Wilkaski (Giżycko)

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Wilkaski
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Wilkaski (Poland)
Wilkaski
Wilkaski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 0 '  N , 21 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 '57 "  N , 21 ° 42' 52"  E
Residents : 90 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 59 : Giżycko ↔ Ryn - Mrągowo - Rozogi
Rail route : Railway Głomno – Białystok
Railway station: Niegocin
Next international airport : Danzig



Wilkaski ( German  Wolfsee (Gut) ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Giżycko ( rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ).

Geographical location

Wilkaski is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The Wolfsee estate was founded in 1846 and was a village within the municipality of Willkassen until 1945 (1938 to 1945 Wolfsee (village), in Polish Wilkasy ). With the mother church the estate village from 1874 to 1945 was in the District Wilkassen integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Wolfsee" - the circle Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1905 there were 52 residents registered in Gutsdorf Wolfsee.

In 1945, the place was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Wilkaski". Today the small village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a district of the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 the Gutsdorf Wolfsee was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Even today, Wilkaski has an ecclesiastical connection to the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

traffic

Wilkaski is located on the Polish state road DK 59 (formerly German Reichsstraße 140 ), which is important for traffic and connects the two district towns of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Mrągowo (Sensburg) and leads to Rozogi (Friedrichshof) in the Szczytno (Ortelsburg) district . The nearest train station is Niegocin , until 1945 “Boyen” on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1456
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Wolfsee, Gut
  4. ↑ a b c Wolfsee (good)
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Willkassen / Wolfsee
  6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492