Skandławki

Skandławki
	Skandławki
	Skandławki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Srokovo
Geographic location :	54 ° 16 ' N , 21 ° 25' E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '50 " N , 21 ° 25' 23" E
Residents :	75 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-410
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Jegławki ↔ Łęknica
	Gęsiki - Suchawa → Skandławki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Skandławki ( German Skandlack ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Srokowo ( Drengfurth ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg ).

Geographical location

The village is located in northeastern Poland, about seven kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . The municipality seat Srokowo is eight kilometers southeast, the district town Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ) 21 kilometers south.

history

Local history

Skandlack (after 1785 also Sckandlack ) was in 1785 a "noble estate with 12 fireplaces". In 1817 it had 12 residential buildings in which 187 people lived. Around 1821 the land became the property of the Siegfried family on Jäglack ( Jegławki in Polish ). 750 meters west of the village, a larger brick factory was built , which was of regional importance.

On 30 April 1874 Skandlack office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1929 and the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On September 30, 1928 was Gutsbezirk Skandlack its municipal autonomy and joined with the rural community and the Gutsbezirk Sausgoerken (Polish Suchawa ) and parts of Jäglack ( Jegławki ) to the new rural community Sausgoerken together. The district of Sandlack was renamed on April 8, 1929 in "District of Sausgörken".

In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Skandlack became part of the People's Republic of Poland as Skandławki . A state agricultural cooperative was established here and apartments for the cooperative's workers were set up in the manor house. In 1970 there were 104 inhabitants in Skandławki. In 1973 the village became part of the Schulzenamt ( sołectwo ) Wilczyny (Wolfshagen) in the municipality of Srokowo.

Population numbers

year	number
1820	187
1885	137
1905	122
1910	140
1970	104

Skandlack District (1874–1929)

When it was established, four villages belonged to the Skandlack district. In 1929 only two were reclassified to the successor Sausgörken district:

German name	Polish name	Remarks
Meistersfelde	Gęsiki
Sausgörken (village)	Suchawa
Sausgörken (good)		1928 incorporated into the rural community of Sausgörken
Skandlack	Skandławki	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Sausgörken

Skandlack Castle

The Skandlack Castle in 1844 in spätklassizistischem style built as a farmhouse. built. The plans for this came from the architect Leo von Klenze (1784–1864). Around 1900 an area of 506 hectares belonged to the estate, 160 hectares of which were forest. From the interior of the house, an old oak staircase with beautiful carving and banister paneling has been preserved, as well as doors and window frames.

The once huge park with two larger ponds that once belonged to the castle has overgrown today. Originally it had a wide variety of tree species and picturesque lines of sight.

church

Until 1945, Skandlack was parish in the Protestant Church of Barten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of Rastenburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Skandławki belongs again on the Protestant side to Barciany, now located in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . And on the Catholic side, too, the place is incorporated into Barciany and belongs to the Herz-Mariä-Kirche there .

traffic

The village Skandławki is located on a side road, the south to approximately three kilometers for Jegławki (Jäglack) in the provincial road 650 opens. In a westerly direction, the road leads via Suchawa (Sausgörken) and Gęsiki (Meistersfelde) to Barciany (Barten) . In the north, the road divides after about two kilometers at Łęknica .

The place no longer has its own rail connection. Until 1945 Skandlack was a train station on the Barten – Nordenburg railway , which was operated by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen and was not reactivated after 1945. The next train station today is located twenty kilometers south in Kętrzyn or southwest in about the same distance in Korsze (Korschen) . There are direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Posen as well as to Ełk (Lyck) and Białystok .

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 90 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport, Gdansk, about 190 kilometers to the west .

Personalities

Native of the place

Julius Siegfried (born July 9, 1835 in Skandlack), German administrative officer († 1901)

literature

Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 225 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).