Babki Oleckie

Babki Oleckie
	Babki Oleckie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 '  N , 22 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '15 "  N , 22 ° 30' 22"  E
Residents :	172 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sedranki / ext. 65 ↔ Lenarty - Mieruniszki / ext. 652
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Babki Oleckie (German Babken [parish Marggrabowa] , 1938–1945 Legenquell ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa) in the powiat Olecki (Oletzko district) .

Geographical location

Babki Oleckie is located north of the town of Olecko in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the west bank of the Lega (Oleg) river .

history

The small village originally called Zerwonnen was founded in 1562. In the following centuries it was given name forms such as Bapken (before 1785), Babcken (after 1785), Babken, parish Marggrabowa (until 1928, to distinguish it from Babken, parish Gonsken , Polish: Babki Gąseckie) and Babken, Parish of Treuburg (until 1938).

In 1874, the village came into the newly established District Seedranken , which existed until 1945 and the county Oletzko , from 1939 district Treuburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Babken had 337 inhabitants. After the Stobbenorth manor district (Polish: Pieńki) was incorporated on September 30, 1928 , the population rose to 399 by 1933 and was still 386 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, 247 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, Babken was renamed "gendequell ". The decisive factor for this was the political and ideological opinion that foreign-sounding place names should be eradicated. Only seven years later, when the village in war-induced with the Southern East Prussia to Poland came, the name was changed again to the Polish name "Babki Oleckie". The village is now the seat of a Schulzenamt (sołectwo) and thus a district of the urban and rural community Olecko in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Due to its predominantly Protestant population Babken was parish until 1945 in the parish of the church in Marggrabowa (also: Oletzko , 1928–1945 Treuburg , Polish Olecko ). It was part of the Oletzko / Treuburg church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The only few Protestant church members in Babki Oleckie are now oriented towards Ełk (Lyck) , whose parish is a subsidiary of the Pisz parish (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

The now mostly Catholic church members Babki Oleckies are now part of the parish church in Judziki (Judzicken , 1929-1945 Wiesenhöhe) in one of the two Dekanate Olecko in the diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Babki Oleckie is located on a side road that leads from Sedranki (Seedranken) on the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) via Lenarty (Lehnarten) to Mieruniszki (Mierunsken) in the Podlaskie Voivodeship .

The next train station was Olecko on the Ełk – Chernyakhovsk railway line until 2012 , which was closed in 1999, then reopened between 2005 and 2012, but has now been finally closed for passenger traffic. Before 1945 there was also a connection to the Dombrowsken (Dąbrowskie) train station on the then closed line from Marggrabowa / Treuburg to Garbassen (Garbas Drugi) of the Treuburger Kleinbahnen (Olecka Kolej Wąskotorowa) .

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): Legenquell
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Seedranken
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. ^ Parafia Judziki ( Memento from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )