Sokolica (Bartoszyce)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Bartoszyce | ||
| Gmina : | Bartoszyce | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 12 ′ N , 20 ° 58 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 300 | ||
| Postal code : | 11-213 Łabędnik | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NBA | ||
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| Street : | Sępopol - Wiatrowiec ↔ Łabędnik / ext. 592 | ||
Sokolica ( German Falkenau, Bartenstein district ) is a village in the north of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is in the Powiat Bartoszycki and belongs to the Bartoszyce .
Geographical location and transport links
Sokolica is located 14 kilometers southeast of the district town of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) on a side road that connects Sępopol (Schippenbeil) and Wiatrowiec (Wöterkeim) with Łabędnik (Groß Schwansfeld) on the Polish Voivodship Road 592 (former German Reichsstrasse 135 ).
history
The municipality formerly called Falkenau - located in the Friedland district until 1927 - became the eponymous place of the previous Wöterkeim district (Polish: Wiatrowiec) on May 4, 1930 , which was then renamed the "Falkenau district". He belonged to the district of Bartenstein (Ostpr.) In the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Wöterkeim and Falkenau remained the only two communities belonging to this district until 1945. In 1910 there were 383 residents in Falkenau, in 1933 there were 553, and in 1939 552.
As a result of the Second World War , Falkenau came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and was given the name "Sokolica". Until 1954, the village was the seat of its own municipality (Gmina) and is today the Schulzenamt within the rural municipality of Bartoszyce in the powiat of the same name in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Olsztyn Voivodeship ).
church
Church building
The parish church in Sokolica is a well-preserved religious order from the years 1350 to 1360. The tower superstructure dates from the turn of the 14th to the 15th century, the vestibule in the south was added in the 15th century. Inside the church there are remains of an altar from 1420 to 1430, covered by a flat wooden ceiling. During renovation work in 1896, wall paintings from around 1500 were discovered.
Between 1525 and 1945 the church was a Protestant church. The building was then expropriated in favor of the Catholic Church. It is now called Kościół Święty Anny ( St. Anne's Church ).
Parish
Falkenau was already a parish and parish village in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation found its way here very early. Between 1525 and 1533 Falkenau was associated with Groß Schwansfeld (now in Polish: Łabędnik), after which there were Protestant clergymen in office until 1945. Initially belonging to the Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) inspection , Falkenau became a parish within the church district Friedland (today in Russian: Prawdinsk), then in the church district Bartenstein (Bartoszyce) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Due to flight and expulsion , the number of Falkenau Protestant Germans fell to almost zero. Mostly Catholic Poles settled in Sokolica and the village church became their place of worship. In 1962 a parish was established in Sokolica, to which Śmiardowo (Schmirdtkeim) became a branch. The parish of Sokolica belongs to the deanery Sępopol (Schippenbeil) within the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland .
Protestant church members living in Sokolica now belong to the parish in Bartoszyce, which in turn is a branch church of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
Before 1945, the parish of Falkenau included:
- Falkenau (Sokolica)
- Grudshöfchen (Gruda)
- horst
- Maxheim (Maszewy)
- Rosenort (Różyna)
- Forest house.
Pastor (1533 to 1945)
23 pastors officiated as Protestant clergy in Falkenau:
- NN., Until 1538
- Esticampianks, 1545
- NN., Until 1556
- NN., Until 1558
- Michael Harenius, 1579, 1599
- Johann Kluge, 1615-1618
- Georg Schwartz, 1623, 1632
- Georg Kleibitz
- Georg Bliesner, 1655–1670
- Matthias Jacobi, 1670-1696
- Christian Heinrich Gebuhr, 1697–1735
- Laurentius Bödner, 1735–1771
- Abraham Simon Roscius, 1766-1780
- Gerhard Gottfried Vogler, 1781–1786
- Johann Daniel Schmidt, 1787–1792
- Johann Friedrich Worm, 1792–1793
- Abraham Becker, 1794-1836
- Wilhelm Frank, from 1837
- Magnus Großjohann , 1859-1867
- Carl Ludwig Milau, 1867–1889
- Johannes Adolf V. Huebner, 1889–1922
- Ferdinand Todtenhaupt, from 1923
- Richard Daudert, until 1945
Church records
From the church register documents from the period before 1945 have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1670-1850
- Weddings: 1670 to 1849 (excluding 1679 to 1699)
- Burials: 1671 to 1849.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Wöterkeim / Falkenau district
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Friedland district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Bartenstein district (Polish Bartoszyce). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Sokolica - Falkenau in the East Prussia portal
- ↑ Place directory / parishes of Bartenstein district ( memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pages 36 to 37
- ↑ Christa Stache, directory of church records in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin. Part I: The eastern church provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. Berlin, 3rd edition 1992, p. 39
