Módłki

Módłki
	Módłki
	Módłki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Nidzica
Gmina :	Nidzica
Geographic location :	53 ° 22 ' N , 20 ° 32' E Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '56 " N , 20 ° 32' 29" 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
Next international airport :	Danzig
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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

[wies-1] Wieś Módłki w liczbach (Polish)

[2] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 797 (Polish)

[3] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Moddelkau

[Jehke-4] Rolf Jehke, district of Bartoschken / Bartzdorf (East Pr.)

[5] Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district

[Rademacher-6] Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district

[7] Gmina Nidzica: Sołectwa (Polish)

[8] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495

[9] rcle Neidenburg in AGoFF