Wysoki Garb

Wysoki Garb ( German Auxkallen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Dubeninki ( Dubeningken ) in Gołdapski powiat ( county Goldap ).

Geographical location

Wysoki Garb located 25 kilometers east of the county town Gołdap and nine kilometers east of the central community place Dubeninki the south of the province road 651 The village was only 300 meters to the former border between Germany and Poland, which here today the border between the provinces of Warmia Masurian and Podlasie corresponds.

History

The first documented in 1597 and then called Augstlaucken village existed before 1945 only from a few small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 (as of June 3, 1938: Bergerode ) belonged Auxkallen to the Official District Loyen ( from 1939 District " Loien ", Polish today: Loje ) in a circle Goldap in the district Gumbinnen (now Russian: Gusev ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia.

In 1910, 73 residents were registered in Auxkallen. Their number increased to 1933 to 85 in 1939 and was still 75

Following the Second World War, the village called since 1939 Bergerode became part of Poland and is now a village within the Gmina Dubeninki in powiat Gołdapski the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ( 1975-1998 Voivodeship Suwałki ( Suwalki ) ).

Church

Was Auxkallen and Wysoki Garb is not Kirchdorf. The population was - and is - the parish after Dubeningken ( Dubeninki ). Until 1945 here lived a predominantly Protestant population. The parish church in Dubeningken (1938-1945: Dubeningen ) belonged to the church district Goldap in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. The Catholic church members visited since 1894 the Catholic Church in Goldap.

The reference by Gołdap exists today for the Protestant inhabitants, who are against the Catholics in the minority. Today's small Protestant church in Gołdap is a branch church of the parish of Suwalki ( Suwalki ) in the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland. The Catholic church members are now looking Dubeninki where the Protestant parish church of his time now is theirs. It is part of the deanery in the diocese Filipów Elk ( Lyck ) of the Catholic Church in Poland.

Traffic

The road services Wysoka Garbs via a country road which branches off at Błąkały (reactive bile ) from the DW 651 and via Maciejowięta ( Matznorkehmen ) to Las Prawy. A rail link no longer exists, since the railway line from Goldap Gumbinnen by the Deutsche Reichsbahn or Botkuny (Butt Kuhnen ) to Pobłędzie ( Pablindszen ) of the Polish State Railways with the Gollubien station (Polish: Golubie ) was taken out of service. The nearest airport is in Gdansk ( Gdańsk).

Footnotes

• Place of Warmia and Mazury
• Gmina Dubeninki