Kulsze
| Kulsze | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
||
| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Gołdap | ||
| Gmina : | Banie Mazurskie | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 15 ' N , 22 ° 4' E | ||
| Residents : | |||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NGO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Banie Mazurskie / ext. 650 ↔ Ziemiany - Rogale | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Kulsze ( German Kulsen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the powiat Gołdapski (Lreis Goldap ).
Geographical location
Kulsze is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 23 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Angerburg ( Polish Węgorzewo ) and 15 kilometers southwest of today's district metropolis Gołdap (Goldap) .
history
In 1566 the small village called Kuessin , also known as Kulschen before 1785, was founded.
In 1874 the place for newly built office district came Surminnen , which existed until 1945 and for district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
138 residents were registered in Kulsen in 1910. Their number rose to 143 by 1925 and climbed - after the merger with the neighboring villages of Ziemianen ( Ziemiany in Polish ) and Schupowen (1928 to 1945 Schuppau, Czupowo in Polish) - to 372 in 1933 and to 330 in 1939.
As a result of the war, Kulsen came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish name form "Kulsze". Today it is part of the rural community Banie Mazurskie in the powiat Gołdapski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Religions
With its majority Protestant population, Kulsen was parish into the church in Benkheim (Banie Mazurskie) in the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union before 1945 . The Catholic church members were oriented towards Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today the majority of the population of Kulsze is Catholic and now belongs to the parish of Banie Mazurskie in Gołdap in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members belong to Gołdap, a branch church of Suwałki in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Native of the place
- Horst Skerra (born September 1, 1930 in Kulsen), NVA general, chief of the land forces
traffic
Kulsze is located on a side road that branches off at Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in a northerly direction from the Polish voivodship road DW 650 (formerly German Reichsstraße 136 ) and leads via Ziemiany (Ziemianen) to Rogale (Rogahlen , 1938 to 1945 Gahlen) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kulsen
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Surminnen District
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Angerburg district (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476