Michałkowo (Barciany)

Michałkowo
	Michałkowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Barciany
Geographic location :	54 ° 19 '  N , 21 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '0 "  N , 21 ° 17' 48"  E
Residents :	56 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-410
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 591 : Mrągowo - Kętrzyn - Barciany → Michałkowo
	Skandawa - Momajny → Michałkowo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Entrance

Michałkowo [ mixau̯ˈkɔvɔ ] ( German  Langmichels ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is located in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) and belongs to the Gmina (rural community) Barciany (Barten) .

geography

Michałkowo is only one kilometer from the Polish-Russian state border in the northern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , four kilometers south of the former district town of Gerdauen (now in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 27 kilometers northwest of today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

The former long-Michels called rural community - and later Vorwerk for Good Kanoten (Polish: Kanoty , no longer in existence) - 1874 was one of five municipal units, the newly established District formed Kanoten. He belonged to the district of Gerdauen in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1932 the Kanoten district was renamed the Posegnick district (today in Russian: Sori ), but remained in the previous district until 1945.

As a result of the Second World War , Langmichels came to Poland with southern East Prussia and received the Polish name form "Michałkowo". Today the village is a place within the rural community Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Olsztyn Voivodeship ).

church

With its predominantly Protestant population Long Michels belonged until 1945 to the parish of the Church Momehnen in the parish of the city today lies in Russia Gerdauen (Russian: Schelesnodoroschny) within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . The Catholics living in Langmichels were parish in the church in Insterburg (today Russian: Tschernjachowsk ).

Today Michałkowo is home to almost all Catholics . The village is now in the parish Mołtajny (Molthainen , 1938-1945 Molteinen) with the branch church Aptynty (Aftinten) , which is part of the Deanery Kętrzyn II (Północy-Wschód) (Rastenburg Nord-Ost) in the Archdiocese of Warmia in the Catholic Church in Poland heard. Protestant church members living here are assigned to the parish of Barciany (Barten) , a subsidiary parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Blocking sign on Voivodship Road 591 to the Polish-Russian border

Michałkowo is the end point of the Polish Voivodship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ), which continued to Gerdauen (Schelenodoroschny) before 1945 , is now lost in the border area. Coming from the southwest of Skandawa (Skandau) and Momajny (Momehnen) , a side street ends in Michałkowo.

There is no train connection. In 2001, the section from Korsze (Korschen) to Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) of the Posen – Toruń – Korsze railway , which runs past Michałkowo to the west, was decommissioned.

Web links

Commons : Michałkowo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 733
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Kanoten / Posegnick
4. ↑ Gerdauen parish