Gorczyce (Prostki)

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Gorczyce
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Gorczyce (Poland)
Gorczyce
Gorczyce
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Prostki
Geographic location : 53 ° 40 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 '4 "  N , 22 ° 22' 21"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-335
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : 1680N: Prostki / DK 65 - Sokółki ↔ Wojtele - Skarżyn - Kożuchy Małe / DK 58
Sokółki / 1680N– Długochorzele → Gorczyce
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Gorczyce ( German  Gorczitzen , 1928 to 1945 Deumenrode ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Gorczyce is located south of the Langseer See (until 1897 Dlugochoreller See , in Polish Jezioro Długie Chorzelskie ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Up to the city of Elk (Lyck) is 18 kilometers to the north.

history

The village called Gramatzken at the time was founded in 1484 and consisted of several large and small farms. On May 27, 1874, Gorczytzen became an official village and thus gave its name to a new administrative district , which, however, a few years later was renamed "Amtsgebiet Borken " (Polish: Borki ). It belonged to 1945 the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 the Gorczitzen Manor had 143 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gorczytzen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Gorczytzen, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On October 16, 1928, the village was renamed "Deumenrode" in defense of the foreign-sounding place name. The number of residents was 205 in 1933 and dropped to 186 by 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Gorczyce”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the community of Prostki (Prostken) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Gorczitzen District

For a few years after 1874 Gorczitzen was an official village. Until it was renamed “Amtsgebiet Borken ”, the administrative district included eleven villages:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name
Bark Borki
Dlugochorelles (from 1897 :)
Langsee		 Długochorzele
Blink Glinki
Gorczitzen (from 1928 :)
Deumenrode		 Gorczyce
Kobylinnen Kobilinnen Kobylinek
Miechowen Niederhorst Miechowo
Mylussen Milussen Myłusze
Popowen Wittingen (East Pr.) Popowo
Sokolken Stahnken Sokółki
Soltmahnen Sołtmany

Religions

Until 1945 Gorczitzen was parish in the Protestant Church Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Gorczyce belongs to the Catholic parish in Prostki (Prostken) , which looks after a branch church in the nearby Sokółki (Sokolken , 1938 to 1945 Stahnken ) . It belongs to the diocese of Ełk in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Gorczyce is on the side road 1680N, which connects the two state roads DK 65 and DK 58 and thus the two communities Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) and Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Piski powiat ( Johannisburg district ) connects with each other. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 321
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Deumenrode
  3. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Gorczitzen / Borken district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  5. ↑ 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. 83
  6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bip.warmia.mazury.pl
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  9. ↑ Gorczytzen