Lipniki (Jedwabno)

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Lipniki (Poland)
Lipniki
Lipniki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Szczytno
Gmina : Jedwabno
Geographic location : 53 ° 33 '  N , 20 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '47 "  N , 20 ° 42' 22"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 12-122
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street : Jedwabno / DK 58 → Lipniki
Burdąg → Lipniki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Lipniki ( German  Lipnicken ) is a small town in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Lipniki is located in the southwestern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 28 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Neidenburg ( Nidzica in Polish ) and 19 kilometers west of today's district metropolis of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ).  

history

The former small Gutsort Lipnicken (before 1785 Lipniken ) was founded in 1720. In 1874, which was rural community in the newly built office district Jedwabno integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Gedwangen" - to 1945 and the East Prussian district of Neidenburg belonged. In 1910 Lipnicken had 31 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928 Lipnicken lost its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ).

In war-induced Lipnicken 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Lipniki". The hamlet ( Osada in Polish ) is now the seat of a Schulzenamt and a village in the community of Jedwabno (Gedwangen) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Lipnicken was oriented towards Jedwabno until 1945: to the Protestant church there in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union, and to the Catholic parish church, which at that time belonged to the Diocese of Warmia .

The reference to Jedwabno still exists today - within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Lipniki can be reached directly from Jedwabno, as well as from Burdąg (Burdungen) . There is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 656 (Polish)
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Lipnicken
  3. a b Rolf Jehke, Jedwabno / Gedwangen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  5. Urząd Gminy Jedwabno: Sołectwa
  6. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 494