Stawki (Węgorzewo)

Stawki
	Stawki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 21 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '37 "  N , 21 ° 37' 21"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-600
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 650 : Stara Różanka - Srokowo ↔ Węgorzewo - Gołdap
	Przystań → Stawki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Stawki ( German  Stawken , 1938 to 1945 Staken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Stawki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers west of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .

history

The small village, known as the 1558 pass , consisted of a manor and a forest house a few hundred meters to the south-west before 1945. Before 1785 the place was called Staffken , after 1785 Stawcken , and until 1938 Stawken .

In 1874 Stawken was in the newly built office district Steinort ( Polish Sztynort ) incorporated, which the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The manor district of Stawken had 155 inhabitants in 1910, before it merged with the manor district of Pristanien ( Przystań in Polish ) on October 17, 1928 to form the new rural municipality of Pristanien (1938 to 1945 Passdorf). On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Stawken was renamed "Staken".

As a result of the war, the village and southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name “Stawki”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), which is responsible for Mamerki (Mauerwald) , Przystań and Stawki and belongs to the association of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship assigned.

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Stawken resp. Before 1945 Stakens was parish in the Engelstein Church (Węgielsztyn) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , the few Catholic residents in the Angerburg Church of the Good Shepherd in the Diocese of Warmia . Today the once Protestant church in Węgielsztyn to competent Catholic parish within the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant church members to the church in Węgorzewo include a daughter church of the parish Giżycko (Giżycko) in the Diocese Mazury of Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Stawki is conveniently located on the Polish voivodeship road DW 650 on the district border between the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ) and the Kętrzyński powiat ( Rastenburg district ). The nearest train station is Przystań (Pristanien , 1938 to 1945 Passdorf) on the Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo (Rastenburg – Angerburg) railway, which is no longer regularly operated .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1205
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortsregiste Ostpreußen (2005): Staken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Steinort District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476