Barany (Ełk)

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Barany (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '31 "  N , 22 ° 19' 46"  E
Residents : 162 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-300
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 65 → Barany
Ełk → Barany
Maleczewo → Barany
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk
train stations: Nowa Wieś Ełcka or Ełk Szyba Zachód
Next international airport : Danzig



Barany ( German  Barannen , 1938 to 1945 Keipern ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Barany is located on the river Elk ( Polish Ełk ) on the southwest bank of Lake Lyck ( Polish Jezioro Ełckie ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , four kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Its creation was that after 1785 Barrannen and until 1938 Barannen -called village in 1503. Between 1874 and 1945, it belonged to the district of Elk Country based in Neuendorf ( Polish Nowa Wieś Ełcka ) in district Elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Barannen had 304 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Barannen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Barannen, 240 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the neighboring estate district Malleczewen (1938–1945 Maletten , Polish Maleczewo ) was incorporated into Barannen. The inhabitants grew accordingly, and was in 1933 a total of 353 and 1939 already 387. (officially confirmed on July 16) On 3 June 1938 was Barannen the renaming in Keipern .

In 1945 the village was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and got the Polish form of the name Barany . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Barannen was parish in the Protestant community of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic community of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Barany belongs to the Catholic parish in Nowa Wieś Ełcka (Neuendorf) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The evangelical inhabitants stick to the parish in Ełk, a branch parish of the parish Pisz (Johannisburg) of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Barany is a bit out of the way and can be reached - partly by land - from Ełk and the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) as well as from the neighboring town of Maleczewo .

Until 1945 Barannen or Keipern was connected to the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) railway station via the “Hertasee” station - which still exists today under the name “Barany”, but is no longer in operation. Today, Nowa Wieś Ełcka (Neuendorf) and today's district station Ełk Szyba Zachód ( German  Sybba West , 1938–1945 Walden West ) are the nearest train stations.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 12
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Keipern
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Lyck-Land
  5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 82
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494.
  10. ↑ Barannen (District of Lyck)