Żelazki (Prostki)

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Żelazki
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Żelazki (Poland)
Żelazki
Żelazki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Prostki
Geographic location : 53 ° 45 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '7 "  N , 22 ° 27' 20"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-335
Telephone code : (+48) 87
Economy and Transport
Street : Dąbrowskie → Żelazki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Żelazki ( German  target mask , 1938 to 1945 Schelasken ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Prostki ( rural community Prostken ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Żelazki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers south-east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

1553 is the founding year of the small village called Sielasken after 1785, Zylasken after 1818 and Zielasken until 1938 . Between 1874 and 1945 the village in was District Wischniewen ( Polish Wiśniowo Ełckie ) incorporated, which - renamed "District Kölmersdorf" 1938 - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Zielasken had 83 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 134.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Zielasken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Zielasken, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Zielasken was foreign-sounding place names in "Schelasken" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population in 1939 was 101.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Żelazki". The village is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Prostki (Prostken) association in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Zielasken resp. Schelasken in the Protestant Church Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Żelazki belongs to the Catholic parish in Prostki (Prostken) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Żelaski is a little off the beaten track and can only be reached by land from Dąbrowskie (Dombrowsken , Eichensee from 1927 to 1945 ) . There is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1621
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schelasken
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Wischniewen / Kölmersdorf district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  5. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 88
  7. ↑ Gmina Prostki
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  9. ↑ Target masks