Powiat Gołdapski
Powiat Gołdapski | |
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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 |
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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
- Banie Mazurskie ( Benkheim ): 3707 inhabitants
- Dubeninki ( Dubeningken ): 2932 inhabitants
Web links
- Official website of Gołdap County (Polish)
Footnotes
- ↑ 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 .