Wronki (Świętajno)

Wronki
	Wronki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '32 "  N , 22 ° 14' 22"  E
Residents :	190 (2009)
Postal code :	19-411
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp - Wydminy ↔ Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
	Orłowo - Jelonek ↔ Połom
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wronki ( German  Wronken , 1938 to 1945 Fronicken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Świętajno ( Schwentainen ) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Wronki is located in the eastern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers west of the district town of Olecko ( Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg ).

history

The village called Fronken at the time was founded before 1600. Forms of name are after 1785 Frönicken and until 1938 Wronken .

On May 27, 1874 Wronken in was District Wessolowen ( Polish Wesołowo ) integrated, the for loop Oletzko (1933-1945 county Treuburg ) in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Wronken had 231 inhabitants in 1910.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Wronken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Wronken, 182 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the Wessolowen manor district ( Wesołowo , then renamed Kleinfronicken from 1938 to 1945 , no longer exists today) was incorporated into Wronken. The population of the rural community rose to 342 by 1933 and was 457 in 1939.

When Wronken was renamed "Fronicken" on June 3 (confirmed on July 16), 1938, the name of the Wessolowen district (the place was now an integrated district) was changed to "Fronicken District".

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name “Wronki”. Today the town seat is a Schulz Office ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus the village in a network of rural community Świętajno ( Schwentainen ) in Powiat Olecki (county Oletzko , 1933-1945 District Treuburg ), before 1998 the Suwalki province , since the Warmia and Mazury belong .

District of Fronicken (1938–1945)

The district of Wessolowen went on September 13, 1938 into the newly named "District of Fronicken". Until 1945 four villages belonged to it:

Surname	Polish name
Friedrichsheide until 1938 Friedrichsheyde	Gajrowskie
Fronicken until 1938 Wronken	Wronki
Grünheide until 1938 Grünheyde	Jelonek
Tannau until 1938 Salleschen	Zalesie

church

Until 1945 Wronken resp. Fronicken in the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg , Polish Olecko ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Wronki belongs to the protestant church Wydminy ( Wydminy ), a filial community of the parish Giżycko ( Giżycko ) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , and the Catholic church Świętajno ( Schwentainen ), one in Wronki branch church maintains and diocese Ełk ( Lyck ) belongs to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Wronki is conveniently located on the DW 655 voivodship road , which connects the Giżycko ( Lötzen district ) and Olecko ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ) regions with the Suwałki region, which is already in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . There is also a secondary road connection to Orłowo ( Orlowen , 1938 to 1945 Adlersdorf ) in the north and Połom ( Polommen , 1938 to 1945 Herzogsmühle ) in the south.

Between 1911 and 1945 Wronken resp. Fronicken railway station on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg ( Polish Kruklanki – Olecko ) railway , which was decommissioned as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1554
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Fronicken
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Wessolowen / Fronicken district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
5. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 67
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484