Tolniki Wielkie
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Lidzbark | ||
| Gmina : | Kiwity | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 3 ' N , 20 ° 41' E | ||
| Residents : | 201 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 11-106 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NLI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
| Olsztyn-Mazury | |||
Tolniki Wielkie (German Tollnigk ) is a village and Sołectwo in the rural municipality of Kiwity . It is located in the Powiat Lidzbarski in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northeast Poland .
geography
Geographical location
Tolniki Wielkie lies next to the Stablacker landscape , which belongs to the Baltic ridge . Numerous lakes, rivers, as well as coniferous and mixed forests are characteristic of the area. The distance to Kiwity is eight, to Lidzbark Warmiński twelve and to Olsztyn 47 kilometers.
geology
The landscape has been shaped by the ice sheet and is a postglacial , hilly, wooded ground moraine with many channels , inland lakes and rivers.
history
The pagan Prussians originally lived here . Since 1243 the Diocese of Ermland was part of the Teutonic Order . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Warmia was subordinated to the Crown of Poland as an autonomous duchy of Warmia . With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Province of East Prussia .
Tollnigk belonged to the Heilsberg district from 1818 to 1945 . The rural community of Tollnigk belonged to the Siegfriedswalde district from 1874 to 1945 . After January 20, 1945 Voigtshof was captured by the Red Army . After the end of the war the village became part of the People's Republic of Poland and is called Tolniki Wielkie .
Personalities
- Gerhard Fittkau (1912–2004), Catholic dogmatist and author
Web links
- Tollnigk (Heilsberg district) at gov.genealogy.net
- Tollnigk - local information according to D. Lange
Individual evidence
- ^ Wieś Tolniki Wielkie. polskawliczbach, 2011, accessed January 30, 2017 (Polish).
- ^ Rolf Jehke: District Siegfriedswalde. Retrieved August 20, 2014 .
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