Chełchy (Ełk)

Chełchy
	Chełchy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '5 "  N , 22 ° 27' 35"  E
Residents :	442 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sędki / DK 16 → Chełchy
	Kijewo ↔ Przykopka
Rail route :	PKP line 41: Ełk – Olecko (no more stops in Chełchy, only sporadic rail traffic)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Chełchy ( German  Chelchen , 1938-1945 Kelchendorf ) 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

Chełchy is located on the Lega river in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, ten kilometers northeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Founded Chelchen in 1431. Between 1874 and 1945, the village in the administrative district was Soffen ( Polish Krokocie ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Chelchen had a total of 262 inhabitants in 1910. Their number rose to 278 by 1925, was 269 in 1933 and was 275 in 1939.

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, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On August 18, 1938, Chelchen was renamed Kelchendorf for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names .

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Chełchy . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

Until 1945 Chelchen was parish in the Evangelical 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 .

Today the Protestant residents of Chełchy stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . For Catholics, Chełchy now has its own parish with an associated parish church , which was built in 1991. She bears the name Kościół Św. Brata Alberta Chmielewskiego ( German  Church of the Holy Brother Albert Chmielowski ) and belongs to the deanery Ełk - Miłosierdzia Bożego in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The parish also has a branch church in Sędki (Sentken) .

traffic

Chełchy can be reached from the Polish national road 16 via Sędki (Sentken) . In addition, a side road runs from Kijewo (Kiöwen) to Przykopka (Przykopken , 1926-1945 Birkenwalde) through the place.

Since 1879 the place was a train station on the Lyck – Insterburg ( Polish Ełk – Tschernjachowsk ), which after 1945 was only used on Polish territory and in 2018 between Ełk and Olecko (Marggrabowa (Oletzko), 1928–1945 Treuburg) was used in freight traffic.

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 List 2013, p. 139
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kelchendorf
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chelchen (District of Lyck)
5. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Soffen
6. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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. 83
9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494.
11. ↑ Parafia Chełchy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.