Marcinkowo (Mrągowo)

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Marcinkowo
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Marcinkowo (Poland)
Marcinkowo
Marcinkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mrągowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 21 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '33 "  N , 21 ° 16' 17"  E
Residents : 927 (2011)
Postal code : 11-700
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Biskupiec - SorkwityMrągowo - Orzysz - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Bagienice Małe → Marcinkowo
Karwie → Marcinkowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Marcinkowo [ mart͡ɕinˈkɔvɔ ] ( German  Mertinsdorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Mrągowo ( rural community Sensburg ) in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Marcinkowo is located on the north bank of the Mertinsdorfer See ( Polish Jezioro Marcinkowskie ) in the middle of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , three kilometers west of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

The location of Marcinkowos on the western outskirts of Mrągowos
Primary school in Marcinkowo
Stork's nest in Marcinkowo

history

The place called Marczinkowen and Martensdorf before 1785 was first mentioned in 1422. A second company was founded in 1555. Between 1874 and 1945 Mertinsdorf was in the District Bagnowen ( Polish Bagienice ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Althöfen" renamed - to Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Mertinsdorf, 560 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Mertinsdorf was also affected. It was given the Polish form of the name "Marcinkowo". Today, the village seat of a Schulz Office ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such, a town in the composite of Gmina Mrągowo (Town Sensburg ) in mrągowo county (Kreis Sensburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn Province (Olsztyn) , since the Warmia and Mazury belong.

Development of the population

year number
1867 544
1910 801
1933 921
1939 892
2011 927

church

Until 1945, Mertinsdorf was parish both on the Protestant and Catholic sides in the city of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union or in the then diocese of Warmia . Even today there is still a connection to the district town, which today belongs to the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Bus stop in Marcinkowo

Street

Marcinkowo is located on the important east-west axis of state road 16 , which runs through three voivodeships . In addition, the village is connected to the neighboring towns of Bagienice Małe (Klein Bagnowen , Bruchwalde 1929-1945 ) and Karwie (Karwen) via side roads.

rails

By the northwestern location area, the former runs railway Czerwonka elk (Roth flow-Elk) , which with its stations Sensburg (Mrągowo) and Bagnowen (1938-1945 Althöfen , Polish Bagienice provided) for the train connection Mertinsdorfs (Marcinkowo). The railway line is no longer in operation.

Web links

Commons : Marcinkowo (Mrągowo)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 764
  2. ^ A b Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Mertinsdorf
  3. Rolf Jehke, District Bagnowen / Althöfen
  4. Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 114
  5. a b Mertinsdorf (district Sensburg) at GenWiki
  6. Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Sensburg (Polish Mragowo)
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Sensburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Wieś Marcinkowo w liczbach