Jelonek (Świętajno)

Jelonek
	Jelonek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Świętajno
Geographic location :	54 ° 3 '  N , 22 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '38 "  N , 22 ° 12' 33"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-411
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Orłowo - Gajrowskie → Jelonek
	Wronki → Jelonek
	Jelonek → Jelonek
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Jelonek ( German  Grünheyde , 1938 to 1945 Grünheide ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Świętajno (Schwentainen) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

The village of Jelonek is located in the north-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 20 kilometers west of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , Treuburg from 1928 to 1945 ) .

history

Under the name Zielonken , before 1785 Grün Heyde , after 1785 Grünheyde , the village called Grünheide from 1938 to 1945 was founded in 1709 as a Schatulldorf . In 1785 there were 17 and in 1818 there were already 26 fireplaces with 138 inhabitants.

In 1874 Grünheyde was incorporated into the newly established Wessolowen District (1938 to 1945 Kleinfronicken, Wesołowo in Polish), which - in 1938 renamed “ Fronicken District ” ( Wronken until 1938 , Wronki in Polish) - existed until 1945 and became the Oletzko District (1933 to 1945 "Kreis Treuburg") in the administrative district Gumbinnen belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

The villages of Forsthaus Grünheyde and Klein Grünheyde were incorporated into the rural community of Grünheyde . The total population in 1910 was 212, in 1933 it was 230 and in 1939 it was 212 again.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Grünheyde belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Grünheyde, 180 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the village, officially written as Grünheide from June 3, 1938 , came with all of East Prussia to Poland and was given the Polish name "Jelonek". Under the same name, the former district of Forsthaus Grünheide was made independent as Jelonek (Polish leśniczówka = "forestry") and assigned to Gmina Kruklanki (Kruglanken) m Powiat Giżycki (district of Lötzen ), while the village itself became part of Gmina Świętajno (Schwentainen) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ). If this was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship before 1998 , it has since been included in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Before 1945, Grünheyde was parish in the Evangelical Church of Orlowen (1938 to 1945 Adlersdorf, Polish Orłowo) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church in Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg, Polish Olecko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Jelonek belongs to the Catholic parish church of Wydminy in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and to the Polish Orthodox Church in Orłowo , a branch church of the parish of Giżycko in the diocese of Białystok-Gdańsk , or to the Evangelical parish in Wydminy (Widminnen ) , a branch of the parish church Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Jelonek, itself located in the Powiat Olecki , is connected to the neighboring towns by side roads or country roads: with Wronki (Wronken , 1938 to 1945 Fronicken) , also located in the Powiat Olecki, and with Orłowo (Orlowen , 1938 to 1945 Adlersdorf) and Jelonek ( Grünheyde , 1938 to 1945 Grünheide, Forst) , which belong to the Giżycki powiat . There is no longer a railway connection since the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa (Oletzko) / Treuburg railway was no longer operated due to the war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 397
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Grünheide
3. ↑ ^{a b} Grünheyde (Oletzko district)
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Wessolowen / Fronicken district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
6. ^ 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). 
7. ↑ 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
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492