Kucze (Kowale Oleckie)

Kucze
	Kucze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 11 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '54 "  N , 22 ° 27' 17"  E
Residents :	40 (2006)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pogorzel / DK 65 - Borkowiny ↔ Lakiele / ext. 652
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Kucze ( German  Kutzen ) is a small village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and a locality within the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Kucze is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, four kilometers west of the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship . It is 17 kilometers to the south to the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

The small village with the previous name Kutzen was founded in 1565.

On May 27, 1874, the place came to the newly established district of Lakellen (1928 to 1945: Schönhofen (Ostpr.), Polish: Lakiele), which - renamed in 1938 to "District of Schönhofen (Ostpr.)" - existed until 1945 and to the district of Oletzko - called " Landkreis Treuburg " from 1933 to 1945 - belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia in the Gumbinnen district .

In 1910 there were 155 inhabitants registered in Kutzen. Their number rose to 180 by 1933 and returned to 155 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kutzen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Kutzen, 158 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Kutzen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Kucze”. Today the village is part of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Kutzen, with its predominantly Protestant population at the time, was part of the parish of the church in Schareyken (1938 to 1945: Schareiken, Polish: Szarejki) and thus belonged to the Oletzko / Treuburg church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The few Catholic church members were then oriented towards Olecko in the Diocese of Warmia .

A predominantly Catholic population has lived in Kucze since 1945. It is now incorporated into the Kowale Oleckie parish, newly created in 1962 , and is part of the Deanery Olecko -Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświęzszej Maryi Panny in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The small number of Protestant church members belong to the parish in Gołdap (Goldap) , a branch parish of Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Kucze is on a side road that leads from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) via Borkowiny (Borkowinnen , 1938 to 1945 Jarken) to Lakiele (Lakellen , 1938 to 1945 Schönhofen (Ostpr.)) And the Polish state road DK 65 ( former German Reichsstraße 132 ) connects with the Voivodship Road DW 652 ( Reichsstraße 127 ).

Until 1945 there was a connection to the Treuburg – Garbassen line of the Treuburg Kleinbahnen via the Drosdowen railway station (1938 to 1945: Drosten, Polish: Drozdowo) , which has been closed and dismantled. Until 1993, the train station in Kowale Oleckie also offered a connection to the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) line , which is no longer in operation.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Kutzen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Lakellen / Schönhofen (Ostpr.)
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
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. 65
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484