Wronka (Giżycko)

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Wronka (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Giżycko
Geographic location : 54 ° 1 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '55 "  N , 21 ° 41' 12"  E
Residents : 110 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11-500
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Wilkasy / DK 59 and ext. 643 → Wronka
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wronka ( German  Klein Wronnen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinwarnau ) 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

Wronka is located on the southern shore of Lake Taita ( Jezioro Tajty in Polish ) in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is six kilometers to the northeast.

history

Klein Wronnen was named in 1785 as a village with 24 fire places and in 1818 with 22 fire places for 164 souls. In 1874 the village was in the newly formed District Will cash ( polish Wilkasy ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Wolfsee" renamed - existed until 1945 and the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945 government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to.

In 1910 there were 231 residents registered in Klein Wronnen. The number rose to 262 by 1933 and totaled 272 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Klein Wronnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Klein Wronnen, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Klein Wronnen was renamed “Kleinwarnau” for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names.

Together with all of southern East Prussia , the village came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war and received the Polish form of the name “Wronka”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a place within the Gmina Giżycko (rural municipality Lötzen ) in the powiat Giżycki (district Lötzen ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Klein Wronnen resp. Before 1945 Kleinwarnau 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 . This connection to the district town of Giżycko still exists today.

school

In Klein Wronnen (Kleinwarnau) there was an elementary school in which in 1945 one-class classes were given.

traffic

Wronka can be reached via a side road that branches off from Wilkasy (Willkassen , 1938 to 1945 Wolfsee) from the Polish state road 59 (formerly German Reichsstraße 140 ) and the voivodship road 643 . There is no train connection.

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. 1554
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kleinwarnau.
  4. ↑ a b c Small Wronnen.
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Willkassen / Wolfsee.
  6. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Lötzen district.
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 80
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen, 1968, p. 492.