Powiat Gołdapski

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Powiat Gołdapski
Coat of arms of the Powiat Gołdapski Location in the voivodeship
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
County town : Gołdap
Area : 771.93 km 2
Residents : 26,825 (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 35 inhabitants / km 2
License plate : NGO
Circle structure
Municipalities : 0
Urban and rural communities : 1
Rural communities : 2
Starostei (Stand:)
Starost : Jarosław Podziewski
Address: pl. Zwycięstwa 14
19-500 Gołdap
Website : www.powiatgoldap.home.pl

The powiat Gołdapski is the easternmost powiat (district) of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . It is surrounded by the Powiats Węgorzewo in the west, Giżycko in the southwest and Olecko in the south, while the border with Podlasie in the east and the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad region in the north . In the extreme northeast there is a three-kilometer-long border with Lithuania . The powiat was established on January 1, 2002 .

The establishment of the Polish-Russian border across the former East Prussia in 1945 divided the former district of Goldap and turned the Rominter Heide into a border area. The two communities Dubeningken and Goldap used to belong to the district of Goldap, the community of Benkheim used to belong to the district of Angerburg . In 1975 the then existing powiate in Ełk (Lyck) , Goldap and Olecko (Marggrabowa) were dissolved and combined with the region around Suwałki to form the newly founded Suwałki Voivodeship . When the Powiate was re-established in 1999, the municipality of Banie Mazurskie first came to the Powiat Giżycki and in 2002 was affiliated to the newly founded Powiat Gołdapski.

Communities

The powiat comprises three parishes , which are divided into an urban-and-rural parish and two rural parishes:

Urban-and-rural parish

  • Gołdap ( Goldap ): 20,186 inhabitants

Rural communities

Web links

Commons : Powiat Gołdapski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .