Kozaki (Gołdap)

Kozaki
	Kozaki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 16 '  N , 22 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '49 "  N , 22 ° 20' 42"  E
Residents :	367 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-500
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 65 : Gołdap ↔ Kowale Oleckie - Bobrowniki
	Gołdap - Janowo → Kozaki
	Wilkasy - Zatyki - Wrotkowo → Kozaki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kozaki [ kɔzaki ] ( German  Cossack , from 1938 to 1945 Rappenhöh is) a place in the Polish Warmia and Mazury , of the urban and rural community Goldap (Goldap) in the district Gołdap belongs.

Geographical location

Kozaki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship at the foot of the Seesker Höhe (Polish: Wzgórza Szeskie), southeast of the city of Gołdap (Goldap) and west of the 268-meter-high Castle Hill (Polish: Zameczna Góra), which is in the middle of a military area (tereny wojskowe ) is located.

history

The village, still called Kosacken after 1785 , consisting of a rural community and manor district, was incorporated into the newly established Gurnen district (Polish: Górne) in 1874, which existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 a total of 250 people lived in Cossacks, 106 of them belonging to the estate and 144 to the village. On September 30, 1928, the Cossack Manor was assigned to the Cossack rural community. Its population was 279 in 1933 and 270 in 1939.

In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign , Kosaken was given the name "Rappenhöh" on June 3, 1938. Seven years later, the place came in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish place name "Kozaki". Today the village is a place with a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) in the network of the city ​​and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski and since 1998 belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The majority Protestant population before 1945 Kosakens was in the parish of Gurnen Church in the church district Goldap within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish. Today Kozaki's evangelical church members belong to the parish in Gołdap , which is a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

If the Catholic church members have belonged to the newly established parish in Górne since 1945, which is incorporated into the Gołdap deanery in the Diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland , before 1945 they were oriented towards the parish church in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

traffic

Kozaki is located on the important Polish state road 65 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 132 ), which connects the Russian-Polish and Polish-Belarusian borders. The district town of Gołdap is only six kilometers away. Two side streets end within Kozakis, coming from Gołdap via Johannisberg or from Wilkasy (Wilkassen , 1938 to 1945 Kleineichicht) via Zatyki (Satticken) and Wrotkowo (Friedrichowen , 1938 to 1945 Friedrichau) .

The rail connection for passenger traffic via the station in Gołdap has not existed since 1993.

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 Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rappenhöh
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gurnen District
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