Módłki
Módłki | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Nidzica | |
Gmina : | Nidzica | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 22 ' N , 20 ° 32' E | |
Residents : | 86 (2011) | |
Postal code : | 13-100 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | |
License plate : | NNI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Ext. 604 : Nidzica / S 7 - Grzegórzki ↔ Muszaki - Przeździęk Wielki - Wielbark / DK 57 | |
Parowa → Módłki | ||
Rail route : |
Railway line Nidzica – Wielbark (currently not used) Railway station: Muszaki |
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Next international airport : | Danzig |
Módłki ( German Modlken , 1938 to 1945 Moddelkau ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Nidzica (urban and rural community Neidenburg ) in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).
Geographical location
Módłki is located in the southwestern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers east of the district town of Nidzica ( German Neidenburg ).
history
Modlicken , the village with the pond in the center of the village, was first mentioned in 1437 . After 1574 it appears under the name Moldken , after 1871 it was called Moldtken , then again called Moldken . In 1874 it was incorporated into the district of Bartoschken (in Polish : Bartoszki ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg , to which it belonged until 1945 - after it was renamed "District of Bartzdorf (Ostpr.)" In 1938. In 1910 Modlken had 179 inhabitants.
On September 30, 1929 Modlken expanded to include the forestry settlement Springborn ( Parowa in Polish ), which was incorporated. The number of inhabitants. amounted to 216 in 1933.
For political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names, Modlken was renamed “Moddelkau” on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938. The population was 211 in 1939.
As a result of the war, Moddelkau was transferred to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . The village received the Polish name form "Módłki" and is today as the seat of a Schulzenamts (Polish Sołectwo ) a place in the network of the Gmina Nidzica (city and rural community Neidenburg ) in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Módłki had 86 inhabitants.
church
Until 1945 Modlken / Moddelkau was incorporated into the Protestant parish church of Neidenburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and also into the Roman Catholic parish church of Neidenburg in the Diocese of Warmia .
On the Catholic side, Módłki today belongs to the Roman Catholic Church of Grzegórzki (Gregersdorf) , a branch church of the parish Napiwoda (Grünfließ) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the Holy Cross Church in Nidzica (Neidenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Cemetery of honor
In Módłki there is a memorial cemetery from the First World War . 38 German soldiers who died in the Tannenberg Battle of 1914 and 134 fallen Russian soldiers are buried on it.
traffic
Módłki is located on the busy Voivodship Road 604 , which connects the S 7 expressway near Nidzica with the state road 57 near Wielbark (Willenberg) . The Parowa forest settlement is connected to the village by a road.
The nearest train station is Muszaki (Muschaken) . It lies on the - although not currently used - railway line Nidzica - Wielbark .
Web links
Historical and current recordings from Módłki:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wieś Módłki w liczbach (Polish)
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 797 (Polish)
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Moddelkau
- ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Bartoschken / Bartzdorf (East Pr.)
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
- ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district
- ↑ Gmina Nidzica: Sołectwa (Polish)
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495
- ↑ circle Neidenburg in AGoFF