Leśniki (Świętajno)

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Leśniki
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Leśniki (Poland)
Leśniki
Leśniki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 53 ° 56 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '12 "  N , 22 ° 23' 8"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Kukówko → Leśniki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Leśniki ( German  Leschnicken , 1938 to 1945 Kleinheinrichstal ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Leśniki is located on the north bank of Lake Gonsk (1938 to 1945 Herzogskirchener See , Polish: Jezioro Przytulskie ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 14 kilometers southwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , also colloquially: Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

The after 1785 Leschnigken before 1871 Leßnicken and until 1938 Lesch nod called small town was founded in 1562 and originally consisted only of a few small villages.

In 1874 the place was incorporated into the district of Gonsken ( Polish Gąski ), which - renamed in 1938 to "District of Herzogskirchen" - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945 Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1904, the small town, which had 86 inhabitants nine years earlier, lost its independence and was incorporated into the neighboring community of Kukowken (1938 to 1945 Heinrichstal , in Polish Kukówko ).

Leschnicken was renamed Kleinheinrichstal on June 3, 1938 for ideological and political reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has had the Polish name "Leśniki". Today it is part of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Leschnicken resp. Kleinheinrichstal parish in the Evangelical Church of Gonsken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Leśniki belongs to the Evangelical Church Ełk (Lyck) , a branch church of the parish Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Church Gąski in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Leśniki can be reached from Kukówko by land.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 648
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kleinheinrichstal
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gonsken / Herzogskirchen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484