Linkowo

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Linkowo
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Linkowo (Poland)
Linkowo
Linkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Kętrzyn
Geographic location : 54 ° 6 ′  N , 21 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 51 ″  N , 21 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  E
Residents : 130
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Ełk – Korsze
Next international airport : Danzig



Linkowo (German Schrengen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the powiat Kętrzyński , Gmina Kętrzyn (rural community Rastenburg ). Linkowo forms a Schulzenamt ( sołectwo ) to which the villages Kotkowo , Linkowo and Owczarki belong.

geography

Linkowo is located in northern Poland, about 26 kilometers south of the Polish state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . Neighboring villages are Starynia in the north and Kotkowo in the east .

history

Today's Linkowo was founded in 1400 under Magdeburg law . The area belonging to the village was ten hooves . In the 17th century, Stefan Sadorski (approx. 1584–1640) was secretary to King Sigismund III. Wasa owner of the place. From 1700 to 1793 Schrengen belonged to the von der Gröben family . In the 18th century, a village school was built on the initiative of the Rastenburg superintendent Andreas Schumann . A mansion was built around 1800 . In 1817 the village was just a suburb with 13 residential buildings in which 108 people lived. After the von der Groeben, the owner changed several times until the estate went bankrupt in the 1920s.

In January 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the area and with it Schrengen was captured by the Red Army and came to Poland as a result of the war. The first village chief ( sołtys ) was Jan Śmigulski . A year after the end of the war a school was built in Linkowo. In 1970 the railway station in the village, which now had 203 inhabitants, was rebuilt. 1973 Linkowo became a Schulzenamt ( sołectwo ) in the municipality Kętrzyn, to which the villages Kotkowo , Linkowo and Owczarki belonged.

traffic

Linkowo is located on a side road that meets the provincial road 592 ( droga wojewódzka 592 ) after about four kilometers in a north-westerly direction . In a south-easterly direction, the road leads to Voivodship Road 594 after about four kilometers.

Linkowo has its own train station on the route from Kętrzyn to Korsze .

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 Wałęsa Airport, Gdansk, about 190 kilometers to the west .

Sons and daughters of the village

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. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gmina Kętrzyn website, “Miejscowości gminne”, April 5, 2006
  2. ↑ Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic , 1978, p. 297