Popowo (Prostki)

Popowo
	Popowo
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 '56 "  N , 22 ° 23' 37"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1680N: Prostki / DK 65 ↔ Sokółki - Wojtele - Skarżyn - Kożuchy Małe
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Popowo ( German  Popowen , 1938 to 1945 Wittingen (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Popowo is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 16 kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Popowo was founded as Rosnitzo in 1484. After 1785 the place name was written Poppowen and then - until 1938 - Popowen .

In 1874, the village was incorporated into the newly established administrative district Gorczitzen ( Polish Gorczyce ), which was renamed in 1897 in "District Borken " (Polish Borki ). He was until 1945 part of the circle elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 113 inhabitants were registered in Popowen. Around this time the neighboring town of Krupinnen (1938 to 1945 Kleinwittingen , in Polish Krupin ) was incorporated. The population rose to 280 by 1993 and was 234 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Popowen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Popowen 60 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938 Popowen was foreign-sounding place names in "Wittingen (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons of defense renamed .

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Popowo". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the Gmina Prostki (Prostken) association in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Popowen was parish in the Protestant Church Ostrokollen (1938-1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Popowo belongs to the parish in Prostki with a branch church in Sokółki (Sokolken , 1938 to 1945 Stahnken) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Popowo is on the side street 1680N, which connects Prostki (Prostken) and Skarżyn (Skarzinnen , 1938 to 1945 Richtenberg) and the two municipal areas of Prostki and Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 954
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wittingen (Ostpr.)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gorczitzen / Borken district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 86
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
9. ↑ Popowen