Glinki (Prostki)

Glinki
	Glinki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 ′  N , 22 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 41 ″  N , 22 ° 20 ′ 13 ″  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-326
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kobylinek ↔ Borki / 1868N
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Glinki ( German  Glinken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Glinki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Of the then Dzydzuschen after 1785 Glinnen , 1885 Noble Glinken and then Glinken called town was founded in 1529 and consisted of a good with small farms. In 1874 the village was incorporated into the newly established Gorczitzen District ( Gorczyce in Polish ), which a few years later was renamed the Borken District ( Borki in Polish ). It belonged to 1945 the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 a total of 80 inhabitants were registered in Glinken. Their number rose to 94 by 1933 and was still 68 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Glinken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Glinken, 60 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name Glinki . Today it is the seat of a school office ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the association of Gmina Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Glinken was parish in the Protestant Church Ostrokollen (1938-1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) 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 in Lyck (Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Glinki Catholic side belongs to the parish Prostki (Prostken) with the branch churches in Sokółki (Sokolken , 1938–1945 Stahnken) and Ostrykół (Ostrokollen , 1938–1945 Scharfenrade) within the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish in the district town Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Glinki is on a side road that connects Kobylinek ( Kobylinnen village , 1938–1945 Kobilinnen ) with Borki (Borken) . There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 298
2. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Glinken
3. ↑ Glinken (District of Lyck)
4. ↑ 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). 
5. ↑ 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. 83.
6. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 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. 
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494.