Jelitki

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Jelitki (Poland)
Jelitki
Jelitki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Wieliczki
Geographic location : 53 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '25 "  N , 22 ° 32' 39"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-404
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Gąski / DK 65 - Kijewo ↔ Guty
Rail route : Ełk – Olecko (only sporadic freight traffic)
Railway station: Kijewo
Next international airport : Danzig



Jelitki ( German  Jelittken , 1938 to 1945 Gelitten ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Jelitki is located in the east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) .

history

In 1486 which at the time was Gelittken before 1785 Jelitzken , after 1871 Jelitken and until 1938 Jelittken called small village founded. It consisted of several large courtyards. From 1874 to 1945 it was incorporated into the administrative district of Nordenthal ( Polish: Nory ), which - renamed in 1938 to the “administrative district of Nordental” - belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Jelittken registered 122 inhabitants in 1910. Their number decreased to 107 by 1933 and was only 95 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Jelittken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Jelittken, 75 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, Jelittken was renamed "Gelitten" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

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 "Jelitki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a village in the Gmina Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), before 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then the voivodeship Warmia-Masuria belonging.

Religions

Until 1945 Jelittken was parish in the Evangelical Church of Wielitzken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Jelitki belongs to the parish Wieliczki with the branch church Kleszczewo (Kleszöwen , 1936 to 1938 Kleschöwen , 1938 to 1945 Kleschen) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the churches in Ełk (Lyck) or Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Jelitki can be reached from the important Polish national road DK 65 (former German Reichsstrasse 132 ) on a side road that leads from Gąski (Gonsken) via Kijewo (Kiöwen) to Guty (Gutten) . Kijewo is the next train station on the Ełk – Olecko railway line , a section of the former Lyck – Insterburg railway line, which is only used irregularly by freight traffic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 397
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gelitten
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Nordenthal / Nordental
  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. 64
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484