Wopławki

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Wopławki
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Wopławki (Poland)
Wopławki
Wopławki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Kętrzyn
Geographic location : 54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '22 "  N , 21 ° 24' 41"  E
Height : 112 m npm
Residents : 750 (2007)
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Wopławki– Czerniki
Next international airport : Danzig
Kaliningrad



Wopławki (German Woplauken or Woplaucken ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Kętrzyn (rural municipality Rastenburg ) in the powiat Kętrzyński .

history

Shield for the memorial stone for the battle of 1311

In today's Wopławki, a battle between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Order took place in 1311 . Here the troops of the order under Heinrich von Plötzke (or von Ploczk ) defeated the army of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis . To the north of Wopławki there is a memorial stone to this battle in a small wood in the middle of a field. After the battle a castle was built which was the seat of a keeper from 1387 to 1389 . The originally Prussian settlement received Kulmer law at the end of the 14th century . An area of ​​51 hooves belongs to the village  . In 1480 the associated area had grown to 60 hooves and the place received Magdeburg law . In 1745 or 1825 the von Schmidtseck family became owners of the property with an area of ​​1400  hectares , 340 hectares of which was forest. In the second half of the 17th century or in the 18th century, a manor house was built which burned down in 1806 or 1808 and was rebuilt between 1870 and 1880. In January 1945, at the end of the Second World War , just a few hours before the arrival of the Red Army , a group of refugees set in motion which was caught up by the Soviet troops shortly afterwards. Some German residents, including the landlady, managed to escape across the Fresh Lagoon . As a result of the war, Woplauken became part of the People's Republic of Poland as Wopławki . In 1970 the village had a 60-seat cinema and a library point. In 1973 the village became part of the Schulzenamt ( sołectwo ) Czerniki in the municipality of Kętrzyn. Today it is an independent Schulzenamt without any other localities.

Surname

The first name mentioned was Wopelanken . This name probably dates back to the pruzzische word Wope back which is a name and the word for field is.

Population development

At the end of the 18th century there were 30 residential buildings in the village as well as a mill. In 1817 24 houses were counted. The following is a graphic representation of the population development.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wopławki

The village of Wopławki is not on any major road. A side road leads to Voivodship Road 591 ( droga wojewódzka 591 ) which runs about one kilometer west of the village. Czerniki , located about two kilometers to the east, can also be reached via this .

The place does not have its own rail connection. The nearest train station is two kilometers south in Kętrzyn , where there are direct connections to Olsztyn and Poznan . The village was connected to the network of the Rastenburg small railways .

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 100 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 195 kilometers to the west .

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 240-241 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Wopławki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ gov.genealogy.net, Woplaucken, Wopławki , accessed January 10, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g ostpreussen.net, Woplawki - Woplauken , November 18, 2004
  3. ↑ a b c Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 240
  4. ↑ a b Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 241
  5. ^ Website of the Kętrzyn Municipality, Miejscowości gminne , April 5, 2006
  6. ↑ For 1817, 1939, 1970: Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi in Kętrzyn: Z dziejów miasta i okolic , Olsztyn 1978, p. 241
    For 1933: Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastenburg district (Polish. Ketrzyn). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). For 1905: Community encyclopedia Kingdom of Prussia I, Book I East Prussia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905, ISBN 3-931577-26-0 , here to genealogy.net For 2007 gov.genealogy.net, Woplaucken, Wopławki , retrieved on January 10, 2010