Koziki (Ełk)

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Koziki (Poland)
Koziki
Koziki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 49 ′  N , 22 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 ′ 31 ″  N , 22 ° 29 ′ 56 ″  E
Residents : 31 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-301
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Kałęczyny ↔ Sordachy
Rail route : Ełk – Turowo railway line of Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa (tourist traffic)
Railway station: Kałęczyny
Next international airport : Danzig



Koziki ( German  Kozycken , 1935 to 1945 Selmenthöhe ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Koziki is located on the south bank of the Great Sellmentsee ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, ten kilometers east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Which at the time Koszycken after 1785 Koszicken after 1818 Kotzyken , after 1871 Koszycken and until 1935 Kozycken called village was founded 1484th

Vonn 1874-1945 was in the District Selment based in the small village of Klein Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ) integrated, the - 1938 in "District Schönhorst (Ostpr.)" Renamed - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 a total of 149 inhabitants were registered in Kozycken. Their number decreased to 138 by 1933. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Kozycken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or to join Poland from. In Kozycken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On August 31, 1935, Kozycken was renamed "Selmenthöhe". The population was 109 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Koziki”. The place belongs to the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Sordachy (Sordachen , 1938 to 1945 Sorden) and forms a village within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship assigned.

Religions

Until 1945 Kozycken was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Koziki belongs to the Catholic parish Regielnica (Regelitzen , 1938 to 1945 Regelhof) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in Ełk , a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Koziki loves a side street that leads from Kałęczyny (Kallenszynnen , 1938 to 1945 Lenzendorf) to Sordachy (Sordachen , 1938 to 1945 Sorden) .

The nearest train station is Kałęczyny on the Ełk – Turowo railway line ( German  Lyck – Thurowen / Auersberg ) of the Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa - the former Lyck small railways .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 526
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sellmenthöhe
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Selment / Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ^ A b 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).
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 84
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
  9. ↑ Kozycken
  10. ^ Parafia Regielnica in the Diocese of Ełk