Główka (Gołdap)

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Główka
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Główka (Poland)
Główka
Główka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 13 '  N , 22 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '31 "  N , 22 ° 11' 26"  E
Residents : 104 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Voivodship Road 650: Gołdap ↔ Banie Mazurskie - Węgorzewo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Główka ( German  Glowken , 1938–1945 Thomasfelde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district .

Geographical location

Główka is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 13 kilometers southwest of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) . To the south of the village lies the northern border of the extensive Borkener Forest (also Borker Heide , Polish: Puszcza Borecka) with its partially preserved forests .

history

The village was founded as Praßnitza around 1564 and was only later given the name Glowken , which it carried until 1938. From 1874 to 1945 the village was incorporated into the administrative district of Bodschwingken (Polish: Boćwinka), which - renamed the administrative district of Herandstal in 1939 - belonged to the district of Goldap in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The population of Glowkens was 397 in 1910. It rose to 406 by 1933 and was 365 in 1939.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938 Glowken was given the name Thomasfelde as part of the National Socialist renaming campaign . As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 together with southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Główka . The place is today the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) as a place in the network of the city ​​and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , until 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The vast majority of the population of Glowkens was Protestant until 1945 and the place was parish in the parish of the Church of Grabowen (1938–1945 Arnswald, Grabowo in Polish). It belonged to the church district Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholics were oriented towards the parish in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945 the now mostly Catholic residents of Główka have belonged to the newly established parish in Grabowo , which is incorporated into the Gołdap deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members belong to the parish in Gołdap , which is a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Główka is conveniently located on Voivodship Road 650 (former German Reichsstrasse 136 ), which connects the two district towns of Gołdap and Węgorzewo (Angerburg) . A train connection has not existed since 1945. The railway line Angerburg – Goldap with the nearest station Bodschwingken (Polish: Boćwinka) was not put back into operation due to war-related destruction.

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 Location Register East Prussia (2005), Thomasfelde
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Bodschwingken / Herandstal
  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.