Szyliny

Szyliny
	Szyliny
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 20 '  N , 22 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '4 "  N , 22 ° 21' 0"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Jurkiszki / ext. 651 → Szyliny / Rominter Heide
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szyliny ( German  Schillinnen , 1938 to 1945 Heidensee ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district .

Geographical location

Szyliny is located in the Rominter Heide Landscape Park (Polish: Park Krajobrazowy Puszczy Rominckiej) in the southwest of the Rominter Heide . The east bank of the Gołdap (Lake Goldaper) is 500 meters away and the Polish-Russian border is 1000 meters away.

history

The former Schillinnen consisted of a forestry and a few farmsteads before 1945 and was also provided with a spa and forest house. On March 18, 1874, the small village was incorporated into the newly established district Goldap Mühle, which was renamed on July 25, 1939 in " District Bodenhausen " (until 1938 the place was called Buttkuhnen , Polish: Botkuny) and until 1945 to the district Goldap im Gumbinnen region belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The population of Schillinnens in 1910 was 43, 39 in 1933 and 47 in 1939.

In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign , Schillinnen received the name "Heidensee" on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938. In 1945, the village came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and was named "Szyliny". Today it is a small town within the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski and - after being assigned to the Suwałki Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998 - belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Church was Schillinnen resp. Heidensee oriented to Goldap until 1945 . The Protestant parish there belonged to the Goldap parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholic parish church in Goldap was assigned to the Diocese of Warmia .

Church members have had a relationship with Gołdap since 1945 . The former Protestant “Old Church” there is now a Catholic place of worship as “Marienkirche” within the Gołdap Dean's Office in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The local evangelical parish is a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Szyliny is only a few kilometers northeast of the district town of Gołdap and can be reached via Voivodship Road 651 via the Jurkiszki junction (Jörkischken , 1938 to 1945 Jarkental) .

There is no longer a train connection. The next train station was once Buttkuhnen (1938 to 1945: Bodenhausen, Polish: Botkuny) on the two railway lines Gumbinnen – Goldap and Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) . The former was decommissioned in 1945 as a result of the war, the other has not been used for passenger transport since 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Heidensee
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Goldap Mühle / Bodenhausen
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
4. ^ 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). 
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479