Gmina Wałcz
The Gmina Wałcz (municipality German crown) is a rural municipality ( gmina wiejska ) in the southeastern Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship, on the border with Greater Poland Voivodeship. Headquarters of the municipality is the city Wałcz ( German crown), not belonging to the community itself. In a community area of 575.09 km ² land Wałcz community is the largest community in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The rural municipality has 12,686 inhabitants Wałcz ( June 30, 2013).
Until 1998 it was the Pila Voivodeship belongs.
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
- 4.3 Notes and references
Geography
The Gmina Wałcz consists of numerous lakes areas of Pojezierze Walęcki ( German Kroner Lake District ) and is crossed by many large and small rivers, including Dobrzyca ( Doberitz ) Piława ( Pilow ) Piławka ( Pilow flow ), Świerczyniec ( Fuhlbeck ).
The municipality is located in the northeast of the powiat Walęcki, which is itself in the northeast of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Neighboring municipalities are:
- In the West Pomeranian Voivodeship: the city Wałcz and the urban and rural communities Gmina Człopa ( Schloppe ), Gmina Mirosławiec ( Mirosławiec ) and Gmina Tuczno ( Tütz ), all in the powiat Walęcki,
- Czaplinek ( Tempelburg ) and Wierzchowo ( Virchow ) in the powiat Drawski ( Pomerania ),
- Trzcianka ( Schönlanke ) in the powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki ( circle Czarnikau - Schönlanke )
- Szydłowo (Great Wittenberg) in the powiat Pilski ( Schneidemühl )
- Jastrowie ( Jastrow ) in the powiat Zlotowski ( Flatow ).
Community structure
The Gmina Wałcz is divided into 31 Soltysships with a total of 41 villages. The city itself is not part of the rural community, only houses their headquarters.
- Districts:
- Chude ( Rosenthal)
- Chwiram ( Quiram )
- Czechyń ( Zechendorf )
- Dębołęka ( dam Lang)
- Dobino ( Breitenstein )
- Dzikowo ( Dyck )
- Golce ( Neugolz )
- Gostomia ( Arnsfelde )
- Górnica ( Hohenstein )
- Karsibór ( Keßburg )
- Klębowiec ( Klaus village)
- Kłosowo ( Hansfelde )
- Kolno ( Eckart mountains )
- Łąki (previously belonging to Arnsfelde )
- Laski Wałeckie ( (Alt ) Latzig )
- Lubno ( Lubin )
- Ługi Wałeckie (Karlsruhe)
- Nakielno (small Nakel )
- Ostrowiec ( Sagemühl )
- Prusinowo Wałeckie ( Prussia village)
- Przybkowo ( Philippshof )
- Różewo ( Rosenfelde )
- Rudki ( Hoffstädt )
- Rutwice ( Harm Sindelsdorf )
- Strączno ( Stranzberg )
- Szwecja ( Freudenfier )
- Świętosław ( Ludwigshorst )
- Wałcz Drugi
- Wiesiółka ( Wissulke )
- Witankowo ( Wittkow )
- Zdbice ( Stabitz )
- Other places:
- Boguszyn ( Sophienau )
- Brzezinki
- Bukowa Góra (Buchholz )
- Chrąstowo ( Wilhelmshorst )
- Czapla ( Neumühl )
- Czepiec ( Marquard Thal )
- Dobrogoszcz ( Augustenburg )
- Dobrzyca ( Döberitzfelde )
- Dobrzyca Leśna ( Borken village)
- Glinki
- Głowaczewo ( Klawittersdorf )
- Iłowiec ( Haugsdorf )
- Jarogniewie ( Johannistal )
- Jeziorko (Georg Thal )
- Kołatnik ( Schloßmühl )
- Kłosy ( ( farm workers ) Wolfshof )
- Lipie ( Althof )
- Morzyca ( Moritzhof )
- Nagórze ( Ludwigsthal )
- Nowa Szwecja (Good Neufriedenfier )
- Olszynka (Else field)
- Omulno ( Vorwerk Lassere )
- Papowo ( Paulshof )
- Piława ( Pilowbrück )
- Pluskota ( Stadtmühl )
- Popowo ( Paulsruh )
- Prusinówko ( New Prussia village)
- Rudnica ( Klausdorfer Hammer)
- Sitowo ( Birkenfelde )
- Smoląg ( Teerofen )
- Sosnówka
- Wałcz Pierwszy
- Witankowo - Folwark ( Wittkow )
Transport links
Road
The rural community Wałcz located near the crossing of two national and three provincial roads:
- Country road 10: Lubieszyn ( New Left ) / Germany - Płońsk ( Plöhnen ) ( former German Reich road 104 from Lübeck to Schneidemühl )
- Country road 22: Kostrzyn nad Odra ( Kuestrin ) / Germany - Grzechotki / Russia ( former National Highway 1 of Aachen Berlin - Königsberg ( Prussia ) to Eydtkuhnen )
- Voivodeship 163: Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg) - Wałcz ( former National Highway 124 for the same route )
- Voivodeship 178: Wałcz - Oborniki ( Obornik )
- Voivodeship 179: Pila ( Pila ) - Rusinowo ( Ruschendorf ).
Rail transport
By 1945, met in German crown four railway lines, one of which is today by the Polish State Railways (PKP ) is still served:
- Line 403: Pila - Ulikowo ( Schneidemühl - Wulkow )
The line 416 Wałcz - Wierzchowo ( German crown - Virchow ) was terminated in 1992.
No longer exist, the railway lines from German crown after Flatow (now Polish: Złotów ) and of German crown over Schloppe ( Człopa ) to cross ( Krzyż Wielkopolski ).