Polany (Korsze)

Polany
	Polany
	Polany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Korsze
Geographic location :	54 ° 8 ' N , 21 ° 10' E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '14 " N , 21 ° 10' 0" E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-430 Kraskowo
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 592 : Bartoszyce - Łankiejmy ↔ Kraskowo - Garbno - Kętrzyn - Giżycko
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Polany ( German Annafeld ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Korsze ( urban and rural municipality Korschen ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Polany is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).

history

The small town of Annafeld was written before 1871 as "Annafeldt". It was founded on January 15, 1857, as noted in the official gazette of the royal Prussian government in Königsberg : “ The name Annafeldt has been added to the new mining on the Feldmark of the village of Schönfließ, in the Rastenburg district, without being included in the previous ones This changes something in communal, police and other circumstances ”. The place was a residential area in the municipality of Schönfließ (today in Polish Kraskowo ), from 1936 to 1945 an estate. In 1885 there were 44 registered residents in Annafeld, then 47 in 1905.

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Annafeld was also affected. It received the Polish name form "Polany" and is now included as "Przysiółek wsi" after Kraskowo ( German Schönfließ ). Thus it is a place within the urban and rural municipality of Korsze (Korschen) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945, Anna was in the field Sprengel Schönfließ the Protestant parish (Polish Schönfließ-Tolksdorf Kraskovo-Tołkiny ) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches and the Catholic Korschen (Polish Korsze ) in the diocese of Warmia incorporated. Today, on the Catholic side, Polany belongs to the church in Kraskowo , which is now a branch church of the Garbno parish ( German Lamgarben ) in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, one orientates oneself to the parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Polany is located on the busy Voivodship Road 592 (the former German Reichsstraße 135 ), which connects the regions of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and Giżycko (Lötzen) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 613
^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Annafeld
^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Königsberg , 1857, No. 4, Ordinance No. 16, quoted from Annafeld (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
↑ ^a ^b Annafeld (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474

[1] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 613

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

[3] Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Königsberg , 1857, No. 4, Ordinance No. 16, quoted from Annafeld (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki

[wiki-4] Annafeld (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki

[5] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474