Buczki (Ełk)

Buczki
	Buczki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 49 '  N , 22 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '19 "  N , 22 ° 25' 45"  E
Residents :	95 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-301
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ełk / DK 65 - Szeligi → Buczki
Rail route :	Giżycko – Białystok and Olsztyn – Ełk railway station: Ełk
Next international airport :	Danzig

Buczki ( German  Buczken , 1938-1945 Kleinseliggen ) 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

Buszki is located on the west bank of the Great Sellment Lake ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , five kilometers east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Buczken, a village with several small farms, is first mentioned in 1484. In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established District Selment based in small Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ), which - in 1938 in the district of Schönhorst (Ostpr.) Renamed - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) to the Prussian province East Prussia belonged. Between 1888 and 1898 Buczken in the rural community was Seliggen ( Polish Szeligi ) incorporated, and finally on June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) during the Nazi of 1938 renaming action in Kleinseliggen renamed.

In 1945, the village came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish name form Buczki . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), which also includes the neighboring town of Szeligi ( German  Seliggen ). Thus it belongs to the association of Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Buczki was parish in the Protestant Parish Church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . Buczki's ecclesiastical relationship to the district town is still valid today.

traffic

Buczki can be reached from the town of Ełk (Lyck) on a side road via Szeligi (Seliggen) . The nearest railway station is that of the town of Ełk with a connection to the Giżycko – Białystok and Olsztyn – Ełk lines .

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. 101
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kleinseliggen
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Selment / Schönhorst
5. ↑ Buczken