Czaple (Ełk)

Czaple
	Czaple
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '48 "  N , 22 ° 27' 26"  E
Residents :	25 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-311
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Chełchy → Czaple
Rail route :	Ełk – Olecko (only sporadic freight traffic) Railway station: Chełchy
Next international airport :	Danzig

Czaple ( German  fidget ) is a small place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Czaple is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers northeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small town called Zaplen after 1818 and Zappeln until 1945 was founded in 1471. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was in the District Soffen ( Polish Krokocie ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Zappeln had 44 inhabitants. Their number rose to 66 by 1933 and amounted to 68 in 1939. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Zappeln belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Zappeln, 20 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

As a result of the war, Zappeln came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish form of name Czaple . Today the place is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938–1945 Kelchendorf) and thus part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship Masuria belonging.

Religions

Until 1945, Zappeln was parish in the Protestant Church Stradaunen ( Polish Straduny ) in the Church Province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck (Ełk) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Czaple belongs to the Catholic parish Straduny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members support the parish in Ełk , a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Czaple can be reached on a side street from Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938–1945 Kelchendorf) . Chełchy is also the nearest train station on the Ełk – Olecko railway line, which is only used sporadically by freight .

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. 169
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Zappeln
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Soffen
5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ↑ 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. 88
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494.
9. ↑ Fidget (District of Lyck)