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Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

village of Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1559149 ↗
Source-derived summary

Górne [ˈɡurnɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołdap, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is located in the historic region of Masuria.

For centuries, the population of the village was Polish by ethnicity, and Protestant by confession. The local church was built in the 17th century.

Transport

The Polish National road 65 runs nearby, west of the village.

Editorial summary

“Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship” enters the record as village of Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Górne, Warmian-Masurian and Voivodeship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 75-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Górne, Warmian-Masurian and Voivodeship.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Górne, Warmian-Masurian and Voivodeship provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1559149. Authority coordinates are 54.267, 22.450. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship primary sources, Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship archive and Górne research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Górne, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.