Wierzbianki

Wierzbianki
	Wierzbianki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '45 "  N , 22 ° 14' 1"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Grabowo / ext. 650 - Siedlisko ↔ Czerwony Dwór
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wierzbianki ( German  Wiersbianken , 1938 to 1945 Lichtenhain ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Wierzbianki is located in the northeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and in the northeastern edge of the Borkener Forest (also: Borker Heide, Polish: Puszcza Borecka). It is 18 kilometers to the north to the former district town of Gołdap (Goldap) , while the current district metropolis of Olecko (Marggrabowa , also: Oletzko, 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is 22 kilometers to the south-east.

history

The small place called Wiersbauten before 1774 and then Wiersbianken consisted of a few medium-sized and small courtyards before 1945. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established district of Altenbude (Polish: Siedlisko), which belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Wiersbianken had 50 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Wiersbianken lost its independence when it merged with the rural community of Groß Duneyken and the manor district of Blandau (no longer existent) to form the new rural community of Duneyken (1938 to 1945: Duneiken (Kr. Goldap), Polish: Dunajek) . For political and ideological reasons, Wiersbianken was renamed “Lichtenhain” on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name "Wierzbianki". Today it forms an independent village again within the network of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The population of Wiersbianken resp. Before 1945, Lichtenhains was predominantly of Protestant denomination and parish in the parish of the Church of Grabowen (1938 to 1945: Arnswald, Polish: Grabowo) in the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the Protestant church members Wierzbiankis belong to the parish in Gołdap , a branch parish of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

The Catholic residents were oriented towards Goldap, whose parish belonged to the Diocese of Warmia until 1945 . Today they are incorporated into the newly established parish in Grabowo, which is now part of the Goldap deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Wierzbianki is located on a side road that leads from the Voivodship Road 650 (former German Reichsstraße 136 ) near Grabowo (Grabowen , 1938 to 1945 Arnswalde) in the Borkener Forest to Czerwony Dwór (Rothebude) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Lichtenhain (2005)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Altenbude
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Goldap
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479