Bitkowo (Gołdap)

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Bitkowo (Poland)
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Bitkovo
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 22 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '35 "  N , 22 ° 30' 40"  E
Residents : 8 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Żelazki ↔ Bitkowo - Garbas Drugi
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Bitkowo ( German  Bittkowen , 1938–1945 Bittkau (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district.

Geographical location

Bitkowo is located on the northern eastern edge of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship on the eastern bank of the Jezioro Bitkowskie (Bittkowener See , 1938–1945 Bittkauer See) and less than a kilometer west of the former state border between the German Empire and Poland . The southern local border is also the border between the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and the Podlaskie Voivodeship , with the eponymous village of Bitkowo in the Suwałki district on the Podlachian side .

history

The village, already known as Bittkau before 1785 , was founded in 1562. Together with the district Schlepowen (Polish: Ślepowo, no longer in existence), the village was in the 1874 District Mierunsken integrated, the - 1939 in the district of Merunen renamed - to 1945 and county Oletzko (from 1933 district Treuburg ) in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian Province of East Prussia belonged.

The number of inhabitants was 215 in 1910. It rose to 222 by 1933 and was 202 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16), Bittkowen was renamed Bittkau (Ostpr.) . 1945 occurred in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland . Since then it has had the Polish name Bitkowo and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) in the network of the city ​​and rural community Gołdap in the Powiat Gołdapski . Until 1998 it belonged to the Suwałki Voivodeship , today it is part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945, the population of Bittkowen was almost exclusively of the Protestant denomination. The village was included in the Mierunsken parish of the Mierunsken / Eichhorn church . It had its seat in Mierunsken and was part of the church district Oletzko (from 1933 Treuburg) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . Catholics living here were oriented towards their parish church in Oletzko (1928–1945 Treuburg, Polish Olecko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Bitkowo has had a mainly Catholic population since 1945 , tending towards the newly established parish in Górne (Gurnen) . She is assigned to the deanery Gołdap in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members belong to the parish in Gołdap , a branch parish of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Bitkowo is a little out of the way, but in a scenic and touristic area around the Jezioro Bitkowskie and the Rospuda (Raspuda) lake area . A side road runs through the place, which - when bypassing Lake Bittkowener See - connects Żelazki in Warmia-Masuria with Garbas Drugi in Podlachia and crosses the two villages of the same name (here Bitkowo in Powiat Gołdapski , there Bitkowo in Powiat Suwalski ).

There is no train connection.

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: Bittkau (Ostpr.) (2005)
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Schlepowen (2005)
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Mierunsken / Merunen
  5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ 1938–1945 Merunen, today in Polish Mieruniszki
  8. ↑ until 1916 Sczeczinken, today in Polish Szczecinki
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.