Włosty (Gołdap)

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Włosty
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Włosty (Poland)
Włosty
Włosty
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 16 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '56 "  N , 22 ° 13' 12"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Konikowo / ext. 650 ↔ Boćwinka / ext. 650
Rail route : no rail connection



Włosty ( German  Flösten , 1938 to 1945 Bornberg (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Gołdap (Goldap) in the Gołdap district .

Geographical location

Włosty is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers southwest of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) .

history

The place formerly called Flösten was founded in 1564. He developed into a widely dispersed village in 1874 in the newly built office district Grabowen was incorporated. This existed - renamed the "Arnswald District District" in 1939 - until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The population of Flöstau was 167 in 1910, decreased to 147 by 1933 and was 142 in 1939.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Flösten was given the name Bornberg (East Prussia) in the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign . As a result of the war, the village came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and has been called "Włosty" since then. Today it is part of the Gołdap urban and rural community in the Gołdapski powiat , until 1998 it was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Evangelical

Before 1945 the population of Flöstens resp. Bornberg's almost exclusively Protestant denomination and belonged to the parish of the church Grabowen in the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population resulted in the loss of almost all Protestant church members. Today they belong to the parish in Gołdap , a subsidiary of the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945 only very few Catholic church members lived in Flösten resp. Bornberg. Their parish church stood in the town of Goldap and belonged to the diocese of Warmia . Today the population of Włosty is predominantly Catholic. For it was in Grabowo a new parish established that the dean's office Gołdap in the Diocese of Elk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland belongs.

traffic

Włosty is a little off the beaten track on a side road that runs parallel to Voivodship Road 650 (former German Reichsstrasse 136 ) and connects Konikowo (Kleeberg) with Boćwinka (Bodschwingken , Herandstal valley from 1938 to 1945 ) . By 1945, the train ended at the Jeblonsken station (1938 to 1945: Urbansdorf, Polish: Jabłońskie) on the Angerburg – Goldap railway line , which is no longer operated as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Bornberg (Ostpr.)
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabowen / Arnswald district
  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