Wolisko (Kruklanki)

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Wolisko
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Wolisko (Poland)
Wolisko
Wolisko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Kruklanki
Geographic location : 54 ° 6 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '55 "  N , 22 ° 5' 28"  E
Residents : 17 (2010)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Jurkowo / Lipowo / Orłowo ↔ Puszcza Borecka - Lisy - Banie Mazurskie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wolisko ( German  Walisko , 1938 to 1945 Waldsee ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Wolisko on the Jezioro Wolisko ( German  forest lake ) is located in the south of the Borkener Forst (also: Borker Heide, Polish Puszcza Borecka ) in the north-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . The former district town of Angerburg (Polish: Węgorzewo) is 26 kilometers to the northwest, while today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) is 22 kilometers to the south-west.

history

Until 1945 it was at Walisko resp. Waldsee (after 1785 Wallischko , after 1818 Walischko ) around a forestry . In 1785 the small town consisted of a royal sub-forester's apartment with two fireplaces, in 1818 it was a sub-forester's establishment with three fireplaces and eleven residents, then already within the manor district of Borken , Forst, ( Polish: Borki ) in the administrative district of the same name . He belonged to the circle Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . On September 30, 1929 Walisko was incorporated into Jorkowen (1938 to 1945 Jorken, Polish Jurkowo) and was thus part of the Regulowken district (Regułówka in Polish), from 1931 " Borkenwalde district " (until 1930 Mosdzehnen, Polish Możdżany). In 1905 there were eight residents in Walisko.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) in 1938, Walisko was renamed “Waldsee” for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names and came to Poland in 1945 as a result of war with all of southern East Prussia . Since then it bears the Polish name form "Wolisko", with its current 17 inhabitants belongs to the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Jurkowo (Jorkowen , 1938 to 1945 Jorken) within the rural community Kruklanki (Kruglanken) in the powiat Giżycki (district of Lötzen ), before 1998 the voivodeship Suwałki , since then assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Walisko resp. Waldsee parish in the Protestant Church Orlowen ( Polish Orłowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish Giżycko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wolisko belongs to the Catholic parish Orłowo in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Protestant parish in Wydminy (Widminnen) , a subsidiary of the Giżycko parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wolisko is located on a partly very impassable overland road connection, which leads north across the Borkener Forest to Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) . There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Waldsee
  2. ↑ a b c Walisko
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Borken district
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Regulowken / Borkenwalde district
  5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492