Gmina Olecko

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Gmina Olecko
Coat of arms of Olecko
Gmina Olecko (Poland)
Gmina Olecko
Gmina Olecko
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '0 "  N , 22 ° 30' 0"  E
Residents : s. Gmina
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : DK65 Ełk - Gołdap
DW655 Giżycko - Suwałki
DW653 Sedranki - Sejny
Rail route : -
Next international airport : Warsaw
Danzig
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 34 school authorities
Surface: 266.6 km²
Residents: 22,057
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 83 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2813043
Administration (as of 2014)
Mayor : Karol Sobczak
Address: pl. Wolności 3
19-400 Olecko
Website : www.olecko.pl



The Gmina Olecko [ ɔˈlɛtskɔ ] is a town-and-country municipality in the Powiat Olecki of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland . The seat of the powiat and the municipality is the city ​​of the same name ( German Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928–1945 Treuburg ) with about 16,500 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the municipality
School authorities of Gmina Olecko (as of 2015)

The municipality is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, where it borders on the Podlaskie Voivodeship . The city of Elk (Lyck) located 12 kilometers south-west. Neighboring communities are in Podlachien Filipów and Bakałarzewo in the northeast; in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Wieliczki and Kalinowo in the southeast, Ełk in the southwest, Świętajno in the west and Kowale Oleckie in the north.

The community has an area of ​​266.6 km², 69 percent of which is used for agriculture and 16 percent for forestry. There are a variety of small and medium-sized lakes. The five largest are Jezioro Oleckie Wielkie (227 hectares , Big Oletzkoer Lake ), Olecko Małe (223 hectares, Klein Oletzkoer Lake ), Jezioro Dobskie (153 hectares), Jezioro Sedraneckie (78 hectares, Sedranki Lake ) and Zajdy (57 hectares) . The most important flowing water is the Lega .

history

The rural community was newly formed in 1973 from various gromadas . Urban and rural communities were merged to form urban and rural communities in 1990/1991. Your area belonged to the Białystok Voivodeship from 1946 to 1975 and then to the Suwałki Voivodeship until 1998 . The powiat was disbanded from 1975 to 1998. On January 1, 1999, the community came to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and again to the Powiat Olecki.

structure

The town itself and 33 villages (German names, official until 1945) with 34 school offices (sołectwo) belong to the town and country municipality of Olecko :

Smaller villages and hamlets in the municipality are:

traffic

The state road DK65 runs in a north-south direction from Gołdap (Goldap) (border crossing to Gussew , Kaliningrad Oblast ) to Gródek (border crossing to Belarus ). From Sedranki , the DW653 voivodship road branches off to Suwałki (Suwalken) and Sejny . The DW655 runs from Giżycko (Lötzen) via Olecko to Suwałki.

The nearest international airports are Gdansk and Warsaw .

The Olecko – Suwałki and Gołdap – Ełk lines are currently only used for freight traffic.

Web links

Commons : Gmina Olecko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. The Historical Place Directory.
  3. olecko.wm.pl: Burmistrz spotkał się z sołtysami gminy Olecko. (Polish, as of 2019-2023; accessed August 11, 2020)