Crococia

Krokocie also: Krokocie (Leśniczówka)
	Krokocie also: Krokocie (Leśniczówka)
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '59 "  N , 22 ° 24' 31"  E
Residents :	105 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-301
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Oracze / DK 65 - Miluki → Krokocie
	Przykopka → Krokocie
Rail route :	Ełk – Olecko (only sporadic freight traffic) Railway station: Przykopka
Next international airport :	Danzig

Krokocie ( German  Soffen ), also: Krokocie (Leśniczówka) are two localities in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belong to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

The village of Krokocie is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eight kilometers north of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) . The forest settlement ( Polish: Osada leśna ) Krokocie (Leśniczówka) is only one kilometer to the southwest .

history

The small village of Soffen was founded in 1471.

On May 27, 1874 was office Village and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

352 inhabitants were registered in Soffen in 1910. In 1933 their number was 348, in 1939 only 310. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Soffen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Soffen, 220 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

In the aftermath of the war, Soffen came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then it has borne the Polish name form Krokocie . Together with the forest settlement Krokocie (Leśniczówka) - about whose history nothing is documented and which was probably only created after 1945 - the village forms the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Krokocie. Thus, both localities are part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship and have been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since then .

District Soffen (1874–1945)

In the beginning eight villages were incorporated into the district of Soffen, in the end there were six due to structural changes:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Chelchen	Chalice village	Chełchy
Plotzitznen	Bunhausen	Płociczno
Przykopken	(from 1927 :) Birkenwalde	Przykopka
Cells	(from 1927 :) Peace at sea	Przytuły	before 1908 reclassified to the Stradaunen district
Rumeyken		Romejki
Rydzewen	Black Mountains	Rydzewo	before 1908 reclassified to the Stradaunen district
Drinking		Crococia
Fidget		Czaple

On January 1, 1945, Birkenwalde, Bunhausen, Kelchendorf, Rumeyken, Soffen and Zappeln belonged to the Soffen district.

Religions

Until 1945, Soffen belonged to the Protestant Church of Stradaunen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and to the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Krokocie and Krokocie (Leśniczówka) are parish in the Catholic parish Straduny in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk, a branch parish of the Pisz parish (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Krokocie can be reached from the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) via Oracze ( Oratzen / Szameiten , 1928 to 1945 Wittenwalde ) on a side road. A country road leads from Przykopka ( Przykopken , 1926 to 1945 Birkenwalde ) into the village.

The next train station is Przykopka on the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk ( German  Lyck – Insterburg ) railway line, which today is only used sporadically in the Ełk – Olecko section.

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. 620
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Soffen
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Soffen district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ 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. 87
8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
10. ↑ Soffen