Babki Gąseckie

Babki Gąseckie
	Babki Gąseckie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	53 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '11 "  N , 22 ° 29' 2"  E
Residents :	106 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sędki / DK 16 - Chełchy ↔ Kijewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Babki Gąseckie (German Babken [parish Gonsken] , 1938-1945 Babeck ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa [Oletzko] , 1928–1945 Treuburg) in the Olecko district (Oletzko district , 1939–1945 Treuburg district) .

Geographical location

Babki Gąseckie is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the west bank of the Lega river in the Masurian Lake District (Polish: Pojezierze Mazurskie). The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) is 16 kilometers north of Babki Gąseckie.

history

The small village called Babigk at the time was founded in 1476. In the course of its history it found other forms of name such as Babckenn (before 1785), Alt Babcken (after 1785) and - to distinguish it from the place Babki, Ksp. Marggrabowa / Treuburg (Polish: Babki Oleckie) - with the addition Babki, Ksp. Gonsken (until 1938).

In 1874, Babken became Amtsdorf and gave its name to an administrative district , which - renamed "Amt district Babeck" in 1939 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Oletzko district (1939–1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 208 inhabitants registered in Babken. Their number decreased to 177 by 1933 and was still 157 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Babken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Babken, 127 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, Babken was renamed "Babeck" for political and ideological reasons - in order to avoid place names sounding foreign. When the village came to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war with southern East Prussia , it was given the Polish place name "Babki Gąseckie". Today Babki Gąsecki is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) and part of the urban and rural community Olecko in the Powiat Olecki , which was assigned to the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 , but has since been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Babken / Babeck district (1874–1945)

The Babken (or Babeck) administrative district initially had ten villages, at the end there were eight:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Babken , Ksp. Gonsken	Babeck	Babki Gąseckie
Bartken		Bartki
Dzingellen	Dingeln	Dzięgiele Oleckie
Great Gonschorowen	Klinken (Ostpr.)	Gąsiorowo
Ki-lions		Kijewo
Klein Gonschorowen	Little lions	Gąsiorówko	1928 incorporated into Kiöwen
Lakommen		Łakome	incorporated into Kiöwen before 1908
Breakdowns	Kelchdorf	Pomiany
Satty corners	Satiated	Zatyki
Schwiddern		Świdry

In January 1945 the municipal district Babeck belonged to the municipalities: Babeck, Bartken, Dingeln, Kelchdorf, Kiöwen, Klinken, Satticken and Schwiddern.

Religions

Before 1945, the majority of the population of Babken was of the Protestant denomination. The village was in the parish of the church Gonsken (1938-1945: Herzogskirchen, Polish: Gąski), which belonged to the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The only few Protestant church members of Babki Gąseckies are now orienting themselves towards the church in Ełk (Lyck) , a branch church of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

The only small number of Catholics before 1945 was oriented towards the parish church in Marggrabowa / Treuburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Now the mostly Catholic population of Babki Gąseckies belongs to the parish in Gąski , which is assigned to the Olecko dean in the diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Babki Gąseckie can be reached via a side road that branches off from Landesstraße 16 at Sędki (Sentken) and leads via Lega (Leegen) and Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938–1945 Kelchendorf) to Kijewo (Kiöwen) .

There is no longer a rail link since 1999, when the Ełk – Chernyakhovsk railway line with the nearest station in Chełchy was closed to passenger traffic.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Babeck
3. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke: Babken / Babeck district
4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (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. 63.
7. ↑ The addition Gąseckie refers to the former parish Gonsken , Polish = Gąski
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.