Leśny Zakątek

Leśny Zakątek
	Leśny Zakątek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 8 '  N , 22 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '50 "  N , 22 ° 9' 59"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 - Czerwony Dwór ↔ Kruklanki - Spytkowo / DK 63
	Boćwinka / ext. 650 → Leśny Zakątek
	Mazury → Leśny Zakątek
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Leśny Zakątek ( German  Waldkater ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district) .

Geographical location

Leśny Zakątek is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the middle of the Borkener Forest (also: Borker Heide, Polish: Puszcza Borecka) north of the Jezioro Piłwąg (Pillwung Lake) . The former district town of Gołdap (Goldap) is 20 kilometers to the northeast, the current district metropolis of Olecko (Marggrabowa / Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is 24 kilometers to the southeast.

history

Before 1945, the small village called Waldkater at that time consisted only of an inn and was a residential area of ​​the rural community of Czerwony Dwór (Rothebude) located one and a half kilometers away in the forest . This was incorporated into the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

With the assignment of the whole of southern East Prussia to Poland as a result of the Second World War , the place received the Polish name Leśny Zakątek and today forms an independent village within the rural community of Kowale Oleckie in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated.

Religions

On the evangelical side, Waldkater was assigned to the church in Grabowen (1938 to 1945: Arnswald, Polish: Grabowo) in the parish of Goldap within the church province of East Prussia, to the church of the Old Prussian Union . On the Catholic side , the village was parish after Goldap , then located in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945, the Catholic Church members for the newly built parish include Grabowo in the deanery Gołdap in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant to parish Gołdap include a filial community of the parish of Suwalki in the diocese Mazury of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Leśny Zakątek is located on a side road, the kowale oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938-1945 Reimannswalde) at the Polish national road DK 65 (former German National Highway 132 ) with czerwony dwór (Rothe Bude) and Kruklanki (Kruklanki) connects and up to Spytkowo (Spirgsten) of the state road DK 63 ( Reichsstraße 131 ) leads. In town ends a side road coming from the north of Boćwinka (Alt Bodschwingken , 1938 to 1945 Alt Herandstal) - located on the voivodship road DW 650 ( Reichsstraße 136 ) - as well as another one coming from the south from Mazury .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Waldkater (2005)
2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479