Czerwonka (Stare Juchy)

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Czerwonka
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Czerwonka (Poland)
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Czerwonka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Stare Juchy
Geographic location : 53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '7 "  N , 22 ° 14' 4"  E
Residents : 52 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-330
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : West branch from Woszczele / DW 656 - Bałamutowo street
Rail route : Korsze – Białystok
train station: Woszczele
Next international airport : Danzig



Czerwonka ( German  Czerwonken , 1932–1945 Rotbach ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina rural community Stare Juchy ((old) Jucha , 1938–1945 Fließdorf) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Czerwonka is east of the Great Sawinda Lake (1938-1945 Great Margensee , Polish Jezioro Sawinda Wielka ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers northwest of the district town of Ełk ( German  Lyck ).

history

The small village called Czerwoncken before 1785 , Rothfließ around 1810 and Czerwonken until 1932 was founded in 1548. In the period from 1874 to 1945 was in the District grave Nick (Polish Grabnik ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In addition, it was assigned to the Grabnick registry office during the same period . In 1910, 250 inhabitants were registered here.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Czerwonken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Czerwonken, 180 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On November 19, 1932, Czerwonken was renamed Rotbach . The number of inhabitants was 249 in 1933 and 238 in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , all of southern East Prussia and with it the village of Rotbach became part of Poland in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name Czerwonka . Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the rural community Stare Juchy ((Alt) Jucha , 1938-1945 Fließdorf) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Religions

Before 1945 Czerwonken was parish in the Protestant Church Grabnick in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Czerwonka belongs to the Roman Catholic parish Grabnik in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk, a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Cuerwonka branches off in a westerly direction from a side road that leads from Woszczele (Woszczellen / Woszellen , 1938–1945 Neumalken) on Voivodship Road 656 to Bałamutowo (Ballamutowen , 1934–1945 Giersfelde) . Woszczele is also the nearest train station and is on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .

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. 183
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rotbach
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Grabnick
  5. ↑ a b Czerwonken at GenWiki
  6. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Lyck
  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. 83
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ Gmina Stare Juchy: Wyzak Sołectw i Sołtysów
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.