Pogrodzie

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Pogrodzie (2010)

Pogrodzie ( German Pogardichen, Neukirch, Neukirch auf der Höhe, Neukirchhöhe ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Tolkmicko (Tolkemit) in the powiat Elbląski . The place has 660 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The village is located in the former West Prussia , about seven kilometers southeast of Tolkmicko (Tolkemit) , ten kilometers southwest of Frombork (Frauenburg) , 26 kilometers northeast of Elbląg (Elbing) and 82 kilometers northwest of Olsztyn (Allenstein) .

history

The village was built on the spot where the Prussian Pogordichen settlement had previously been . The festival for the establishment of the German village was issued on July 26, 1305 by the order commander Heinrich von Gera . The locator commissioned with the settlement was called Heinrich.

Around 1864, the area around the old church village was over 2809 acres . Around 1902 Neukirch auf der Höhe was renamed Neukirchhöhe .

In 1945 Neukirch amount belonged to the circle Elbing in the administrative district of Gdansk in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia of the German Reich .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Neukirchhöhe was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . In the summer of 1945 the region was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying forces . The Poles based the place name Pogrodzie on the old Pogardichen . Unless the villagers had fled, they were subsequently evicted from Pogrodzie by the local Polish administrative authorities .

In the years 1975 to 1998 the place was administratively part of the Powiat Elbląski.

Population development until 1945

year Residents Remarks
1798 464 188 Evangelicals, 225 Catholics and 51 Mennonites
1864 555 on December 3rd
1933 591
1939 603

Parish

Neukirchhöhe had a Roman Catholic parish until 1945. The Polish village population that has been present since 1945 is also largely Roman Catholic.

Worth seeing

The village church dates from the second half of the fourteenth century. Today's neo-Gothic building was built between 1778 and 1789. The pulpit inside the church dates from 1650. There is also a painting of St. Nicholas by Joseph Korzeniewski.

traffic

Pogrodzie is located at the intersection of highways No. 503 and No. 504.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ District of Elbing: Neukirch Höhe (home district of Elbing City and Elbing Land, 2016)
  2. ↑ a b Prussian Ministry of Finance: Results of the property and trade tax assessment in the administrative district of Danzig . Danzig 1867. See: 4. Elbing District , pp. 10–11, paragraph 79.
  3. ^ Yearbooks of the Prussian monarchy under the government of Friedrich Wilhelm the Third . Volume 4, Unger, Berlin 1799, p. 407.
  4. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. elbing.html # ew33elbnneukirch. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '  N , 19 ° 36'  E