Złota Góra (Nidzica)

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Złota Góra
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Złota Góra (Poland)
Złota Góra
Złota Góra
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Nidzica
Gmina : Nidzica
Geographic location : 53 ° 26 '  N , 20 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '14 "  N , 20 ° 36' 50"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NNI
Economy and Transport
Street : Zimna Woda / ext. 545 ↔ Wały
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Złota Góra (after 1945 initially Wujewko , German  Wujewken , 1938 to 1945 Goldberg ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Nidzica (urban and rural municipality Neidenburg ) in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ).

Geographical location

Złota Góra is located in the southwestern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers northeast of the district town of Nidzica ( German  Neidenburg ).

history

Vir 1945 Wujewken one for state forest Kaltenborn (Polish Zimna Woda belonging) forester . The forest protection district Wujewken was u. a. on July 20, 1894 incorporated into the newly formed Kaltenborn manor in the Prussian district of Neidenburg , which in turn was assigned to the Kaltenborn district . When the forest estate district Kaltenborn on September 30, 1929 in the newly formed "estate district Hartigswalde , share district Neidenburg, forest", Wujewken was incorporated into the rural community Muschaken ( Muszaki in Polish ) as a place to live . On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - 1938 the Wujeken Revierförsterei was renamed "Goldberg" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

This name refers to the gold mountains in the immediate vicinity (Polish: Złote Góry ). They were once considered the “most beautiful forest height in the area”. In the gold mountains, let Erich Koch , the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the province of East Prussia , a hunting lodge built after he had his hunting lodge already Forsthaus Goldberg can be set up. Here he gave free rein to his passion for hunting, and he responded to the protests of some forest officials by transferring the opponents outside of East Prussia. When Koch had to withdraw from the conquered territories as Ukraine's commissioner , he stored his luxurious household items and an arsenal of hunting weapons from there in the Goldberg forester's house, where everything fell into the hands of the conquering Soviets in 1945.

In 1945, as a result of the war, the Goldberg forest settlement with all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland . It received the Polish form of the name "Wujewko", which was then changed to "Złote Góry" ( Polish Złoto = German  gold , Góra = mountain ), and from 2008 to "Złota Góra". The mountain "Złota Góra" has the same name, at 229 meters the highest point in the Gold Mountains. The current Osada leśna (= forest settlement) Złota Góra is now part of the urban and rural community of Nidzica (Neidenburg) in the powiat Nidzicki ( Neidenburg district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Wujewken resp. Goldberg in the Protestant church Muschaken (Polish Muszaki ) in the church province of East Prussia de Church of the Old Prussian Union , also parish in the Roman Catholic Church Neidenburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Złota Góra belongs on the Protestant side to the Nidzica parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , on the Catholic side to the Zimna Woda (Kaltenborn) branch of the Napiwoda (Grünfließ) parish .

traffic

Złota Góra is located east of the provincial road 545 and can be reached from Zimna Woda via a side road leading to Wały (Wallendorf) . There is no connection to rail traffic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Goldberg
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kaltenborn District
  3. ↑ Wujewko-Goldberg-Wujewken at GenWiki
  4. ↑ a b c Grünfließer Forst with Omulefsee and the Goldberge at ostpreussen.net
  5. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495