Pełkity
| Pełkity (no longer existing) |
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Bartoszyce | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 22 ' N , 20 ° 49' E | ||
| Residents : | 0 | ||
Pełkity (German Polkitten ) was a small village in East Prussia that had been just south of the border between Poland ( Powiat Bartoszycki / Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ) and Russia ( Prawdinsk Rajon / Kaliningrad Oblast ) since 1945 . Since the 1960s, the place erased by this border has not been shown on any map and is considered to be desolate.
Geographical location
Polkitten could only be reached by land, which connected Lapkeim (now Polish: Łapkiejmy) and Perkau (Parkoszewo) to Pöhlen (now Russian: Верное (Wernoje)) and Sehmen (Russian: Солдтово (Soldatowo)). Today's Polish Voivodship Road 512 (here part of the former German Reichsstraße 142 ), which leads from Szczurkowo ( Schönbruch , Polish part of the village) to the district town of Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein ), runs two kilometers southeast of the former local office of Polkitten. Until 1945 there was a connection to the Reichsbahn line from Wehlau (today Russian: Знаменск (Snamensk)) and Friedland (Правдинск (Prawdinsk)) to Bartenstein and Heilsberg (Lidzbarkski) via the Schönbruch train station (today in the Russian part of the village Сирокое (Schirokoje) ).
Place name
The place name is of Prussian origin: "pelky" means "swamp". The name spelling changed from Pelkyten (1330), Pelkiten (1432), Polckitten (1774) and Pollkitten (1895) to Polkitten (until 1945) and Pełkity (after 1945).
history
Polkitten was founded around 1330. Over the course of many centuries, it changed from a farming village to a manor. Before 1518 there were 60 farmers living here, in 1595 there were only 25, and in 1826 only 6. The farms had been bought by the manor, the last two in 1914.
The owners of the manor on Polkitten were Heinrich von Miltitz (1525), Erhard von Kunheim (1538), Melchior von Kreutzen with his descendants (until 1719), Christoph von Lehwald (1802), Ferdinand (1828) and Roderich Bannasch, Heinrich Rohde (1876) and Karl Krah (1912), whose family managed the estate, which last comprised 517.25 hectares, until 1945.
In 1939 there were 181 inhabitants in Polkitten. Until 1945 the place belonged to the district of Bartenstein in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . After 1945 the village was on Polish territory and most recently in the area of the former Gromada Żydowo in the powiat Bartoszyce.
Polkitten District
Before 1945, Polkitten formed its own administrative district, which originally included 11 localities (municipalities and / or manor districts):
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After incorporation and outsourcing in the 1920s, the municipalities of Lapkeim, Polkitten and Redden formed the Polkitten district until 1945.
church
Polkitten was a church village before the Reformation period. It belonged to Archidiakonat Friedland (now Russian: Павдинск (Pravdinsk)) in the diocese of Warmia . The church was probably destroyed in the Polish War of 1519–1521 and has not been rebuilt. Since then, Polkitten has been incorporated into the Protestant parish of Schönbruch (today northern district in Russian: Сирокое ( Schirokoje ), southern district in Polish: Szczurkowo ). It was originally in the Bartenstein inspection area , and then in the Friedland parish until 1945 .
literature
- Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Part 1: The parishes and their positions . Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, Hamburg 1968 ( special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia eV 11, ISSN 0505-2734 ).