Ogonki (Węgorzewo)

Ogonki
	Ogonki
	Ogonki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 11 ' N , 21 ° 49' E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '55 " N , 21 ° 48' 35" E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : Russia - Perły - Węgorzewo ↔ Giżycko - Pisz - Sławatycze / Belarus
	Harsz - Okowizna → Ogonki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Ogonki ( German Ogonken , 1938 to 1945 Schwenten ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Ogonki lies on the Jezioro Święcajty ( German Schwenzaitsee ) and on the Groß Strengelner See (Jezioro Stręgiel) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is six kilometers to the north-west.

history

The village, called Schwintz after 1410 , Ogonicken before 1785 , Ogontken after 1785 and Ogonken until 1938 , was assigned to the newly established district of Groß Strengeln ( Stręgiel in Polish ) in 1874 . This was until 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, Ogonken had 408 inhabitants. Their number rose to 643 by 1925, was 733 in 1933 and was 829 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Ogonken was renamed "Schwenten" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of name "Ogonki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a village in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 the evangelical population of Ogonken resp. Tens swing in the parish Angerburg in the church district Angerburg within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish. The Catholic residents belonged to the Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the Deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today the predominantly Catholic church members are assigned to the former Protestant parish church in Węgorzewo , now known as the Church of St. Peter and Paul , which belongs to the Węgorzewo deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant inhabitants are now part of the parish Węgorzewo, in turn, filial community of the parish Giżycko (Giżycko) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland is.

traffic

Ogonki is extremely conveniently located on the Polish state road DK 63 (section of the former German Reichsstraße 131 ), which leads from the Polish-Russian state border (a crossing point is planned) through eastern Masuria to the Polish-Belarusian border. In addition, a side road from Harsz (Haarschen) ends at Haarschener See ( Jezioro Harsz in Polish ) via Okowizna (Numeiten) in Ogonki.

Until 1945 Ogonken resp. Schwenten railway station on the railway line Angerburg – Lötzen , which connected the two district towns of Angerburg (Węgorzewo) and Lötzen (Giżycko) and in Kruglanken (Kruklanki) had a connection to a branch line to Marggrabowo (Oletzko) / Treuburg (Olecko). Both railway lines are now out of service, the Kruglanki - Giżycko section was used until 1987.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 845
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schwenten
^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Strengeln district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Angerburg district (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Picture of the war-damaged train station in Ogonki near Ogólnopolska bazakolejowa

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 845

[2] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schwenten

[3] Rolf Jehke, Groß Strengeln district

[4] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Angerburg district (Polish Wegorzewo). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] Picture of the war-damaged train station in Ogonki near Ogólnopolska bazakolejowa