Gałkowo

Gałkowo
	Gałkowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 21 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '37 "  N , 21 ° 28' 16"  E
Residents :	157 (2011)
Postal code :	12-220
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 610 : Piecki / DK 59 ↔ Ukta / ext. 609 - Ruciane-Nida / DK 58
	Wojnowo - Zameczek - Iwanowo → Gałkowo
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Pisz train station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport :	Warsaw
	Danzig

Gałkowo [ ɡau̯ˈkɔvɔ ] ( German Galkowen-Nikolaihorst , 1938–1945 Nickelshorst (village)) is a village in southeastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Piski, belonging to the urban and rural community of Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Lower Sea-Nieden) ( Johannisburg district ).

history

As one of several settlements in Masuria, Gałkowo was founded between 1828 and 1832 by the Philippons , a religious group assigned to the Old Orthodox , and is therefore one of the so-called Philippon villages. Until the late 20th century, Gałkowo remained next to Wojnowo (Eckertsdorf) one of the last settlements in Masuria, in which mainly Old Orthodox continued to live.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Galkowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Galkowen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

From 1874 to 1938 Gałkowo was part of the rural community Galkowen-Nikolaihorst in the German province of East Prussia . Before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the place, which was renamed "Nickelshorst" by the National Socialists on July 16, 1938, had around 300 residents. After the end of the war in 1945, the village came under Polish administration together with the rest of southern East Prussia. It belonged to the Suwałki Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998 and to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Lehndorff family's hunting lodge, which was previously in Sztynort , was rebuilt in Gałkowo . Alexander Potocki, who himself comes from a Polish aristocratic family, had the house, which was partially destroyed in World War II, reconstructed and restored and has been using it as a restaurant and guesthouse since its completion in autumn 2006. Potocki runs this together with his mother, the former dpa correspondent Renate Marsch-Potocka . One room in the former hunting lodge is dedicated to Marion Countess Dönhoff , who visited the place frequently on her travels to the former East Prussia.

church

Until 1945 Galkowen or Nickelshorst was parish in the Evangelical Church of Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Gałkowo belongs to Ukta with regard to both denominations : to the Catholic Exaltation of the Cross , which is now assigned to the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , and to the Evangelical Petrikirche, whose parish is in Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the Diocese of Masuria the Evangelical Augsburg Church is located in Poland .

traffic

Gałkowo is located on the provincial road 610 , which is important for traffic and connects the town of Ruciane-Nida with the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). A side road from Wojnowo (Eckertsdorf) also leads into the village. The nearest train station is Ruciane-Nida on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line. Until 1945 there was also a rail connection via Ukta on the Sensburg – Rudczanny section of the railway line from Königsberg (Prussia) .

Personalities

• Ernst Sagewka (born January 10, 1883 in Nikolaihorst; † August 22, 1959 in Bielefeld), German expressionist painter and graphic artist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 251
2. ^ Nickelshorst (community) at GenWiki
3. ↑ Peter Hauptmann: Russlands Old Believers on books.google.de, p. 254. The information relates to the year 1968. Accessed on October 19, 2011.
4. ↑ 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. 112.
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. East Prussia, Sensburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Galkowo - Galkowen / Nickelshorst on ostpreussen.net. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
7. ↑ Jens Hermsen: Land of a Thousand Lakes: Masuria ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at 33mal-reiselust.de. Travel report. Retrieved October 19, 2011. 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 500.