Mażucie

Mażucie
	Mażucie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 20 '  N , 22 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '8 "  N , 22 ° 10' 46"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Gołdap - Samoniny → Mażucie
	Rogale - Jagoczany → Mażucie
	Jagiele - Obszarniki → Mażucie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Mażucie ( German  Masutschen , 1938 to 1945 Oberhofen (Ostpr.) ) Is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district.

Geographical location

Mażucie is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the border area with the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ) of Russia . The 190 meter high Babia Góra (Bobkalnis) rises south of the village . A side street ends in town, which before 1945 continued as the German Reichsstrasse 137 to Kleszowen (1936 to 1938 Kleschowen , 1938 to 1946 Kleschauen , Russian: Kutusowo) and to Darkehmen (1938 to 1946 Angerapp , Russian: Osjorsk) and Insterburg (Russian: Tschernjachowsk ). Today's district metropolis Gołdap (Goldap) is eight kilometers away, the former district town Darkehmen 14 kilometers.

history

Before 1945 the place called Masutschen or Oberhofen consisted of only two large courtyards. As forms of the name are Masuttkeym (by 1566), Mazutkeme (after 1685) and Masuttken delivered (by 1591).

From 1874 to 1945 Masutschen was incorporated into the Abkermeningken district. Renamed in 1933 to “Almental District”, it was part of the Darkehmen district (1939 to 1945: Angerapp district ) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 124 inhabitants registered in Masuchia. Their number changed to 111 by 1925, was 96 in 1933 and was 84 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Masutschen was renamed "Oberhofen (Ostpr.)" To avoid foreign-sounding place names for political and ideological reasons.

As a result of the war, the small village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name “Mażucie”. Between 1945 and 1975 it belonged to the Węgorzewo (Angerburg) district in the Olsztyn (Allenstein) voivodeship . Today Mażucie is part of the Gołdap City and Rural Municipality in the Gołdapski powiat , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Evangelical

The overwhelming majority of the population of Masuchia was Protestant before 1945 and parish in the parish of the Kleszowen Church, which is now in Russia (1936 to 1938: Kleschowen, 1938 to 1946: Kleschauen, Russian: Kutusowo). It was part of the church district Darkehmen (or Angerapp, Russian: Osjorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Because of the flight and displacement of the local population , church life died out. Very few Protestant church members have lived in Mażucie since 1945. They now belong to the parish in Gołdap, a subsidiary of the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

The few Catholic church members were part of the parish in Goldap, which belonged to the diocese of Warmia , until 1945 . The reference to Gołdap still exists today, where more than 90% of the population are Catholic. The parish is now part of local deanery Gołdap in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

The border location of Mażucies puts the small village “off the beaten track” in terms of traffic, as before 1945 it was located on the important Reichsstrasse 137 , which was an important traffic route linking southern and northern East Prussia . Today three minor secondary roads from the surrounding area meet in Mażucie: from the district town of Gołdap in the east, from Jagiele (Jaggeln , 1938 to 1945 Kleinzedmar) in the west and from Rogale (Rogahlen , 1938 to 1945 Gahlen (Ostpr.)) In the south. The former route to the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad is blocked. It can only be reached via the Gussew / Gołdap border crossing .

Until 1945 there was a rail connection via the Kuddern station (1938 to 1945 Kudern , the place in the current border area no longer exists) on the Lyck – Insterburg railway line . It was not reactivated after the war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Oberhofen (Ostpr.) (2005)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: district of Abschermeningken / Almental
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Darkehmen
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Darkehmen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).