Dunajek (Świętajno)

Dunajek
	Dunajek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 22 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '28 "  N , 22 ° 17' 54"  E
Residents :	181 (2006)
Postal code :	19-411
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 655 : ( Giżycko -) Kąp - Wydminy ↔ Olecko - Suwałki - Rutka-Tartak
	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 - Sokółki - Cichy → Dunajek
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Dunajek ( German  Duneyken , 1938–1945 Duneiken ) is a small village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Dunajek is located between Lake Chelcher (1938–1945 Kelchener See , Polish Jezioro Chełchy ) and Mulsee (1938–1945 Bruchsee , Polish Jezioro Mulisty ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 13 kilometers west of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928–1945 Treuburg) .

history

The after 1777 Dunayken after 1818 Düneyken and until 1938 Duneyken village called was founded 1575th On May 27, 1874, it became Amtsdorf and thus gave its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and belonged to the Oletzko district (1933–1945 Treuburg district ) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The manor at Duneyker See (1938–1945 Duneiker See , Jezioro Dunajek in Polish ) was built in the 19th century. It was enlarged in 1908 and received an Art Nouveau decor. At the end of the 19th century, Gustav Behr was the owner of Gut Duneyken.

In 1910 Duneyken had 426 inhabitants. The property changed hands, first Max Förster , then the Nagel family . It was heavily indebted in the 1920s and 1930s and was z. T. settled. At last it was 300 hectares.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Duneyken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Duneyken, 308 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the manor district of Chelchen (in Polish: Chełchy ) was incorporated into Duneyken, so that the population increased to 572 by 1933 and was still 528 in 1939. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, the name spelling was Germanized in accordance with the prevailing political ideology in Duneiken .

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of name Dunajek . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a village in the network of the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933–1945 Treuburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

After 1945 the manor house took possession of a state estate and housed several families here. Today it belongs to the State Agency for Agricultural Real Estate ( Agencja Własności Rolnej Skarbin Państwa - AWRSP), which leased the remnants of the former estate.

District of Duneyken / Duneiken (1874–1945)

The district of Duneyken / Duneiken originally consisted of four, in the end only two villages due to structural changes:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Chelchen	Goblets	Chełchy	1928 incorporated into Duneyken
Doliwen (village)			before 1931 incorporated into the Doliwen manor district
Doliwen (Good)	Teichwalde (East Pr.)	Doliwy	1928 converted into a "rural community"
Duneyken	Duneiken	Dunajek

On January 1, 1945, Duneiken and Teichwalde were still part of the Duneiken district.

Religions

Until 1945 Duneyken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church Marggrabowa (1928–1945 Treuburg , Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, for Dunajek the closest Protestant church in Wydminy (Wydminy) , a filial community of the parish Giżycko (Giżycko) in the Diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . The Catholic church members belong to the parish church Świętajno in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Dunajek is conveniently located on the voivodship road DW 655 , which connects the Giżycko (Lötzen) and Olecko (Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg) regions with the Suwałki region in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . From Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938–1945 Reimannswalde) a side road also leads directly to Dunajek.

There is no longer a train connection. Until 1945 Gryzy (Griesen) was the next station on the railway line Kruglanken - Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg ( Polish Kruklanki - Olecko ), the operation of which was stopped due to the effects of the war.

Connected to the place

• Peter Jokostra (1912–2007), German writer and literary critic, worked as an apprentice at Gut Duneyken in the 1930s , which he describes in his memories of homesickness for Masuria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 237
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Duneiken
3. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke: District Duneyken / Duneiken
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dunajek - Duneyken / Duneiken
5. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
6. ↑ 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.
7. ^ 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). 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Duneyken (district of Oletzko)
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.