Babki (Gołdap)

Babki
	Babki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '25 "  N , 22 ° 26' 55"  E
Residents :	210 (2006)
Postal code :	19-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Mieruniszki - Garbas Drugi ↔ Dzięgiele ( ext. 65)
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Babki ( German  Babken , 1938–1945 Steinbrück ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gołdap City and Country Commune in the Gołdap District .

Geographical location

Babki is located in the southeast of the historical East Prussian landscape , southeast of Goldap ( Gołdap ), about 135 kilometers east-southeast of Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ). It is four kilometers to the former state border between Germany and Poland .

history

The place Babken, founded around 1565 (after 1785 also Babcken ), was a large manor village before 1945. In 1874 it came to the newly established administrative district Gurnen (Polish: Górne), which existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Goldap in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The Babken manor district , to which the Vorwerk Scheelhof (Polish: Siedlisko, no longer exists) belonged, had 146 inhabitants in 1910. On September 30, 1928, the manor village without Scheelhof was incorporated into the rural community of Szielasken (1936–1938: Schielasken, 1938– 1945 Hallenfelde, now in Polish: Żelazki) incorporated.

Babki was in "Steinbrück" on 3 June 1938 renamed .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . Soon afterwards Babken was placed under Polish administration together with the southern half of East Prussia . The immigration of Polish civilians began. Babken received the Polish place name Babki . As far as the people had not fled, they were in the period that followed sold .

Today the small village is part of the Gołdap urban and rural community in the Gołdapski powiat , which has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1998 .

Religions

Before 1945, the population of Babken was predominantly of Protestant denomination and was parish in the parish of the Gurnen church. It belonged to the church district Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . Since 1945 the few Protestant residents of Babki have belonged to the parish in Gołdap , which in turn is a subsidiary of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

The only few Catholic church members before 1945 were oriented towards the parish church of Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia . Since 1945 there has been a newly established parish in Górne for the majority Catholic population, which is assigned to the Gołdap deanship in Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Babki is a little off the beaten track on a country road that runs from Mieruniszki (Mierunsken , 1938–1945 Merunen) and Garbas Drugi (Garbassen) , both in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , to Dzięgiele (Dzingellen , 1938–1945 Widmannsdorf) not far from the Polish state road 65 ( former German Reichsstrasse 132 ).

There is no longer a rail link since the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) railway with the nearest railway station Pogorzel (until 1906 Pogorzellen , until 1945 Hegelingen , today in Polish Pogorzel ) has ceased to be operated in passenger traffic since 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Steinbrück
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Gurnen district
3. ↑ The Vorwerk Scheelhof came to the rural community Gurnen
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479.