Wilkus
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Węgorzewo | ||
| Gmina : | Pozezdrze | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 8 ' N , 21 ° 56' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NWE | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Pozezdrze / DK 63 ↔ Jakunówko - Grodzisko - Banie Mazurskie / ext. 650 | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Wilkus ( German Wilkusmühle ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).
Geographical location
Wilkus is located on the southeast bank of the Wilkussee ( Polish Jezioro Wilkus ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers southeast of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) .
history
The small town founded in 1818 and already called Wilkus at that time was a residential area belonging to a sawmill , which - called Wilkusmühle after 1820 - was a district of the Przerwanken municipality until 1945 (1907 to 1945 Wiesental, Przerwanki in Polish). Przerwanken was the seat of an administrative district , of the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1905 there were 26 residents in Wilkusmühle.
As a result of the war, Wilkusmühle came to Poland in 1945, along with all of southern East Prussia , and since then has borne the Polish form of the name "Wilkus", which was taken up from the founding time. At the same time, the place is incorporated into the Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) Przerwanki , a place in the network of the rural community Pozezdrze in the powiat Węgorzewski .
church
Wilkusmühle belonged on the one hand to the Protestant Church in Kutten ( Polish Kuty ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , on the other hand to the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Anburg (Węgorzewo) in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Wilkus is part of the Catholic parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Kuty in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , on the other hand of the Protestant parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) with the subsidiary community of Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938 to 1945 Großgarten) in the diocese Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Wilkus can be reached via a spur road that branches off the connecting road from Pozezdrze to Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in a northerly direction. There is no train connection.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Wilkusmühle
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Przerwanken / Wiesental district
- ↑ Wilkusmühle
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476