Berkowo (Wydminy)

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Berkowo
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Berkowo (Poland)
Berkowo
Berkowo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '29 "  N , 22 ° 7' 35"  E
Residents : 100 (2006)
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 656 : ( Giżycko -) Staświny - Wydminy ↔ Grabnik - Ełk
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Berkowo [ bɛrˈkɔvɔ ] ( German  Berghof ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Berkowo is located on the southwest bank of the Jezioro Dobrzyń (1938-1945 Strudelsee , German  Dobbrin Lake ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The hamlet (Polish osada) forms the southeastern tip of the powiat Giżycki , whose district town Giżycko (Lötzen) is 30 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The small Gutsort Berghof was incorporated into the newly established administrative district Neuhoff ( Polish Zelki ) in 1874, which belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905–1945 administrative district of Allenstein ) of the Prussian province of East Prussia . At the same time, Berghof was also assigned to the Neuhoff registry office . The population of the Berghof manor district was 123.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Berghof belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Berghof, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, Berghof lost its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Neuhoff (Zelki). With all of southern East Prussia , Poland became part of the war in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name Berkowo . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a place in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Berghof was parish in the Protestant parish of Neuhoff in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish of Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Berkowo belongs to the protestant church in Wydminy , a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , and the Catholic church Zelki in the diocese Elk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Berkowo is conveniently located on the voivodship road DW 656 , which connects the two district towns of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Ełk (Lyck) . A rail connection no longer exists since operations on the Czerwonka – Ełk (Rothfließ – Lyck) railway with the Skomack Wielki (Skomatzko , 1938–1945 Dippelsee) railway station ceased on September 1, 2009 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 18
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Berghof
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Neuhoff
  4. ↑ a b c Berghof (district of Lötzen)
  5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : Self-determination for East Germany - A documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 79.
  7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.