Lelkowo
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Braniewski | ||
| Gmina : | Lelkowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 19 ' N , 20 ° 13' E | ||
| Residents : | 1080 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 14-521 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 55 | ||
| License plate : | NBR | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DW510 : Głębock ↔ Pieniężno | ||
| Żelazna Góra ↔ Górowo Iławeckie | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport | ||
Lelkowo [ lɛlˈkɔvɔ ] ( German Lichtenfeld ) is a village in the Braniewski powiat in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 2854 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
location
Lelkowo is located on Voivodship Road 510 (former German Reichsstraße 126 ), which leads from the Russian-Polish border (until 1945 starting in Ludwigsort (Russian: Laduschkin) via Zinten (Kornewo)) near Głębock (Tiefensee) to Pieniężno (flour sack) . In Lelkowo it is crossed by a side road that connects Żelazna Góra (Eisenberg) in the west with Górowo Iławeckie (Landsberg in East Prussia) in the east.
From 1885 to 1945 the community, then called Lichtenfeld , was a railway station on the route from Königsberg (Prussia) (now Russian: Kaliningrad) via Zinten to Allenstein (Olsztyn). The railway line no longer exists today - the station building is still there. Coming on the road from Müngen (Miłaki) or Mühlenfeld (Mlyniec), the embankment is still clearly visible at the entrance to Lichtenfeld, as the road leads over it.
history
The village of Lichtenfeld was founded between 1320 and 1330, although the charter was later lost. In 1361 the Schulze was mentioned in a document as a Landschöppe .
In 1910 the place had 812 inhabitants. Their number fell to 770 by 1933 and was 795 in 1939.
From June 11, 1874 to 1945, the municipality of Lichtenfeld was incorporated into the Eichholz district (today in Polish: Dębowiec) and belonged to the Heiligenbeil district (today in Russian: Mamonowo) in the Königsberg (Kaliningrad) district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
Lichtenfeld has been Polish under the name Lelkowo since 1945 and is the seat of its own municipality in the Braniewski powiat in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (1975 to 1998 Elbląg Voivodeship ). Today the village has more than 1000 inhabitants.
Religions
Until 1945, Lichtenfeld was incorporated into the parish of Eichholz (Dębowiec) in the church district of Heiligenbeil (Mamonowo) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union with its majority Protestant population . The last German clergyman was Friedrich Wilhelm Grunz .
After 1945 a Catholic church was built in Lelkowo , which today is a branch church in the parish Dębowiec in the deanery Pieniężno ( flour sack ) in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . In addition, an Orthodox church was built in Lelkowo . Protestant church members living here belong to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
school
A school had existed in Lichtenfeld since 1775. Most recently it was three-tiered.
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Lelkowo with an area of 198 km² includes the village itself and 14 other villages with school administration offices (sołectwa). Its northern border is the Polish-Russian state border ( Kaliningrad Oblast ).
literature
- Wulf D. Wagner : The goods of the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia. Rautenberg, Leer 2005, ISBN 3-7921-0640-X .