Kowalki (Gołdap)

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Kowalki (Poland)
Kowalki
Kowalki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 12 '  N , 22 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '7 "  N , 22 ° 16' 14"  E
Residents : 113 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Grabowo / ext. 650 ↔ Pogorzel / DK 65
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Kowalki ( German  Kowalken , 1938 to 1945 Beierswalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district.

Geographical location

Kowalki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers south of the district town of Gołdap.

history

The small village with a later estate, which was called Konopken before 1734 , Kowalcken after 1785 and Kowalken until 1938 , was founded before 1566.

From 1874 to 1945 the place belonged to the district of Altenbude (Polish: Siedlisko) in the district of Goldap in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Kowalken had a total of 156 inhabitants in 1910. On September 30, 1928 parts of the village were spun off: the Nossuten estate (Polish: Nasuty) came to Friedrichswalde (Polish: Cicholaski, no longer existent), the Gustavshöhe, Kowalken and Kreiswald estates were moved to Glasau (Głażejewo, also no longer existed) incorporated.

The population rose to 308 by 1933 and was 275 in 1939.

In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign , Kowalken was given the name "Beierwalde" on June 3, 1938, which was officially confirmed on July 16, 1938.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Kowalki". Today it is part of the Gołdap urban and rural community in the Gołdapski powiat , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

The predominantly Protestant population of Kowalkens resp. Beierswaldes was parish in the parish of the church of Grabowen (1938 to 1945: Arnswald, Polish: Grabowo) in the parish of Goldap within the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholic church members were oriented towards Goldap , at that time in the Diocese of Warmia .

Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population , the majority of Catholics settled in Kowalki after 1945, for whom a new parish was established in Grabowo , which belonged to the Gołdap deanery in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Gołdap, a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kowalki is on a busy street, the Grabowo (Grabowen , 1938-1945 Arnswald) at the Polish provincial road DW 650 (former German National Highway 136 ) via the Seesker height (Polish: Wzgórza Szeskie) with Pogorzel (Pogorzellen , 1906-1945 Hegelings) of the state road DK 65 (former Reichsstrasse 132 ) connects.

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): Beierswalde
  3. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Altenbude district
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, 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