Chełchy (Świętajno)

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Chełchy
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Chełchy (Poland)
Chełchy
Chełchy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '28 "  N , 22 ° 17' 11"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-411
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Dunajek / ext. 655 ↔ Cichy - Sokółki - Kowale Oleckie / DK 65
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Chełchy ( German  Chelchen , 1938–1945 Kelchen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which is part of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Chełchy is located on the north bank of Lake Chelcher (1938-1945 Lake Kelchen, Polish Jezioro Chełchy ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . To the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) it is 15 kilometers in an easterly direction.

history

The small manor village once called Chelchen was founded in 1558. Before 1938, the addition of Schwentainen parish and near Duneyken was added to distinguish it from Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938–1945 Vorbergen) , which is only a few kilometers further north .

The estate and its lands belonged to the von Lehndorff family in the 17th century . In 1828 a Mr. Seydel bought it for 12,300 thalers, and the following generations of his family lived here until 1945.

The manor district of Chelchen was incorporated into the newly established district of Duneyken ( Dunajek in Polish ) in 1874, which - changed to the district of Duneiken in 1938 - existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Oletzko (1933–1945 district of Treuburg ) in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The residential areas Forsthaus, Krug, Meierei, north and south also belonged to the manor district (status: 1905). In 1910 Chelchen near Duneyken had 196 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Chelchen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Chelchen, 172 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, Chelchen gave up his independence and was incorporated into the neighboring village of Duneyken (1938–1945 Duneiken, Polish: Dunajek). On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938, it changed its name in the - in the eyes of political ideologues not so outlandish appearing - chalices .

In 1945, the village came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and now bears the Polish name form Chełchy . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and is therefore a place in the network of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated.

The former manor house with its 21 rooms fell victim to the war, only the farm buildings can still be used.

Religions

Before 1945 Chelchen was parish in the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen in the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (1928–1945 Treuburg ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Chełchy belongs to the evangelical parish Wydminy (Widminnen) , a branch parish of the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Chełchy is conveniently located on a side road that connects the voivodship road DW 655 near Dunajek (Duneyken , 1938–1945 Duneiken) with the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) at Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938–1945 Reimannswalde) . A railway connection no longer exists since the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg ( Polish: Kruklanki – Olecko ) railway with the nearest railway station Duneyken / Duneiken is no longer operated as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code List 2013, p. 139
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kelchen
  3. ↑ a b Uli Schubert: Municipal directory, Oletzko district
  4. ↑ a b c d Chelchen near Duneyken
  5. ↑ a b Chełchy - Chelchen / Chalice
  6. ^ Rolf Jehke: District of Duneyken / Duneiken
  7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, pp. 195/196.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.