Nikielkowo

Nikielkowo ( German nickel village ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It belongs to the rural community Barczewo ( Wartenberg ( East Prussia ) ) in a circle Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ).

Geographical location

Nikielkowo is located six kilometers northeast of the city of Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ) on a side road that leads from the voivodship about Łęgainy ( Lengainen ) to Barczewko (Alt Wartenburgstrasse ). The main train station in Olstyn the nearest station is on the line 353 of the Polish State Railways, the Toruń ( Thorn ) into the Russian Schelesnodoroschny ( Gerdauen ) and runs through the urban area of Nikielkowo.

History

The named to 1945 Nickel Gutsort village was founded in 1366 in the following years, the name forms are found as Nicelausdorf (after 1366), Nycclosdorf (before 1785), and Nekielsdorf ( after 1820 ). On May 7, 1874, the village Headquarters and the eponymous site for the newly created administrative district nickel village, which belonged to the district of Olsztyn in Olsztyn Region of the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945. In 1910, 175 people lived in the village Gutsbezirk nickel.

On October 17, 1928, the two Nachbargutsbezirke nickel village and Trautzig closed (today Polish: Track, district of Olsztyn ) to the new rural community Trautzig nickel village together, in 1933 a total of 248 and 1939 already 267 inhabitants were counted.

As a result of the Second World War came nickel village within the southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish name Nikielkowo. The village is now part of Gmina wiejska (Town ) Barczewo ( Wartenberg ) in the powiat Olsztyński the Warmia and Mazury ( Olsztyn Voivodeship 1975-1998 ).

District Nickel village

From 1874 to 1945 consisted of the district of nickel village with initially six, after 1928, five municipalities:

Church

The Protestant inhabitants of nickel village belonged to the parish before 1945 Olsztyn (now Polish: Olsztyn ), for the parish of Warmia, then to 1945 to the church district of Olsztyn in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia was part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1893. The Catholic part of the population was incorporated into the diocese of Warmia.

Since 1945, live only a few Protestant church members in Nikielkowo due to flight and expulsion. They still form part of the parish in Olsztyn, which is now assigned to the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.

For the predominantly Catholic population, a church was built in Nikielkowo, which bears the name Kościół Święty Anny (St. Anne's Church ). It is a branch church of the same parish in Olsztyn - Zielona Górka (Green Mountain ) in the Office of the Dean Olsztyn II Zatorze within the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland.