Widgiry
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Gołdap | ||
| Gmina : | Banie Mazurskie | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 18 ' N , 22 ° 5' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NGO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Rogale ↔ Jagiele | ||
| Żabin - Radkiejmy → Widgiry | |||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Widgiry ( German Wittgirren , 1938 to 1945 Wittbach ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the Powiat Gołdapski ( Goldap district ).
Geographical location
Widgiry is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 13 kilometers west of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) . Widgiry is not far from the border to Kaliningrad Oblast , which belongs to the Russian Federation , and 13 kilometers from the former district town of Darkehmen (1938 to 1945 Angerapp, Russian Osjorsk ).
history
The small village, called Wittiger around 1556, Wittger around 1565 and then Wittgirren until 1938, consisted of an estate with scattered farms before 1945. In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established Ballupönen district ( Stare Gajdzie in Polish ), which belonged to the Darkehmen district (1939 to 1945 "Angerapp district") in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
On September 30, 1928, Wittgirren expanded to include the neighboring town of Radtkehmen ( Radkiejmy in Polish ), which was incorporated, and on February 26, 1935, the rural community of Wittgirren was reclassified to the Rogahlen District ( Rogale in Polish ), which between 1939 and 1945 was the Gahlen District ( Ostpr.) "Was called.
In 1910 Wittgirren had 197 inhabitants. Their number was 183 in 1925, rose to 232 by 1933 and was still 201 in 1939. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938 Wittgirren changed his name to "Wittbach".
In 1945 the place came to Poland as a result of the war with southern East Prussia and has been called "Widgiry" ever since. Today it is part of the rural community Banie Mazurskie in the powiat Gołdapski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
church
Wittgirrens resp. Before 1945, Wittbach's Protestant population was in the Rogahlen Church (1938 to 1945 Gahlen, Polish Rogale ) in the Darkehmen / Angerapp church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , the Catholic population in the parish church in Goldap in the Deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) parish in the Diocese of Warmia .
Today Widgiry belongs to the Catholic parish Żabin (Klein Szabienen / Schabienen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinlautersee) in the Dean's Office Gołdap in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Evangelical Church in Gołdap, a branch church of Suwałki in the diocese Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
traffic
In terms of traffic, Widgiry is a little off the beaten track on an insignificant side road that leads from the Polish-Russian border area near Jagiele (Jaggeln , 1938 to 1945 Kleinzedmar) to Rogale (Rogahlen , 1938 to 1945 Gahlen) . A road from eineabin (Klein Szabienen / Schabienen , 1938 to 1945 Kleinlautersee) via Radkiejmy (Radtkehmen , 1938 to 1945 Wittrade) ends in Widgiry .
There is no rail link.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wittbach
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Ballupönen / Schanzenhöh district
- ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Rogahlen / Gahlen (Eastern Pr.)
- ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Darkehmen
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Darkehmen district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 478