Majerka (Kruklanki)

Majerka
	Majerka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Kruklanki
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 '  N , 22 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '35 "  N , 22 ° 7' 41"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Orłowo ↔ Wolisko
	Róg Orłowski → Majerka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Majerka is a settlement in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural municipality of Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

geography

Majerka is located north of Lake Lenkuk ( Jezioro Łękuk in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is 25 kilometers to the southwest to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The small settlement (Polish osada) is located on the eastern border of the Gmina Kruklanki. It is not evident that the place had a German past, let alone a German place name. It is probably the northern, somewhat remote part of the former village of Rhog , which - belonging to the Lötzen district - was renamed Klein Lenkuk in 1938 and has been called " Róg Orłowski " since 1945 .

religion

Ecclesiastically Majerka today in the Catholic parish Orłowo (Orlowen , 1938-1945 Adlersdorf) in the Diocese of Elk and in the Protestant church Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Diocese Mazury incorporated.

traffic

Majerka can only be reached via land routes that lead from Orłowo , Wolisko (Walisko , 1938 to 1945 Waldsee) and Róg Orłowski (Rhog , 1938 to 1945 Klein Lenkuk) to here.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the map and information Rhog at GenWiki