Skocze
Skocze | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Gołdap | |
Gmina : | Gołdap | |
Geographic location : | 54 ° 18 ' N , 22 ° 13' E | |
Residents : | 107 (March 31, 2011) | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | |
License plate : | NGO | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | Gołdap - Kośmidry ↔ Rożyńsk Mały | |
Rail route : | no rail connection | |
Next international airport : | Danzig |
Skocze [ ˈskɔt͡ʂɛ ] ( German Skötschen , 1938 to 1945 Grönfleet ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district .
Geographical location
Skocze is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the east bank and in the valley of the Goldap (Polish: Gołdapa). The district town of Gołdap (Goldap) is six kilometers to the northeast.
history
The village, still called Skötzschen after 1651, was founded before 1564. On March 18, 1874, the place became Amtsdorf and thus gave its name to a newly established administrative district , which - renamed "District Grönfleet" in 1939 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
295 inhabitants were registered in Skötschen in 1910. Their number decreased to 271 by 1933 and was still 234 in 1939.
On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938 Skötschen was given the name "Grönfleet" as part of the National Socialist renaming campaign . When the village came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with southern East Prussia , it was given the Polish name “Skocze”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) and part of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the Powiat Gołdapski . It was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 , but is now part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Skötschen / Grönfleet district (1874–1945)
When it was established in 1874, a total of 13 villages belonged to the district of Skötschen:
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Remarks |
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On the mountain | Podgórze | ||
Great Rosinsko | Großfreiendorf | Rożyńsk Wielki | incorporated into Johannisberg around 1900 |
Big Wronken | Winterberg (East Pr.) | Wronki Wielkie | |
Jeblonsken | Urbansdorf | Jabłońskie | |
Johannisberg | Janowo | ||
Klein Wronken | incorporated into Johannisberg around 1900 | ||
Cosmedes | Kośmidry | ||
Marienthal | Niegocin | incorporated into Johannisberg around 1900 | |
Pietraschen | Rauental (East Pr.) | Pietrasze | |
Skötschen | Grönfleet | Skocze | |
Sperling meadows | 1928 incorporated into Skötschen | ||
Sutzken |
from 1933: Hitler's height |
Suczki | |
Tartars | Noldental | Tatary |
On January 1, 1945, the administrative district Grönfleet still included the following communities: Amberg, Grönfleet, Hitlershöhe, Johannisberg, Kosmeden, Noldental, Rauental, Urbansdorf and Winterberg.
church
Before 1945, the population Skötschens or Grönfleets was almost without exception Protestant denomination, and the village was in the parish of the New Church in Goldap eingepfarrt that the church district Goldap within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches belonged. The few Catholic church members were also oriented towards Goldap .
Gołdap has also been the ecclesiastical center of the Skocze population since 1945. While the city is now the Catholic parish seat in the Gołdap deanery of the Ełk diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland , the Protestant parish in Gołdap now belongs to the Suwałki parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
Skocze is a bit remote from road traffic on a side road that connects the district town of Gołdap with Kośmidry (Kosmeden) and Rożyńsk Mały (Klein Rosinsko , 1938 to 1945 Bergershof) . Until 1945 Jabłońskie (Jeblonsken , 1938-1945 Urbansdorf) was the next train station. It was on the Angerburg – Goldap railway line , which was shut down as a result of the war and later dismantled.
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grönfleet
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Skötschen / Grönfleet district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479