Lakiele

Lakiele
	Lakiele
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '2 "  N , 22 ° 26' 38"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Voivodeship street ext . 652 : Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 ↔ Mieruniszki - Filipów - Suwałki
	Pogorzel / DK 65 - Borkowiny → Lakiele
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Kaunas (lit.)

Lakiele ( German  Lakellen , 1938 to 1945 Schönhofen (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district) .

Geographical location

Lakiele is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the east bank of the Jarke ( Jarka in Polish ). It is six kilometers to the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship and eight kilometers to the former German-Polish border. The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is 15 kilometers to the south.

history

The village called Schudlitzki at the time was founded in 1566. In the following years it had different names such as Zudna-Schedliski (before 1785), Lackellen (after 1785) and Schönhoffstädt (before 1803).

On May 27, 1874, Lakellen became the official seat and thus gave its name to an administrative district , which - renamed "Official District Schönhofen (Ostpr.)" On September 13, 1938 - existed until 1945 and became the Oletzko district - from 1933 to 1945 called " Landkreis Treuburg " - belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia in the administrative district of Gumbinnen .

In 1910, 602 residents were registered in Lakellen. Their number rose to 615 by 1933 and was only 531 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Lakellen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Lakellen, 471 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

For political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names, Lakellen was renamed "Schönhofen (Ostpr.)" On June 3, 1938. As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has since borne the Polish name form “Lakiele”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

District Lakellen / Schönhofen (Ostpr.), 1874–1945

The Lakellen district (from 1938 "Schönhofen District (Ostpr.)") Included three villages:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Borkowinnen	Jarken	Borkowiny
Cut		Kucze
Lakelles	Schönhofen (East Pr.)	Lakiele

Religions

Before 1945 the population of Lakellen was predominantly of Protestant denomination and was parish in the parish of the church in Schareyken (1938 to 1945 Schareiken , Polish: Szarejki ) in the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the - numerically few - Protestant church members in Lakiele belong to the parish in Suwałki (with a branch parish Gołdap ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

On the Catholic side , there was a bond with the parish in Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945: Treuburg, Polish Olecko ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today the village is incorporated into the newly established parish in Kowale Oleckie , which is part of the Deanery Olecko -Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny in the diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland .

Personalities

• Paul Salitter (born December 15, 1898 in Lakellen, † January 8, 1972 in Düsseldorf), German police officer

traffic

Lakiele is conveniently located on the Polish voivodship road DW 652 (former German Reichsstraße 137 ), which connects the two major traffic axes Landesstraße 65 and Landesstraße 8 and thus serves as a bridge between the two Voivodeships of Warmia-Masuria and Podlachia .

There is no longer a train connection. Until 1945 the small neighboring town of Drosdowen (1938 to 1945: Drosten, Polish Drozdowo ) was a train station on the Treuburg – Garbassen line of the Treuburger Kleinbahnen , until 1993 Kowale Oleckie offered a rail connection to the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) line , which is no longer available today is operated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schönhofen (Ostpr.)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Lakellen / Schönhofen District (East Pr.)
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
4. ^ 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). 
5. ↑ 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. 65
6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484