( Śluza Leśniewo Dolne in Polish ). Only 700 meters further east is the Fürstenau upper lock ( Śluza Leśniewo Górne ), which was supposed to be the tenth and last lock of the canal with a drop height of 17 meters, but was only 40% completed.  

traffic

Street

Leśniewo is located at 650 Voivodeship Road . This leads in an easterly direction after about twelve kilometers to Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and crosses state road 63 there . In a westerly direction it leads after about one kilometer through the seat of the municipality Srokowo (Drengfurth) and ends after about 13 kilometers in Stara Różanka (Alt Rosenthal) at the gates of the city of Kętrzyn . A side road leads from Rydzówka along the banks of the Rehsauer See to Leśniewo.

rail

The nearest train station is in Kętrzyn , about 20 kilometers to the south , where the PKP offers direct connections to Korsze (Korschen) and Białystok .

air

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 100 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Walesa Airport in Gdansk, about 200 kilometers to the west . The most important airport in Poland, Warsaw Chopin Airport, is located 230 kilometers southwest of Leśniewo.

Web links

Commons : Leśniewo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Historical photos of Fürstenau

literature

• Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 201 (Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2017
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 648
3. ↑ ^{a b} Website of Gmina Srokowo, “Sołectwa” , accessed on June 2, 2008
4. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Fürstenau
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Fürstenau (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, District Fuerstenau / Drengfurth
7. ^ Wieś Leśniewo w liczbach
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473