Oko (Ruciane-Nida)

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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location : 53 ° 35 '  N , 21 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '13 "  N , 21 ° 32' 42"  E
Residents : 20 (2006)
Postal code : 12-220
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Kowalik → Oko
Lisiczyn → Oko
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Oko [ ˈɔkɔ ] ( German  Eichhorst ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Ruciane-Nida ( urban and rural community Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

geography

Oko is located on the east bank of the Lower Lake ( Jezioro Nidzkie in Polish ) in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Pisz ( German Johannisburg ).  

Oko can be reached from Kowalik ( German  Kowallik , from 1938 to 1945 Müllershof and today a district of Ruciane-Nida ) or from Lisiczyn via a land route.

history

When Eichhorst was founded is not documented. Until 1945 the place for the rural municipality belonged Cross oven ( Polish Krzyże ) in the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The local forestry department was subordinate to the Rudczanny State Forest (now Ruciane in Polish and a district of Ruciane-Nida).

1945 came Eichhorst in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Oko". Today the small town is part of the urban and rural community Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Eichhorst was parish with the mother community Kreuzofen in the Evangelical Church Kurwien ( Polish Karwica ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the evangelical inhabitants of Okos orient themselves towards Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , while the Catholic church members belong to the parish church in Karwica in the diocese of Ełk of the Polish Catholic Church .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 845
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Eichhorst