Lipnik (Szczytno)

Lipnik
	Lipnik
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Szczytno
Geographic location :	53 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '19 "  N , 21 ° 1' 0"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-100
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ruski Bór ↔ Siódmak
Rail route :	Railway line (Ostrołęka–) Chorzele – Szczytno Railway station: Siódmak
Next international airport :	Danzig

Lipnik ( German  Lipnik , 1938 to 1945 Jägerforst ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Szczytno (rural municipality Ortelsburg ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Lipnik is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers south of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German  ).

history

Lipnik (sometimes also: Lipnick ) belonged to the state forest or manor district Oberförsterei Reusswalde ( Ruski Bór in Polish ) as a forester's house and residential area - with nine residents in one residential building in 1905 , and later until 1945 to the rural community of Worfengrund ( Czarkowy Grąd in Polish ) in the East Prussian district Ortelsburg . For political and ideological reasons of the defense against foreign-sounding place names, Lipnik was given the changed place name "Jägerforst" on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938.

As a result of the war, the place was transferred to Poland with the entire southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish name form "Lipnik". Today the hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) is a place within the rural community of Szctyno (Ortelsburg) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Lipnik resp. Jägerforst parish in the Protestant Church of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church of Ortelsburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Lipnik belongs church hand as ever to the city of: the Catholic parish of Szczytno in the current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia and Protestant church Szczytno , now the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland assigned.

traffic

Lipnik is located on a side road that - crossing state road 58 - connects the villages of Ruski Bór (Reusswalde) and Siódmak (Schodmack , Wiesendorf , 1938 to 1945 ) . Siodmak is the nearest station and is located on the only from Chorzele busy railway line Ostrołęka-Szczytno .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 656
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, pp. 206/207.
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Lipnik
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496