Galwiecie

Galwiecie also: Galwiecie (osada)
	Galwiecie also: Galwiecie (osada)
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 18 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '27 "  N , 22 ° 25' 24"  E
Residents :	559 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Provincial road 651 : Gołdap ↔ Dubeninki - Sejny
	Czarnowo Wielkie ( Rominter Heide ) → Galwiecie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Galwiecie ( German  Gehlweiden ) and Galwiecie (osada) are localities in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . They belong to the rural community Goldap (Goldap) in the district Gołdap .

Geographical location

The village of Galwiecie and - to the north of its center - Galwiecie (osada) ("settlement") are on the southern edge of the Rominter Heide (Polish: Puszcza Romincka) on Jezioro Ostrówek (Ostrowkener or Waldbuder Lake) and on Jezioro Rakówek (Rakowkener or Stoltznersdorfer See) . The Polish-Russian border runs five kilometers further north.

history

The former Gehlweiden was founded in 1531. In the following years the place was also called Geylwetten (after 1583) and Gailwetzschen (after 1596). On March 18, 1874, Gehlweiden became an official village, giving its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Gehlweiden had 173 inhabitants in 1910; in 1933 - after the neighboring village of Rakowken was incorporated on September 30, 1929 - there were 470 and in 1939 477.

In 1945 Gehlweiden came in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish name Galwiecie . Today the two localities Galwiecie and Galwiecie (osada) exist, the former is a Schulzenamt (Polish: sołectwo), the other a subordinate village in the network of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , from 1975 to 1998 to the Suwałki Voivodeship , then to the Voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria .

Gehlweiden district (1874–1945)

In the time of its 71-year existence, the Gehlweiden district was incorporated:

German name	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Gehlweiden		Galwiecie
Great Jodupp	Holzeck	Czarnowo Wielkie
Jörkischken	Jarkental	Jurkiszki
Means Jodupp	Mittelholzeck	Czarnowo Średnie	1929 incorporated into Jodupp
Rakowken	Stoltznersdorf	Rakowek	1928 incorporated into Gehlweiden

In the beginning five villages belonged to the district, in 1945 there were only three: Gehlweiden, Holzeck and Jarkental.

Religions

The predominantly Protestant population of Gehlweiden was parish in the parish of the church in Goldap before 1945 and thus incorporated into the parish of Goldap within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholics also belonged to their parish church in Goldap - in the Diocese of Warmia .

The majority of the population of Galwiecie is Catholic today and is still oriented towards Gołdap , within the Gołdap deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members belong to the Gołdap parish , which is now a subsidiary parish of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Galwiecie is conveniently located on Voivodship Road 651 , which connects the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie Voivodeships . The district town of Gołdap is only eight kilometers away. From Galwiecie there is an access option to the Rominter Heide .

A railway connection no longer exists since the Goldap – Szittkehmen railway line, also known as the “Kaiserbahn”, with the closest railway station Rakowken, was shut down in 1945 as a result of the war.

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): Gehlweiden
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke: District Gehlweiden
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.