Wilkowo Wielkie

Wilkowo Wielkie
	Wilkowo Wielkie
	Wilkowo Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Barciany
Geographic location :	54 ° 12 ' N , 21 ° 15' E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '28 " N , 21 ° 14' 57" E
Residents :
Postal code :	11-410 Drogosze
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 590 : Barciany ↔ Korsze - Reszel - Biskupiec
	Winda / ext. 591 - Kąpławki → Wilkowo Wielkie
Rail route :	Poznan – Olsztyn – Korsze; and Białystok – Ełk – Korsze ; Railway station: Korsze (11 km)
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Wilkowo Wielkie ( German Groß Wolfsdorf ) is the abolished name of a village that existed until 1988 and has now merged into the settlement Drogosze ( German Dönhofstädt ). The local office is located in the rural community of Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The village is located in the historical region of East Prussia , about seven kilometers west of Barciany ( Barten ), 17 kilometers northwest of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and 68 kilometers northeast of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).

history

The village of Groß Wolfsdorf was founded in 1361. Its name is derived from the name Wolffersdorff of an old Saxon noble family from the Vogtland . She had received the land from the Teutonic Order at the beginning of the 14th century . After her, the von Rautter family resided at Gut Groß Wolfsdorf.

On April 30, 1874 Great Wolf village was with seven other municipalities or agricultural estates in the newly built office district Dönhofstädt in county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia incorporated. In 1910 Groß Wolfsdorf had 132 inhabitants.

In 1925, parts of the Dönhofstädt manor district and the rural community of Paaris were recruited to Groß Wolfsdorf. On September 30, 1928, Groß Wolfsdorf finally gave up its independence and merged with the estate districts of Dönhofstädt (excluding Dönhofsstädter Wald), Karschau (only Karschauer Wald and Ackerexklave) and Glittehnen ( forest enclave ) to form the new rural community of Dönhofstädt (Drogosze).

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . In the summer of 1945, Groß Wolfsdorf was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, along with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia . The Polish place name Wilkowo Wielkie was introduced for Groß Wolfsdorf . Unless the villagers had fled, they were subsequently driven out of Groß Wolfsdorf and replaced by immigrating Poles .

Wilkowo Wielkie belonged to the Olsztyn Voivodeship when it was ordered by ministerial decree on December 22, 1988 to delete the name "Wilkowo Wielkie" from the village list and to assign the place to the settlement Drogosze .

traffic

The village can be reached via Voivodship Road 590 , which leads from Barciany (Barten) via Korsze (Korschen) and Reszel (Rößel) to Biskupiec (Bishop's Castle) . In Wilkowo Wielkie a side road ends from the direction of Winda (Wenden) , and also a short road connection from Drogosze (Dönhoffstädt) .

The nearest train station is Korsze ( Korschen ) on the railway line from Poznan to Korsze , which continued to the town of Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast until 2000 and had the nearest train station in Drogosze.

church

Evangelical village church Groß Wolfsdorf, now Catholic parish church Drogosze

Groß Wolfsdorf was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. Since the Reformation from 1543 to 1618 it belonged to Paaris as a subsidiary community . Then Groß Wolfsdorf was a parish in the church district of Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 , from 1875 connected with Dönhofstädt ( Drogosze in Polish ) under a rectory, which had its seat in Dönhofstädt (previously reformed church ).

Mostly Catholic residents have lived in Wilkowo Wielkie, which is now part of Drogosze, since 1945 . It now belongs to the parish Drogosze (Dönhofstädt) in the deanery Reszel (Rößel) in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here are parish in the parish of Barciany (Barten) , which is a branch parish of the Johanneskirche in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities

Erhard Roß (born December 20, 1877 in Groß Wolfsdorf), German historian and high school teacher in Königsberg i. Pr. († 1945)

literature

Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 283-284.

Individual evidence

[1] Groß Wolfsdorf / Dönhofstädt in the East Prussia portal

[2] Rolf Jehke: District Dönhofstädt

[3] Uli Schubert: Community directory, Rastenburg district

[4] Monitor Polski , 1988, No. 35, poz. 323