Pietrasze (Gołdap)

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Pietrasze
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Pietrasze (Poland)
Pietrasze
Pietrasze
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 22 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '55 "  N , 22 ° 19' 0"  E
Residents : 10 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Gołdap - Suczki ↔ Kowalki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Pietrasze ( German  Pietraschen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the powiat Gołdapski .

Geographical location

Pietrasze is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eight kilometers south of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) . The village is located in the area of ​​the Seesker Höhe (Polish: Wzgórza Szeskie) southwest of the Tatarska Góra (Fir Head) , which, with its 308 meters, is one of the high mountains of northern Poland.

traffic

Pietrasze is located in an area not easily accessible for normal traffic on a side road that leads over the Seesker Höhe and connects Gołdap with the southern district area.

history

The small village founded in 1565, which was called Pietraschken after 1740 , and before 1900 also Pietraszen , had the appearance of a widely scattered place before 1945. In 1874 it became the district of Skötschen (Polish: Skocze), which - renamed "District Grönfleet" in 1939 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The population of Pietraschen was 181 in 1910. It decreased to 178 by 1933 and was 169 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938 Pietraschen was given the name "Rauental (Ostpr.)" As part of the National Socialist renaming campaign . As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since been known as “Pietrasze” in Polish. Today it is part of the Gołdap City and Rural Municipality in the Gołdapski powiat , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

The majority of residents Pietra Schens was before 1945 Protestant denomination and in the parish of the New Church in Goldap eingepfarrt that the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches belonged. The few Catholics were also aligned with the parish church in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945 the population of Pietrasze has been almost exclusively Catholic and continues to orientate towards Gołdap . The parish church there is now subordinate to the deanery Gołdap in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members belong to the parish in Gołdap, which is now a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Rauental (Ostpr.) (2005)
  3. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Skötschen / Grönfleet
  4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Goldap
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479