Rączki (Nidzica)

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Rączki (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Nidzica
Gmina : Nidzica
Geographic location : 53 ° 25 '  N , 20 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '32 "  N , 20 ° 19' 47"  E
Height : 183 m npm
Residents : 144 (2011)
Postal code : 13-100
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NNI
Economy and Transport
Street : S 7 ( E 77 ): Danzig - Elbląg - Olsztynek ↔ Nidzica - Warsaw - Rabka-Zdrój
Ext. 619 : Frąknowo ↔ Załuski
Moczysko / ext. 545 - Orłowo - Łyna ↔ Szkotowo
Rail route : Railway Działdowo – Olsztyn
Railway station: Łyna
Next international airport : Danzig
Warsaw



Rączki ( German  Rontzken , 1938–45 Hornheim ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to the Gmina Nidzica (city and rural community Neidenburg ) in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).

Geographical location

The village of Rączki is located south of Frąknowo (Frankenau) , east of Szkotowo (Skottau) , north of Załuski (Salusken , Breitenfelde from 1933 to 1945 ) and west of Dobrzyn (Gutfeld) in the southwest of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers northwest of the district town of Nidzica ( German  Neidenburg ).

history

Rączki was founded as Rawntzky ( Rontzken ) in 1351. The estate, which has existed since then, was converted into a farming village in 1659. This is remarkable in that at that time the opposite was often the case.

In 1874 Rontzken was incorporated into the newly established Lahna district ( Łyna in Polish ) in the East Prussian district of Neidenburg , to which the village belonged until 1945. Rontzken had 237 inhabitants in 1910.

During the First World War , Rontzken was in the area of ​​the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 . The residents had previously fled to western East Prussia . About half of the place was destroyed, but rebuilt in a short time.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Rontzken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Rontzken, 125 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

In 1933 there were 255 registered residents in Rontzken. For political and ideological reasons of the defense against foreign appearing place names, the village was renamed on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938 in "Hornheim". A year later, the number of inhabitants was 240; at the end of World War II , the inhabitants tried to flee just before the invasion of the Red Army on January 18, 1945. The next day the village was taken by the Soviet army and later handed over to the People's Republic of Poland . The place was the Polish name form "Raczki" and is now the seat of Schulz Office (Polish Sołectwo ) is a village in the composite of Gmina Nidzica (urban and rural community Neidenburg ) in nidzica county (district Neidenburg ) until 1998, the Olsztyn province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong. In 2011 Rączki had 144 inhabitants.

church

Rontzken resp. Hornheim was integrated into the Protestant Church of Skottau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 , and also into the Roman Catholic Church of Neidenburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Rączki belongs on the Catholic side to the parish church in Szkotowo in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the church in Gardienen ( Gardyny in Polish ), a branch church of the Nidzica parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Rontzken received a school for the first time in 1859, before the children went to school in Skottau .

traffic

Rączki has its own junction on the S 7 expressway (also European route 77 here ), which connects Gdansk with Warsaw and beyond with Rabka-Zdrój . The provincial road 619 of Frąknowo (Frankenau) according Zaluski (Salusken , 1933-1945 width field) passes through the village, which otherwise with neighboring locations Szkotowo (Skottau) and Łyna (Lahna) and Moczysko (Aerie) at the provincial road 545 is connected by side streets .

The nearest train station is Łyna on the Działdowo – Olsztyn railway line ( German  Soldau – Allenstein ).

literature

  • Max Meyhöfer: The rural communities of the Neidenburg district. A contribution to the settlement, population development and economic history from the 14th century to 1945 . District community Neidenburg / Ostpr. eV, Landshut 1969 ( Neidenburger Heimatbücher 2).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wieś Rączki w liczbach (Polish)
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 1074 (Polish)
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Hornheim
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Lahna district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Neidenburg district
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 91
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher, local book, Neidenburg district
  8. ↑ Gmina Nidzica: Sołectwa (Polish)
  9. ↑ circle Neidenburg in AGoFF