Wronki Wielkie

Wronki Wielkie
	Wronki Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 15 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '27 "  N , 22 ° 16' 29"  E
Residents :	400 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 650 : Gołdap ↔ Banie Mazurskie - Węgorzewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wronki Wielkie ( German  Groß Wronken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the powiat Gołdapski .

Geographical location

Wronki Wielkie is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers southwest of the district town of Gołdap and on the western slope of the Seesker Höhe (Polish: Wgzórza Szeskie).

history

The small village, founded around 1578 and then called Fronken, was called Groß Wronnen before 1785 and then until 1938 Groß Wronken .

In 1874 the place came to the district of Skötschen (Skocze), which - renamed in 1939 to "district of Grönfleet" - existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Goldap in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Groß Wronken had 185 inhabitants in 1910, 169 in 1933 and 161 in 1939.

After United Wronken in "Winterberg (East Prussia)." June 3, 1938 was renamed the village came in consequence of the war in 1945 with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish place name "Wronki Wielkie". Today the village is part of the Gołdap urban and rural community in the Gołdapski powiat , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The before 1945 the majority Protestant population of Great Wronkens or Winterberg was in the parish of the New Church in Goldap the parish and part of the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . The few Catholics belonged to the parish in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

A predominantly Catholic population has lived in Wronki Wielkie since 1945, whose parish church is that in Gołdap in the Gołdap deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here are part of the parish in Gołdap, a branch of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wronki Wielkie is conveniently located on the Polish voivodship road DW 650 (the former German Reichsstraße 136 ), which connects the district towns of Gołdap (Goldap) and Węgorzewo (Angerburg) . Until 1945 there was a railway connection via the Jeblonsken station (Polish: Jabłońskie) on the Angerburg – Goldap railway line , which was destroyed in 1945 and then completely dismantled.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Winterberg (Ostpr.)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Skötschen / Grönfleet district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479