Jurkiszki

Jurkiszki
	Jurkiszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 19 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '39 "  N , 22 ° 22' 2"  E
Residents :	120 (2010)
Postal code :	19-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Provincial road 651 : Gołdap ↔ Dubeninki - Sejny
	Szyliny ( Rominter Heide ) → Jurkiszki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Jurkiszki ( German  Jörkischken , 1938 to 1945 Jarkental ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the powiat Gołdapski ( Gołdap district ).

Geographical location

Jurkiszki is located on the southwestern edge of the Rominter Heide ( Puszcza Romincka ), four kilometers south of the state border between Poland and Russia . The Jarka (Jarke) , as the upper reaches of the Gołdapa River is called here, flows through the village , before it flows into the nearby Gołdap (Lake Goldap) .

history

The small place, which consisted of the village and a forestry department before 1945 , was founded as Gerkyscken before 1539 and was called Gerkischken (1540), Gerkischkehmen (before 1542), Jorckischcken (before 1753) and Jörckischken (after 1780) in the following years .

From 1874 to 1945, the site was in the District Gehlweiden integrated, the for loop Goldap in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 315 residents registered in Jörklischken. Their number rose to 327 by 1933 and totaled 335 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Jörkischken was given the name "Jarkental" as part of the National Socialist renaming campaign - in relation to its location on the river Jarke .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with southern East Prussia and has since been called "Jurkiszki". It belongs to the group of Gmina Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski and belonged to the Suwałki Voivodeship before 1998 and to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since then .

Religions

Before 1945, the majority of the population of Jörkischken was of the Protestant denomination and was parish in the parish of the old church in Goldap . Thus it belonged to the church district Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholics also had their parish church in Goldap, which belonged to the Diocese of Warmia .

Even today, the ecclesiastical connection of the now mostly Catholic population of Jurkiszki to Gołdap , now in the Gołdap deanery of the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members still belong to the parish in Gołdap, which is now a branch parish of the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Jurkiszki is conveniently located on the voivodship road DW 651 , which connects the two voivodeships of Warmia-Masuria and Podlaskie . It is only four kilometers to the district town of Gołdap . A side road connects the small village of Szyliny (Schillinnen) and the Rominter Heide with Jurkiszki.

The next train station was Botkuny (Buttkuhnen , 1938 to 1945 Bodenhausen) , a small town that was on two railway lines. The Goldap – Szittkehmen line, also known as the “Kaiserbahn”, was in operation until 1945 , and it wasn't until 1993 that the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck - Insterburg) line ceased operations. Multiple "resuscitation attempts" failed. For Jurkiszki there is no longer a train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Jarkental
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gehlweiden district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
4. ^ 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). 
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479