Wilkasy (Gołdap)

Wilkasy
	Wilkasy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '31 "  N , 22 ° 22' 28"  E
Residents :	111 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pogorzel / DK 65 ↔ Nasuty - Grabowo
	Kozaki / DK 65 - Wrotkowo → Wilkasy
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Wilkasy ( German  Wilkassen , 1938 to 1945 Kleineichicht ) 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

Wilkasy is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, southeast of the district town of Gołdap (Goldap) . The mountain range of the Seesker Höhe rises to the west of the village (Polish: Wzgórza Szeskie).

history

Willkassen , which continued into the 20th century , was founded before 1564 and, before 1945, essentially consisted of a large estate. In 1874 the village, located on a small lake, came to the newly established Gurnen district (Polish: Górne), which existed until 1945 and belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 the Wilkassen manor had 122 inhabitants. On September 28, 1928, the village lost its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Kamionken (1938 to 1945: Eichicht, Polish: Kamionki) and thus belonged to the Altenbude district .

As a result of the war, the place with southern East Prussia that was renamed "Kleineichicht" on June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16, 1938 - became part of Poland and since then has borne the Polish name form "Wilkasy". Today the place is part of the Gołdap municipal and rural community in the Gołdapski powiat , which was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 and has since been incorporated into the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The majority of the residents of Wilkassen resp. Kleineichicht was a Protestant denomination before 1945 and parish of the Church of the Old Prussian Union in the parish of the Church of Gurnen (Polish: Górne) in the parish of Goldap in the church province of East Prussia . The few Catholics belonged to the parish church in Goldap in the Diocese of Warmia .

The ecclesiastical situation in Wilkasy changed after 1945: the predominantly Catholic church members came to the newly established parish in Górne , which was part of the Gołdap deanery in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members belong to the parish in Gołdap , a branch parish of Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wilkasy is located on a side road that leads over the Seesker Heights and connects the two important roads Landesstraße 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) and Voivodeship Road 650 . A railway connection has not existed since the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) railway with the nearest station in Pogorzel (Hegelingen , until 1906: Pogorzellen) was closed to passenger traffic in 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 Register of Places East Prussia: Kleineichicht (2005)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: Gurnen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Goldap
5. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Altenbude
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 479