Barkowo (Gołdap)

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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 22 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '1 "  N , 22 ° 11' 57"  E
Residents : 44 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Skocze ↔ Łobody
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Barkowo ( German  Barkehmen , 1938-1945 Barkau ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district.

Geographical location

Barkowo is on the left side of the river Goldap (Polish: Gołdapa) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers west of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) .

history

The small town, then called Barckaw , was founded before 1539 and was later called Barskeynen (before 1580), Bareken (before 1596) and Barkehmen (until 1938). In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established Ballupönen district ( Bałupiany in Polish ), which was redirected to Grilskehmen ( Grygieliszki in Polish ) before 1908 and - renamed Grilsen district in 1939 - until 1945 to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged to.

There were 267 inhabitants who lived in Barkehmen in 1910. Their number decreased to 249 by 1933 and was still 247 in 1939.

In order to erase the foreign-sounding place name Barkehmen for political and ideological reasons, the village was renamed Barkau on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938 . As a result of the war, southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 and has been called Barkowo ever since . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and a district of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

Religions

Barkehmen as well as Barkowo were and are ecclesiastically oriented towards Gołdap . Before 1945, the majority Protestant population belonged to the parish of the churches in Goldap in the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , while the Catholics were aligned to the Goldap parish church, then located in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today most of the population of Barkovo is Catholic. The parish church in Gołdap is now assigned to the Gołdap deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church in the district town is now a branch church of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Barkowo is located a little away from the traffic on a small side street that connects Skocze ( Skötschen , 1938–1945 Grönfleet ) with Łobody (Liegetrocken) . There was never a train connection. The village is often visited by sport boaters who have discovered the Goldap as a remarkable canoeing route.

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): Barkau
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Ballupönen / Grilskehmen / Grilsen
  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.