Wikrowo (Srokowo)

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Wikrowo (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Srokovo
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 21 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '39 "  N , 21 ° 25' 14"  E
Residents : 108 ()
Postal code : 11-420 Kolkiejmy
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Srokowo / ext. 650 - Jegławki ↔ Barciany / ext. 591
Kolkiejmy → Wikrowo
Jankowice - Ogródki → Wikrowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wikrowo ( German  Wickerau ) is a small town in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Kosakowo (Marienthal) , municipality Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński (district Rastenburg ).

Geographical location

Wikrowo is located in northern Poland, about ten kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in historic East Prussia . Up to the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ) is 17 kilometers in a southerly direction.

history

Today's Wikrowo, Wückerau before 1908 , was probably created in 1403 by Thomas Wickerau . At that time it consisted of two manors , which were laid out according to Kulmer law and belonged to the Prussian Jorge Clugene . In the 18th / 19th A Vorwerk was built in the 19th century . In 1785 Wückerau was mentioned as a noble estate with six fireplaces. and in 1817 eleven residential buildings with 94 inhabitants were counted in the village.

When the Baumgarten district ( Ogródki in Polish ) was established in the East Prussian district of Rastenburg in 1874 , the Wückerau estate was incorporated. In 1905 the place had 83, in 1910 it had 100 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928 Wickerau gave up its independence and merged with the manor districts of Baumgarten and Lenzkeim ( Łęsk in Polish ) to form the new rural community of Baumgarten.

In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Wickerau became part of the People's Republic of Poland as "Wikrowo" . The Vorwerk was destroyed in the course of the war. In 1970 there were 90 inhabitants in the village. In 1973 the village became part of the Kosakowo Schulzenamt in the municipality of Srokowo.

Today Wikrowo is only a "Przysiółek osady Kolkiejmy" (a " hamlet of the Kolkiejmy settlement") within the Gmina Srokowo .

church

Until 1945 Wickerau was parish in the Protestant Church of Barten in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , and also in the Catholic Church of St. Katharina in Rastenburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wikrowo belongs to the Catholic parish Barciany in the current Archdiocese of Warmia and to the Protestant parish in Barciany, a branch parish of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Economy and Infrastructure

The village of Wikrowo is located on a side road coming from Srokowo. This opens a few kilometers to the west in Barciany in the Voivodship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ). In addition, Wikrowo is connected to the neighboring towns of Kolkiejmy (Kollkeim) , Jankowice (Jankenwalde) and Ogródki (Baumgarten) .

The place does not have its own rail connection. The nearest train station is 17 kilometers south in Kętrzyn , where there are direct connections to Korsze (Korschen) and Białystok . Until 1945 Wickerau was a train station itself and was on the Barten – Nordenburg railway line of the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen . The route was not reactivated.

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 90 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport, Gdansk, about 190 kilometers to the west .

References

Web links

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 237-238 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gminny Ośrodek Pomocy Społecznej w Srokowie ( Memento of January 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), website of Gmina Srokowo
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 488
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wickerau
  4. ↑ Wickerau is considered to be the headquarters of the von Saucken family . What is meant is probably the place of the same name in the Prussian Holland district, today Wikrowo (Pasłęk)
  5. ↑ Tomasz Wickerau
  6. ↑ a b Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 238
  7. ↑ a b Historia miejscowości Srokowo ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), website of the municipality of Srokowo.
  8. ↑ a b c Wickerau (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
  9. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Baumgarten district
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473