Rapa, Poland
Rapa ( German Angerapp ) is a village in the Polish community Banie Masurian ( German Benkheim ) in the powiat Gołdapski in the Warmia - Mazury. The village is located in the historic East Prussia Wegorapa River ( Angerapp ) about 20 kilometers west of the county town Gołdap ( Goldap ). About two kilometers north runs the Polish- Russian border with the Kaliningrad Oblast. South of Rapa extends the Lasy Skaliskie ( Skallischer Forestry, 1938-1945 Altheider forestry ).
History
The Barbican was first called Bischunen and belonged to Darkehmen ( since 1946 russian Озёрск, Osjorsk ). The owner Regimentsrat and Chancellor of Christoph Rappe gave the Vorwerk early 17th century, the name Angerapp. The estate remained in the family until it went bankrupt due to the effects of plague and fire in 1726.
The cornet and later captain Christian Wilhelm Lau took over the estate and reorganized successful management. This resulted in the fish ponds a carp breeding. 1729 the owner was knighted. He built a new manor house, a distillery and a brewery and laid out the park to new. 1750 inherited louse half-brother, the Councilor Johann Jakob Hoffmann, the possessions. His son was obliged, for unknown reasons, to leave the estate after reaching the age of majority Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Fahrenheid. This took over the estate Angerapp including outworks.
In 1793 Friedrich Wilhelm Johann von Fahrenheid ( 1747-1834 ), who in 1786 charged by King Frederick William II in the Prussian nobility, a large freight complex in five kilometers away small Beynuhnen ( 1938-1946 Kleinbeinuhnen, russ since 1946 Ульяновское, Uljanowskoje ). His son, Friedrich Heinrich Johann von Fahrenheid (1780-1849), brought the estate to the economic boom, built the thoroughbred breeding from the time the second largest private stud farm in Europe and laid the material foundation for the artistic ambitions of the family. In small Beynuhnen ( which is now located in Russia Uljanowkoje ) was created in 1850 a large lock on the exhibition of the art collection.
As in 1890, the last male heir of the family of Fahrenheid died, Philip inherited from Bujack, who took the name Fahrenheid, the possessions. He was the son of the sister of the last of Fahrenheid. The name went out then finally, when Philip of Fahrenheids son Horst died. General Schmidt of the Old City became the owner of the goods in Angerapp through marriage.
On September 30, 1928, the former estate districts Angerapp and small Medunischken ( 1938-1945 Medunen, poln Mieduniszki Małe ) to the new rural community Angerapp ( from 1935 municipality ) in the district were Darkehmen. On 3 June 1938, the local name of the county seat was first " Germanized " in Darkeim, from July 16, 1938, the city was finally Angerapp. At the same time the previous Angerapp was renamed to distinguish in small Angerapp. Last Office of the congregation small Angerapp to the eviction on 20 October 1944, the manor tenants Fritz Koesling.
During the Second World War, the manor house was destroyed in small Angerapp. Since the partition of East Prussia is the county seat in 1946, renamed the Osjorsk Darkehmen and a large part of the former county in Kaliningrad Oblast. Some southern villages of the district were assigned to Polish communities, including small Angerapp, which received the name Rapa. Those left behind in East Prussia residents were largely distributed to 1947 in occupied Germany west of the Oder -Neisse line; the Polish part of the area was under the Akcja Wisła ( Vistula Action ) populated with displaced Ukrainians and south-eastern Poland.
The remaining farm buildings of the estate in Rapa were the property of the agricultural cooperative PGR. From the former manor house still bear witness to the trees of the former farms and the so-called Pyramid in Rapa, a 1811 -built mausoleum of the family of Fahrenheid.
Attractions
- Pyramid in Rapa
- Lasy Skaliskie (German Skallischer Forestry, 1938-1945 Altheider Forestry )