Chełchy (Kowale Oleckie)

Chełchy
	Chełchy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '2 "  N , 22 ° 22' 42"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 ↔ Szeszki / Góra Szeska
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
	Warsaw

Chełchy [ ˈxɛu̯xɨ ] ( German  Chelchen , 1938–1945 Vorbergen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938–1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Chełchy is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the southern foothills of the Seesker Höhe ( Wzgórza Szeskie in Polish ). The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) is 16 kilometers to the south-east.

history

The small village called Chelchen at the time was founded in 1564. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the Kowahlen district ( Polish: Kowale Oleckie ), which - renamed Reimannswalde in 1939 - to the Oletzko district - Treuburg district from 1933–1945 - belonged to the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Chelchen had 238 inhabitants. Their number changed only slightly to 237 by 1933 and was only 212 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, 226 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names, Chelchen was renamed Vorbergen on June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16, 1938) . As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 and has been called Chełchy ever since . Today it is part of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

The majority Protestant population of Chelchen before 1945 was parish in the parish of the church Schareyken (1938-1945 Schareiken, Polish Szarejki ), which belonged to the church district Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Protestant church members living in Chełchy today are assigned to the parish in Suwałki (with a branch church in Gołdap ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Before 1945 the Catholic church members belonged to the parish church in Marggrabowa / Treuburg in the Diocese of Warmia , today they are integrated into the newly established parish in Kowale Oleckie . It is part of one of the two deaneries in Olecko and belongs to the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Chełchy is on a side road that goes from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938–1945 Reimannswalde) - on the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) - to Szeszki (Seesken) and on to Seesker Berg ( Polish Góra Szeska ), the At 309 meters, it is the third highest mountain in northern Poland, located in the south of the Seesker Höhe .

A railway connection existed until 1993 via the station in Kowale Oleckie on the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) railway line , which is no longer in operation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia : Vorbergen (2005)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Kowahlen / Reimannswalde
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
4. ^ 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). 
5. ↑ 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. 63.
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.