Więcki (Budry)

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Więcki
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Więcki (Poland)
Więcki
Więcki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Węgorzewo
Gmina : Budry
Geographic location : 54 ° 16 '  N , 21 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '37 "  N , 21 ° 50' 5"  E
Height : 98 m npm
Residents :
Postal code : 11-606
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NWE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 650 : Węgorzewo ↔ Budry - Gołdap
Budry - Dowiaty → Więcki
Sobiechy - Pietrele → Więcki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Landscape near Więcki (Wenzken)

Więcki ( German  Wenzken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to the rural community Budry (Buddern) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

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

history

In 1562 the place called Wentzken after 1785, Wensken after 1818 and Wenzken until 1945 was founded. It consisted of a village and a large estate. The latter was awarded in 1616 under Duke Johann Sigismund .

On May 6, 1874 Wenzken office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

The Contag family resided in the manor house from the 19th century to the 1930s . The estate including the Vorwerk covered up to 500 hectares. The two-storey mansion still existing today is a classicist building with distinctive architectural details from the 19th century.

In 1910 Wenzken had a total of 407 inhabitants, 335 of whom lived in the village and 72 in the manor district. On September 30, 1928 the village and the manor district merged to form the new rural community of Wenzken. The population was 557 in 1933 and 509 in 1939.

In 1945 Wenzken came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Wiecki". It is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and belongs to the rural community Budry in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

The manor of the Wenzken estate was fundamentally renovated in the period after 1945 and is now used as a school building , surrounded by the old, species-rich landscape park .

The former Wenzken manor house and today's schoolhouse in Więcki

Wenzken District (1874–1945)

The district of Wenzken initially consisted of three integrated villages, in the end there were two more:

Surname Polish
name		 Remarks
Dowiats Dowiaty
Wenzken (village) Więcki
Wenzken (good) 1928 incorporated into the rural community of
Wenzken

On January 1, 1945 Dowiaten and Wenzken still belonged to the Wenzken district.

Sołectwo Więcki

In the mayor's office Wiecki within the rural community Budry three villages are incorporated:

  • Droglewo (Karlshof)
  • Pietrele (Pietrellen , 1938 to 1945 Treugenfließ)
  • Więcki (Wenzken) .

church

Until 1945, the majority of the residents of Wenzken were Protestant and parish into the Church of Buddern in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Protestant church members today are assigned to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Before 1945, the Catholic church members who belonged to the Church of the Good Shepherd Angerburg were in the minority, today they are the majority. The former Protestant church in Budry serves them as a parish church , which is included in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

sons and daughters of the town

  • Ursula Enseleit (born July 25, 1911 in Wenzken; † August 8, 1997 in Mainz), German sculptor and poet

traffic

Więcki is conveniently located on the Polish Voivodeship Road 650 , the former German Reichsstraße 136 . It is the link between the district towns of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and Gołdap (Goldap) and touches the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district) beyond Węgorzewo . In addition, a side road that comes from Budry via Dowiaty (Dowiaten) and a side road from Sobiechy (Sobiechen , 1938 to 1945 Salpen) ends in Więcki. A railway connection has not existed since the Second World War , since the Angerburg – Goldap railway line was decommissioned and partially dismantled.

Web links

Commons : Więcki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1453
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wenzken
  3. ↑ a b c Więcki - Wenzken
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Wenzken district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The district of Angerburg (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Gimnazjum Więcki
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476