Pochwałki

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Pochwałki
Pochwałki does not have a coat of arms
Pochwałki (Poland)
Pochwałki
Pochwałki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Budry
Geographic location : 54 ° 19 '  N , 21 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '54 "  N , 21 ° 47' 47"  E
Height : 116 m npm
Residents : 65
Postal code : 11-606
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : OłownikMniszki - Maryszki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Pochwałki ( German  Friedrichsfelde , 1938 to 1945 Sandenfelde ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Pochwałki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The former and today Russian preferred territory county seat Darkehmen (1939-1946 Angerapp, Russian Osjorsk ) located 18 kilometers north-east, today's district metropolis Węgorzewo (Angerburg) is twelve kilometers to the southwest away.

history

The former Friedrichsfelde originally consisted of a Vorwerk and a forestry department . 41 people lived in 1818 in the nobleman Vorwerk, the one living space in Gutsbezirk or later rural community Launingken (1938-1945 sands, Polish Ołownik) in the district Darkehmen in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia formed. Launingken was also the official village.

In 1905 Friedrichsfelde had 86 inhabitants in four houses.

On June 3, 1938, the place was renamed "Sandenfelde".

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with the whole of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of the name “Pochwałki”. Today it is part of the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Ołownik within the rural community Budry (Buddern) , now the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ) and before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Friedrichsfelde was parish in the Protestant church Dombrowken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish Darkehmen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic residents of Pochwałki belong to the parish of Olszewo Węgorzewskie - with a branch church in Ołownik (Launingken , 1938 to 1945 Sanden) - in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant church members of the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch parish of the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

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Pochwałki is located in the area of ​​the state border between Poland and Russia on an impassable side road that connects Ołownik ( Launingken , 1938 to 1945 Sanden ) with Mniszki (Nonnenberg) and Maryszki (Marienwalde) .

Until 1945 Launingken was the next train station, it was on the Gumbinnen – Angerburg railway line, which has not been in operation since then due to the demarcation of the border .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 940
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sandenfelde
  3. (District Darkehmen) Friedrichsfelde (at GenWiki)
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Launingken / Sanden district
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Book I, 1907, DNB  365941670 , ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 28 f .
  6. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477