Maciejowa Wola

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Maciejowa Wola
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Maciejowa Wola (Poland)
Maciejowa Wola
Maciejowa Wola
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Banie Mazurskie
Geographic location : 54 ° 18 '  N , 22 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '39 "  N , 22 ° 7' 5"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Obszarniki - SkaliszkiejmyKlewiny
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Maciejowa Wola ( German  Matzwolla , 1938 to 1945 Balschdorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the powiat Gołdapski ( Goldap district ).

Geographical location

Maciejowa Wola is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers west of the current district town of Gołdap (Goldap) and 15 kilometers south of the former district capital Darkehmen (1938 to 1946, Angerapp, Russian Osjorsk ), which is now on Russian territory .

history

In which, after 1565 Mocewalle after 1584 Matze Walde , by 1590. Macewolle after 1603 Maczewalle and until 1938 Matzwolla said place it was before 1945 a widely scattered village.

In 1874, the place was incorporated into the newly established district of Rogahlen ( Polish: Rogale ), which - renamed "District of Gahlen" in 1939 - existed until 1945 and became the district of Darkehmen (1939 to 1945, "District of Angerapp") in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province East Prussia belonged.

184 inhabitants were registered in Matzwolla in 1910. Their number decreased to 172 by 1925, was 167 in 1933 and was only 144 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Matzwolla was renamed “Balschdorf” for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

When the place came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with southern East Prussia , it received the Polish form of the name "Maciejowa Wola". Today it is part of the rural community Banie Mazurskie in the powiat Gołdapski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945 Matzwolla was in the Protestant Church in Rogahlen (1938 to 1945 Gahlen, Polish Rogale ) in the church district Darkehmen / Angerapp in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church in Goldap in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz ) parish in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the former Protestant church in Rogale is a Catholic parish church, a branch church to the parish Żabin (Klein Szabienen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinlautersee) in the Gołdap deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . According to Gołdap, the Protestant church members now belong to the local branch church of Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Maciejowa Wola is away from the traffic on a side road of Obszarniki (Abschermeningken , 1932-1945 Almental) on the Polish-Russian national border on Skaliszkiejmy (Skallischkehmen , 1938-1945 bulk Steinau) according Klewiny (Klewienen , 1938-1945 fir angle) leads .

Individual evidence

  1. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Balschdorf
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Rogahlen / Gahlen
  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).
  5. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Dokuemnet , Göttingen, 1968, p. 478