Maciejowięta
| Maciejowięta | |||
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Gołdap | ||
| Gmina : | Dubeninki | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 17 ' N , 22 ° 41' E | ||
| Residents : | 33 (2006) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NGO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Błąkały / ext. 651 ↔ Pobłędzie - Żytkiejmy | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Maciejowięta ( German Matznorkehmen , 1938 to 1945 Matztal ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is located in the Gołdap (Goldap) district and belongs to the rural municipality of Dubeninki (Dubeningken , 1938 to 1945 Dubeningen) .
geography
Maciejowięta is located southeast of the Rominter Heide (Polish: Puszcza Romincka) directly on the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , which was once the state border between the German Empire and Poland . It is 24 kilometers to the district town of Gołdap .
history
The village, called Matznarischken at the time , was founded around 1597 and was subsequently given different forms of name: Matznarkehmen (after 1603), Matznohrkehmen (after 1736) and Matznorkehmen (until 1938). Before 1945 the place consisted of several small courtyards and farmsteads.
From 1874 to 1945 Matznorkehmen was incorporated into the Loyen district, which - renamed "Loien District" in 1939 - belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1910 145 inhabitants were registered in Matznorkehmen. Their number decreased to 122 by 1933 and was 103 in 1939.
In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign , Matznorkehmen received the name "Matztal" on June 3, 1938.
In 1945, the village came in consequence of the war with the southern East Prussia to Poland and since then is called "Maciejowięta". The small village is with the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) today a village in the group of Gmina Dubeninki in the powiat Gołdapski . Between 1975 and 1998 it was incorporated into the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then it has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2006 the village had 33 inhabitants.
Religions
Almost without exception, the people Matznorkehmens before 1945 Protestant denomination and that was the parish of the Church Dubeningken in the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish. The few Catholics belonged to the parish church in Goldap within the Diocese of Warmia .
The reverse affiliations have been in effect since 1945: the predominantly Catholic residents are oriented towards Dubeninki , where the former Protestant church is now its parish church. The parish is part of the deanery Filipów in the diocese Elk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members visit their parish church in Gołdap , which is a branch church of the parish church in Suwałki and belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland .
traffic
Maciejowięta is away in the northeastern Province Masuria at a quiet side road that - parallel to the provincial road 651 - Błąkały (Blind Gallen , 1938-1945 Schneegrund) and Pobłędzie (Pablindszen , 1938-1945 inch pond) with Żytkiejmy (Szittkehmen / Schittkehmen , 1938 to 1945 fortified churches) .
A railway connection existed until 1945 via the railway station of the now no longer existing place Golubie (Gollubien , 1938 to 1945 Unterfelde) , which was on the Goldap – Szittkehmen (Wehrkirchen) railway line, also known as the "Kaiserbahn" and now decommissioned .
literature
- Erich Kriszio: Matznorkehmen, Matztal: an East Prussian village between the Rominter Heide and the Polish border. Frankfurt am Main 1991.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Matztal
- ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Loyen / Loien
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
- ^ 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).