Sokółki (Kowale Oleckie)

Sokółki
	Sokółki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 8 '  N , 22 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '40 "  N , 22 ° 19' 12"  E
Residents :	250 (2006)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / ext. 65 ↔ Cichy - Dunajek / ext. 655
	Stożne - Kilianki ↔ Sokółki
	Czerwony Dwór - Zawady Oleckie ↔ Sokółki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sokółki ( German  Sokolken , 1938 to 1945 Halldorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Sokółki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

The former village of Sockollcken was founded on January 29, 1564 as a farming village . At that time, Duke Albrecht of Prussia, through governor Lohrentz von Halle , also known as Reinke , prescribed four hooves and 40 hooves for the Mareg Sokoll with interest farmers.

After 1785 Sokollken and until 1938 called Sokolken , the place was incorporated into the newly established district of Statzen ( Stacze in Polish ) in 1874, which existed until 1945 and to the Oletzko district - called "Treuburg district" from 1933 to 1945 - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 516 registered residents in Sokolken. Their number decreased to 424 by 1933 and was still 366 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sokolken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sokolken, 409 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) in 1938, Sokolken was renamed “Halldorf” for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. Seven years later, the village came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish form of the name "Sokółki". Between 1973 and 1976 the village was the seat of the independent Gmina Sokółki, is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a district of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in the Powiat Olecki , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Sokolken or Halldorfs was parish in the parish of the church in Czychen (1938 to 1945: Bolken, Polish Cichy ), which belonged to the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The Catholic church members were oriented towards Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945: Treuburg, Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sokółki lies in the newly established parish of Cichy , whose former Protestant church is now a Catholic parish church. A newly built subsidiary church in Sokółki belongs to it, which is incorporated with the mother church in one of the two deaneries in Olecko in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The church in Sokółki bears the consecrated name of Maximilian Kolbe ( Kościół św. Maksymiliana Kolbe ). Protestant church members living here belong to the parish in Gołdap (Goldap) , a branch parish of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

A new school building was built in Sokolken in 1924. The school was initially single-class, then later two-class.

traffic

Sokółki was and is not connected to the rail network. There are three roads leading into the village, of which the side road from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) to Dunajek (Duneyken , 1938 to 1945 Duneiken) is the most important, as it is the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) connects with the voivodship road DW 655 . From the east a side street from Stożne (Stoosznen , 1938 to 1945 Stosnau) ends in Sokółki, from the west one from Czerwony Dwór (Rothebude) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Halldorf
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Location information on Sokolken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Statzen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ 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). 
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. 66
7. ↑ Parish Cichy on the website of the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 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.