Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Górne ( German Gurnen ) is a city in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the gmina (Town ) Gołdap ( Goldap ) in Gołdapski powiat ( county Goldap ).
- 3.1 Church building
- 3.2 parish
- 3.3 priest (until 1945)
- 3.4 Church records (up to 1945)
- 4.1 External links
- 4.2 footnotes
Geographical location
Górne located ten kilometers southwest of the city Gołdap ( Goldap ) and is of Regiele ( Regellen, 1938-1945 Glaubitz ) to achieve the national road 65 from two kilometers. In addition, a side street of Botkuny (Butt Kuhnen, 1938-1945 Bodenhausen ) leads to the voivodeship 651 on Kolniszki ( Collmischken, 1938-1945 castle field ) directly into the site. A rail connection no longer exists, since the PKP line 41 has been closed from Elk ( Lyck ) about Olecko ( Treuburg ) to Gołdap 1993 for passenger and for freight transport since 2002.
History
The small estate village was called at that time Gurnen eponymous on March 18, 1874 Location for the newly established office district Gurnen, which existed until 1945 and belonged to the district Goldap in the district of the Prussian province of East Prussia Gumbinnen.
In 1910, the Gutsbezirk Gurnen counted 225 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, included Gurnen, the Vorwerk Scheelhof of Babken (now Polish: Babki ) Pröken ( Przeczka ) and Wittichs field ( Bronisze ) to the new rural community Gurnen together. The population grew until 1933 to 587 in 1939 and amounted to 603
Gurnen came in 1945 as a result of World War II to Poland and received the Polish name " Górne ". Today, the town in the rural municipality ( gmina ) Gołdap ( Goldap ) is integrated with a seat Schulz Office, located in the powiat Gołdapski in the Warmia and Mazury ( Suwałki Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998 ).
District Gurnen (1874-1945)
Among the rural communities and agricultural estates, in 1874 the District Gurnen formed, among 15 locations:
Three municipalities reclassified in the District Gurnen: On January 1, 1939 from the District Rogainen ( Rogajmy today Polish): Mörleinstal (until 1938 Marli Owen, Polish: Marlinowo ) Scharnen (until 1938 Czarnen, Polish: Czarne ) and Summau (until 1938 Summowen, Polish: Sumowo ). On January 1, 1945, the District Gurnen still consisted of twelve municipalities: Buschbach, Friedrichau, Glaubitz, Gurnen, Hall field, Hegelingen, Mörleinstal, Rappenhöh, Satticken, Scharnen, Summau and Widmann village.
Church
Church building
Already in 1566 has been prescribed in Gurnen church land. The first church building was made in 1574 bis 1581st It was the oldest church in the district Goldap. Between 1612 and 1617, the church has undergone a fundamental transformation.
In the mid-19th century the church was so damaged that the tower had to be demolished and a reconstruction was made. The church was now prepared fieldstone in the Romanesque style without a tower.
In January 1945 the church was plugged after withdrawal of the Soviet troops in fire and is now only perceive as a ruin in place.
Parish
The vast majority of the inhabitants Gurner was until 1945 a Protestant denomination. Gurnen was a wide -area, 13 villages counted parish with about 2,800 last church members since 1612 Pfarrsdorf. It belonged to the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
Because of flight and expulsion of the German population, the number of Protestant church members dropped close to zero. In Górne to Polish citizens settled that belonged mostly to the Catholic Church. In a Górne you built the parish Św. Antoniego Padewskiego ( St. Anthony of Padua ), which belongs to the deanery in the diocese Gołdap Elk ( Lyck ) of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the Church community Gołdap, which is a branch church of the Church in Suwalki ( Suwalki ) in the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.
Pastor ( 1945 )
In the period from 1640 to 1945 officiated in Gurnen 16 Protestant clergymen:
- Valentin Thilo, 1640-1643
- Alexander Basel, 1653-1694
- Daniel Müller, 1693-1710
- Adam White, 1711-1744
- Christoph Pawlick, 1744-1752
- Jacob Paulini, 1753-1793
- Samuel Clauss, 1793-1801
- Gottlieb Stern, 1803-1826
- Leopold Wilhelm Schütz, 1830-1847
- Arnold Theodor Ludwig Dubois, 1847-1878
- Carl Jacob Unterberger, 1878-1882
- Carl Heinrich Neumann, 1853-1909
- Hans Graemer, 1909-1933
- Hans Georg Brehm, 1934-1937
- Alfred Donder, 1939-1943
- Ernst Günther hatred, 1943-1945
Church records (up to 1945)
From the parish register documents of the Protestant parish Gurnen a number is obtained and kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin- Kreuzberg:
- Baptisms: 1749-1944
- Marriages: 1749-1944
- Burials 1726 to 1944.