Wiłkajcie

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Wiłkajcie
Wiłkajcie does not have a coat of arms
Wiłkajcie (Poland)
Wiłkajcie
Wiłkajcie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Gołdap
Geographic location : 54 ° 20 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '53 "  N , 22 ° 12' 34"  E
Residents : 68 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Gołdap ↔ Mażucie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Wiłkajcie ( German  Wilkatschen , 1938 to 1945 Birkendorf (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

Wiłkajcie is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the immediate vicinity of the Polish-Russian state and EU external borders. The district town of Gołdap (Goldap) is six kilometers to the south-east.

history

Wiłkajcie was a widely dispersed village before 1945 and has remained so to this day. Until after 1584 the place was called Wylkass , until after 1596 Augstapen , after 1596 Wilkaidtschen , after 1740 Wilkaitschen , after 1763 Willckatschen and until 1938 Wilkatschen .

Between 1874 and around 1908 Wilkatschen was incorporated into the Ballupönen district (Polish: Bałupiany), which then merged into the Grilskehmen district (Polish: Grygieliszki), which - renamed the Grilsen district in 1939 - existed until 1945 and became the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Wilkatschen's population was 206 in 1910. It had decreased to 171 by 1933 and was 154 in 1939.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16), Wilkatschen received the name "Birkendorf (Ostpr.)" In the course of the National Socialist renaming campaign . As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with the whole of southern East Prussia and has been using the Polish name "Wiłkajcie" ever since. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: sołectwo) and a locality in the network of the urban and rural municipality Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

church

Before 1945 lived in Wilkatschen resp. Birkendorf only a few Catholics . Their parish church was that in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia . The majority of the population was Protestant and parish in the parish of the parishes in Goldap , belonging to the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

traffic

Wiłkajcie is very remote in the shadow of the Polish-Russian border on an insignificant side road that connects Gołdap with Mażucie (Mautschen , 1938 to 1945 Oberhofen) . The route of the Lyck – Insterburg railway , which was operated until 1945 and was destroyed in the war and dismantled, runs through the village . A rail connection via the station in Gołdap has not existed since 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Birkendorf (Ostpr.)
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ballupönen / Grilskehmen / Grilsen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479