Mniszki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Mniszki ( German nuns mountain ) is a small village in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gmina (Town ) Budry ( Buddern ) and is located in the powiat Węgorzewski ( circle Angerburg ).
Geographical location
Mniszki is located about 18 kilometers north of the county town Węgorzewo ( Angerburg ) directly on the border with Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ) and is only quite impassable road from Ołownik ( Launingken, 1938-1945 sands ) to reach out. The neighboring village three kilometers away was before 1945 both railway station on the route of the now lying on Russian territory cities Gumbinnen (Russian: Gusev ) and Darkehmen ( 1938-1946 Angerapp, Russian: Osjorsk ) up to Angerburg which is no longer in operation today.
History
The formerly "Nuns mountain" village was called before 1945 as well as Old Eszergallen ( 1936-1938 Alt Escher Gallen, 1938-1946 sand forest ), and forest Neusorge Illmen (the latter two, no longer existing places subject today on Russian territory), a district of the municipality Launingken that was 1874-1945 at the same time the eponymous town and administrative seat of the administrative district Launingken. He belonged until 1945 to the district Darkehmen (1939-1945 district Angerapp ) in the district of the Prussian province of East Prussia Gumbinnen.
In 1907, nuns mountain counted 33 inhabitants.
As a result of World War II nuns mountain came to Poland, was renamed in 1945 in Mniszki and changed by the county Darkehmen in the powiat Węgorzewski ( circle Angerburg ), now in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Suwałki Voivodeship ) located. Mniszki belongs to the rural community Budry ( Buddern ) and the mayor's office Olszewo Węgorzewo ( Kanitz ) assigned.
Church
By 1945, the predominantly Protestant population of nuns mountain in the parish was Dombrowken (1938-1945 Eibenburg since 1945: Dąbrówka ) eingepfarrt. It was part of the church district Darkehmen (1938-1946 Angerapp since 1946: Osjorsk ) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
Today almost all Catholic population of Mniszki also belongs to the Church in Dąbrówka which, however, no longer is today the parish, but filial church and the Dean Węgorzewo ( Angerburg ) in the Diocese of Elk ( Lyck ) is the Catholic Church in Poland assumed. The evangelical church members now belong to the Church in Węgorzewo in the parish Giżycko ( Lötzen ) within the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.