Mołtajny

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Mołtajny
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Mołtajny (Poland)
Mołtajny
Mołtajny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 21 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '50 "  N , 21 ° 21' 2"  E
Height : 40 m npm
Residents : 714 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Aptynty / ext. 591 ↔ Bobrowo - Barciany
Asuny → Mołtajny
Duje - Górki → Mołtajny
Czaczek - Arklity → Mołtajny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Mołtajny ( German  Molthainen , 1938 to 1945 Molteinen ) is a village in Poland within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Barciany (rural community Barten ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

The village is only about three kilometers south of the Polish state border with Kaliningrad Oblast . In the south, the Arklitter Lake ( Jezioro Arklickie in Polish ) borders Mołtajny. It is eight kilometers to the north to the former district town of Gerdauen (now in Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) and 24 kilometers to the south to today's district metropolis of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).  

View of the Arklitter Lake near Mołtajny

history

Residential house in Mołtajny
Apartment block in Mołtajny

Local history

It is not known exactly when today's Mołtajny was built. Between 1374 and 1379 the village's festivals were renewed. The church may have been built at this time. In the 14th century the village was called Molteyn , then Molthenen , before 1785 Multen , around 1785 Moltehnen , after 1820 Moltheinen and until June 2, 1938 Molthainen . Then the name was changed from Molthainen to Molteinen .

In 1874, Molthainen was incorporated into the newly established district of Arklitten ( Arklity in Polish ). On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Molthainen expanded to include the neighboring Arklitten estate, which - however, was incorporated without the Egloffstein (Polish Główczyno ) exclave . With effect from October 15, 1934, the Arklitten district was renamed "Molthainen district". He was one as his "predecessor" to circle Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia . From November 8, 1938, it was called "District Molteinen"

There was a labor camp here during the Second World War . At the beginning of 1945 the Red Army took the area and as a result of the war the place became part of Poland. In 1954 the village, renamed "Mołtajny", became the seat of a Gromada . In 1960 it had an area of ​​83.56 km² with 1,825 inhabitants. During this time, a new school building and a library point were also built. In 1970 there was a kindergarten, an eight-grade elementary school and a cinema with space for 80 people in the village. With the dissolution of the Gromadas belonged to the current mayor's office (Polish Sołectwo ) the five villages Arklity (Arklitten) , Błędowo (Blandau) , Gorki (Mountain) , Markuzy (Markhausen) and Mołtajny itself. Since 1977, this is so far the municipality Skandawa (Skandau ) belonging to the Schulzenamt part of the rural community Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1910 301
1933 736
1939 672
1970 234
2011 682

District Molthainen / Molteinen (1934–1945)

In the time of its existence, the district of Molthainen respectively. Molteinen in the succession of the Arklitten district only the villages:

German name Polish name Remarks
Bieberstein Bobrowo
Molthainen / Molteinen Mołtajny

church

Church building

The church in Mołtajny

Mołtajny Church is one of the oldest in the area. It was first mentioned in a document from 1384, other sources mention 1404 as the year of construction. The hall church was built from field stone . The tower of the church was raised in the 16th century. The vestibule probably dates from the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. The sacristy was probably built around 1500.

Parish

Molthainen was also a church village in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation started quite early. Molthainen was a Protestant parish until 1945 and the parish was on the border between the district town of Gerdauen (Russian: Schelesnodoroschny) and the district of Rastenburg , which is now on Russian territory . Molthainen belonged to the Gerdauen church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Mołtajny has a predominantly Roman Catholic population. The place is the seat of the parish Świętej Anny ("St. Anna") in the deanery Kętrzyn II (Rastenburg Northeast) within the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . Affiliated is the branch community in Aptynty (Aftinten) .

Protestant church members living here now belong to the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Street

Exit sign in Mołtajny

Numerous streets meet in Mołtajny. A side road runs through the village from Barciany (Barten) via Bobrowo (Bieberstein) , which leads in a westerly direction to Aptynty after about three kilometers and then joins Voivodship Road 591 (formerly German Reichsstraße 141 ). A road leads east to Asuny (Assaunen) , north to Górki (mountain) and Duje (Doyen , 1938 to 1945 Dugen) , and south to Arklity (Arklitten) and Czaczek (Schätzels) .

rails

The nearest train station is in Kętrzyn, where there are direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Poznan as well as to Ełk (Lyck) and Białystok . Kętrzyn can be reached via a regular bus connection.

Until 1945, Molthainen (Molteinen) was a train station on the Barten – Gerdauen line of the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen, which was probably opened in 1916 . This route was abandoned as a result of the war.

air

The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 80 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport, Gdansk, about 190 kilometers to the west .

education

There is a primary school in the village.

Connected to the place

  • Julius Axenfeld (1834-1896), Protestant theologian, pastor and missionary as well as founder of schools and diaconal institutions, lived for a time in Molthainen with his uncle, pastor Julius Heinersdorff
  • Friedrich Schauer (1891-1958), Protestant theologian and neo-orientalist, first director of the Evangelical Academy Baden in Herrenalb, was pastor at the Molthainen church from 1920 to 1929

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 207-208 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Mołtajny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Barciany (powiat kętrzyński, województwo warmińsko-mazurskie) w 2010 r. Online (xls file)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 794
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Molteinen
  4. ↑ a b c d e Rolf Jehke, Arklity / Molthainen / Molteinen district
  5. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de, "Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Landkreis Gerdauen"
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ a b Swat 1978, p. 208
  8. ^ Wieś Mołtajny w liczbach
  9. ↑ Moltajny - Molthainen / Molteinen at ostpreussen.net
  10. ↑ parish Molthainen