Golubka

Golubka
	Golubka
	Golubka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Kalinowo
Geographic location :	53 ° 52 ' N , 22 ° 32' E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '39 " N , 22 ° 32' 11" E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-311
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - Ełk ↔ Kalinowo - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
	Szczudły - Golubie → Golubka
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Golubka ( German Gollupken , 1938-1945 Lübeckfelde ) is a village in the northeastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), belonging to the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen ).

Geographical location

The village is located about eight kilometers west of the village of Kalinowo on state road 16 from Ełk via Wysokie (Wyssocken , 1938 to 1945 Waltershöhe) to Kalinowo. The district town of Ełk is twelve kilometers further south-west.

history

The place Gollubken was founded in 1505. The foundation was based on internal migration from the Lyck order castle, the establishment of a so-called ploughman's village, also called Oratzen , which were largely under the king's control and free of privileges and also had no Schulzen. The name of the place is derived from the Polish word for pigeon . There is a reference to the neighboring Gollubia ( Golubie in Polish ), first mentioned in a document in 1440 , the ancestral and family seat of the Rogalla von Rogale family (or: Rogala Rogalski), from 1740 Rogalla von Bieberstein was. In the beginning the place was called Monethen . A windmill was noted in the village very early on .

In 1656 the region around Kallinowen and with it Gollubken was largely destroyed by the invasion of the Tatars, allied with Poland .

In 1740 Gollubken got its own school, which had 22 students and a teacher when it was set up. In 1771 a Daniel Michalczyk was mentioned in the village as the owner of over 1½ hooves .

Around 1785 the spelling of the place changed from Gollubken to Gollupken.

On 27 May 1874 an was in the course of Prussian municipal reform a new one District formed Gollupken which - existed until 1945 and - on 15 November 1938 in "District Lübeck field" renamed county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On December 1, 1910, Gollupken had 346 residents.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gollupken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Gollupken, 240 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

In 1933 there were 378 inhabitants in Gollupken.

Gollupken was renamed on July 16, 1938 in the course of the massive Germanization of Masurian place names of Baltic or Slavic origin in "Lübeckfelde".

In 1939 Lübeckfelde (Gollupken) only had 348 inhabitants.

The last head of office in Lübeckfelde from 1938 to 1945 was Fritz Willutzki (NSDAP), a former member of the Lyck district council.

After the Second World War 1945 to fell the German Reich ( East Prussia ), administrative region Olsztyn , County Elk belonging Lübeck field in Poland. The resident German population, as far as they had not fled, was largely expelled after 1945 and replaced by new citizens from other parts of Poland in addition to the traditional Masurian minority. The place was renamed "Golubka".

The first mayor in Golubka after 1945 was Eugeniusz Makarewicz. A Protestant cemetery is still partially preserved from German times.

From 1975 to 1998, Golubka belonged to what was then the Suwałki Voivodeship , then joined the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999 . Today Golubka is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and smot is a village in the Gmina Kalinowo association.

As of 2006, there are now 1200 inhabitants in Golubka.

Gollupken / Lübeckfelde district (1874–1945)

The Gollupken district originally consisted of nine villages, in the end there were seven due to structural changes:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Gollubia A	Gollen	Golubie	In 1928 transferred to the rural community of Gollubia
Gollubia B	Gollen	Golubie	In 1928 transferred to the rural community of Gollubia
Gollupken	Lübeckfelde	Golupka
Great Skomentnen	Skomanten	Skomętno Wielkie	from 1893: "Skomentnen"
Klein Skomentnen	Skomanten		from 1893: "Skomentnen"
Mikolaiken	Thomken	Mikołajki
Saborowen	Reichenwalde (East Pr.)	Zaborowo
Szczudlen	(from 1936 :) Georgsfelde	Szczudły
Wyssocken	Waltershöhe	Wysokia

On January 1, 1945, the Lübeckfelde district consisted of the following places: Georgsfelde, Gollen, Lübeckfelde, Reichenwalde, Skomanten, Thomken and Waltershöhe.