Wilamówko (Sorkwity)

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Wilamówko
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Wilamówko (Poland)
Wilamówko
Wilamówko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Sorkwity
Geographic location : 53 ° 49 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '39 "  N , 21 ° 6' 57"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-731 Maradki
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Maradki → Wilamówko
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wilamówko is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to Maradki ( German  Maradtken ) within the rural community Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Wilamówko is located northeast of the Pierwoy Lake ( Jezioro Pierwój in Polish ) in the middle of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ).  

There is no evidence of the history of the small town, nor is there any reference to a possible German name in the period before 1945.

Wilamówko is a place in the network of the rural community Sorkwity and belongs to the village of Maradki (Maradtken) , in whose Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) it is included next to Głodowo (Glodowen , 1938 to 1945 Hermannsruh) and Maradzki Chojniak (Maradtkenwalde) , until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Ecclesiastically, Wilamówko belongs to Sorkwity , both to the Protestant parish - assigned to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland - and to the local Catholic parish - in the Archdiocese of Warmia within the Polish Catholic Church .

Wilamówko can be reached from Maradki by land. There is no rail connection.

References and comments

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 763
  2. The frequently put forward equation of Wilamówko with the former place (New) Willamowen cannot be proven, because Willamowen was about four kilometers further east on the south bank of Lake Lampasch , see Willamowen at GenWiki .