Tolniki Małe
Tolniki Małe | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Kętrzyn | |
Gmina : | Reszel | |
Geographic location : | 54 ° 5 ' N , 21 ° 6' E | |
Residents : | 71 (2011) | |
Postal code : | 11-440 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | |
License plate : | NKE | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Pleśno - Pleśnik → Tolniki Małe | |
Kępa Tolnicka → Tolniki Małe | ||
Rail route : | no rail connection | |
Next international airport : | Danzig |
Tolniki Małe ( German Tollnigk ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Reszel ( urban and rural community Rößel ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ). The village forms a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), to which no other localities belong.
Geographical location
The village is located in northern Poland, about 30 kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . Reszel is about five kilometers southeast of Tolniki Małe, and the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ) 19 kilometers east.
history
Today's Tolniki Małe was founded in 1338 under Kulm law : on June 19, 1338, the Cathedral Chapter of Warmia and Vogt Heinrich von Luter awarded the Prussian Tulnig 40 hooves. In the 18th century the place was called Tolnig , later the name was changed to Tollnigk . At the end of the 18th century there were 32 residential buildings here, in 1820 there were 31 houses with 257 inhabitants.
When the Molditten District ( Polish : Moldyty ) was founded in 1874 , Tollnigk was incorporated. It existed until 1945 and was part of the circle Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1933 there were 287 in May 1939 270 inhabitants in Tollnigk.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Tollnigk, 220 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.
In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Tollnigk became part of Poland as "Tolniki Małe" . 1955 to 1972 the village was part of the Gromada Reszel, since 1973 it has been a Schulzenamt in the city and rural community of Reszel. In 2011 there were 71 inhabitants here
church
Until 1945 Tollnigk was parish in the Protestant Church Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church Rößel in the then diocese of Ermland .
Today Tolniki Małe also belongs to the Catholic parish in Reszel , now part of the Archdiocese of Warmia . On the evangelical side, the inhabitants of Tolniki Małes orientate themselves towards the church in Warpuny (Warpuhnen) , which is subordinate to the parish in Sorkwity (Sorquitten) .
Economy and Infrastructure
Tolniki Małe village is not on any major road. Voivodship road 592 can be reached via secondary roads in the north and Voivodship road 594 in the south .
The place does not have its own rail connection.
The nearest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 95 kilometers northwest on Russian territory, but outside the European Union. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 175 kilometers to the west .
Personalities
- Johannes Lindenblatt (born June 23, 1882 in Tollnigk), German Catholic pastor, is considered a martyr († 1945 in Rastenburg)
literature
- Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 236 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).
Footnotes
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1292
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Tollnigk
- ↑ a b Tollnigk (Rößel district) at GenWiki
- ↑ a b Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 236
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Molditten District
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rössel district (Polish Reszel). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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. 110
- ↑ Wieś Tolniki Małe w liczbach .
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490