Godkowo
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Elbląski | ||
| Gmina : | Godkowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 4 ′ N , 19 ° 54 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 260 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 14-407 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 55 | ||
| License plate : | NEB | ||
Godkowo ( German : Göttchendorf ) is a municipality in the powiat Elbląski of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 3037 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
Geographical location
The village is located in the historical region of East Prussia , about 34 kilometers east of Elbing and 51 kilometers northwest of Allenstein .
history
Older forms of the place name are Gotkendorf , Gotkendorff , Gottkendorf , Gotickendorf and Göttchendorff . Until 1804, the farmers of the village of Göttchendorf were obliged to do manual and clamping services at Gut Behlenhof. On February 3, 1807, Napoleon stayed in Gotkendorf .
The parish of the village comprised an area of 1986 acres around 1858 , and there were 36 houses on it.
Until 1945 Göttchendorf belonged to the district of Prussian Holland in the administrative district of Königsberg in the province of East Prussia of the German Empire .
Towards the end of World War II , the region was occupied by the Red Army in January 1945 . In the summer of 1945, the Soviet occupation forces placed the district together with the southern half of East Prussia and all of West Prussia under Polish administration. The Poles introduced the place name Godkowo for Göttchendorf . Unless the German villagers had fled, they were subsequently expelled from Göttchendorf by the local Polish administrative authorities .
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1816 | 122 | in 27 residential buildings |
| 1852 | 213 | |
| 1858 | 229 | including 223 Protestants and 6 Catholics |
| 1885 | 277 | |
| 1910 | 249 | |
| 1933 | 232 | |
| 1939 | 210 |
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Godkowo includes the village itself and 21 other villages with school offices (sołectwa).
Web links
- Schmauch District (Rolf Jehke, 2005)
- GenWiki: Göttchendorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold Krug : History of the state economic legislation in the Prussian state, from the oldest times to the outbreak of war in 1806 . Volume 1, Berlin 1808, p. 465.
- ↑ Ämilian Janitsch : Strange history of the incidents of war between France, Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Sweden on water and on land. Dated 1807. Volume 3, Vienna 1812, p. 141.
- ^ A b Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, according to official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p 117, item 61.
- ↑ JDF Rumpf, HF Rumpf: Complete dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 1: A-H. Berlin 1820, pp. 293-294.
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell, Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 2, Hall 1821, Volume 2: G – Ko. Halle 1822, p. 50, item 1797.
- ^ Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Berlin 1856, p. 189.
- ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/G%C3%B6ttchendorf
- ↑ http://gemeindeververzeichnis.de/gem1900/gem1900.htm?ostpreussen/holland.htm
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. prholland.html # ew33prhlgoett. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).