Skajzgiry

Skajzgiry ( German Skaisgirren ) is a village and mayor's office ( sołectwo ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) Dubeninki ( Dubeningken ) in Gołdapski powiat ( county Goldap ).

Geographical location

Skajzgiry is located in the extreme northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, only two kilometers from the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Further east lie the Powiathauptstadt Gołdap (29 km ) and the central Gemeindeort Dubeninki (13 km ). Skajzgiry is on a side street on the province road 651 in the branch Żytkiejmy ( Szittkehmen / Schittkehmen ) to reach the south. A rail connection does not exist. By 1945 Pablindszen was (now Polish: Pobłędzie ) on the railway line from Goldap about Tollmingkehmen (now Russian: Chistye Prudy ) to Gumbinnen (now Russian: Gusev ), the nearest train station.

History

Founded in 1611 Skaisgirren place existed prior to 1945 from several small farms. In 1874, the village in the newly established District Eagle Medium (now defunct ) incorporated, the 1939 " District In the field " (the place no longer exists) was renamed and until 1945 the circle Goldap in the district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 lived in Skaisgirren 139 inhabitants. Their number dropped to 1933 to 117 in 1939 and was 106 On June 3, - officially confirmed on July 16 - 1938 Skaisgirren for political- ideological reasons of defense foreign- sounding place names in " Hellereu ( Ostpr. )" was renamed. But this change of name should not have long validity. When the village became part of Poland in consequence of the war in 1945, it received the Polish form of the name " Skajzgiry ". Between 1975 and 1998 the village belonged to Suwałki Voivodeship, which was then dissolved. Today, the site of Gmina Dubeninki in powiat Gołdapski part of the territory of Warmia and Mazury.

Church

Protestant

Before 1945, the vast majority of the population was Skaisgirrens respectively. Bright designs Protestant denomination. The village had no church of its own, but belonged to the parish Szittkehmen / Schittkehmen ( 1938-1945: fortified churches, Polish today: Żytkiemy ). That was in the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union incorporated.

Because of flight and expulsion in consequence of war, the life of the protestant church in 1945 came almost to a standstill. Live Today there are few evangelical church members. You now belong to the Church community in Gołdap, a branch church of the parish in Suwalki ( Suwalki ) in the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.

Catholic

Lived prior to 1945, very few Catholics in Skaisgirren respectively. Hellerau, then changed that with the resettlement of the village in the years after 1945. Parish church of the Catholic parishioners was jetz in Żytkiejmy that was previously the house of God of the Protestants. It was the Archangel Michael ( Sw Kościół. Michała Archanioła ) consecrated and is subject to the Diecezja Elk ( Lyck diocese ) of the Catholic Church in Poland.

Footnotes

• Place of Warmia and Mazury
• Gmina Dubeninki