Wilcza Wólka (Srokowo)

Wilcza Wólka
	Wilcza Wólka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Srokovo
Geographic location :	54 ° 15 '  N , 21 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '8 "  N , 21 ° 28' 2"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-420 Wilczyny
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Jegławki - Stare Jegławki - Jegławki (Osada) ↔ Wilczyny
	Kosakowo → Wilcza Wólka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wilcza Wólka ( German  Friedrichsberg ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Srokowo (rural community Drengfurth ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

Wilcza Wólka is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 20 kilometers northeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ).

history

Originally Friedrichsberg only consisted of a large courtyard. It was founded in 1857. At that time it was mentioned in the official gazette of the royal Prussian government in Königsberg 1857, No. 48 Ordinance No. 258 - on the date of November 23rd: The name Friedrichsberg has been added to the dismantling within the limits of the village of Wolfshagen, Rastenburg district .

Until 1945 Friedrichsberg was a residential place within the community Wolfshagen ( Polish: Wilczyny ) in the East Prussian district of Rastenburg . In 1885 it had 43 inhabitants, and in 1905 28 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, Friedrichsberg came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Wilcza Wólka". Today it is "część wsi Wilczyny" (a "part of the village Wilczyny " (Wolfshagen) ) within the rural community of Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Friedrichsberg was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Drengfurth in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Katharina Rastenburg with the Chapel of Drengfurth in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wilcza Wólka belongs to the Catholic parish Srokowo in the current Archdiocese of Warmia , as well as to the Evangelical Church Srokowo , a branch church of the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wilcza Wólka is located on a side road that leads from Jegławki (Jäglack) to Wilczyny (Wolfshagen) . In addition, a road coming from Kosakowo (Marienthal) ends in Wilcza Wólka.

There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1455
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Friedrichsberg
3. ↑ quoted from Friedrichsberg (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
4. ↑ ^{a b} Friedrichsberg (Rastenburg district) at Gen Wiki
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473