Lega (Ełk)

Lega
	Lega
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 22 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '23 "  N , 22 ° 27' 54"  E
Residents :	327 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-311
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sędki / DK 16 ↔ Chełchy - Kijewo
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Lega ( German  Leegen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Lega is located on the same river Lega in the east of Warmia and Mazury eight kilometers northeast of the county seat Elk (Lyck) .

history

After a previous destruction, the small village that was then called Adlig Leegen until 1871, was re-established in 1516 with a festival . It consisted of a domain and three courtyards.

In 1874 Leegen came to the newly established District Selment based in small Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ) in district Elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Divided into the town of Leegen and Gut Leegen, the village had a total of 176 inhabitants in 1910, 110 of whom lived in the manor district.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Leegen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Leegen, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On January 1, 1929, the rural communities Leegen and Sentken ( Polish: Sędki ) and the manor districts Leegen, Lycker Forst merged with the rural community Ropehlen (from the district of Pisanitzen (Polish Pisanica )) to form the new rural community Sentken.

In 1945 Leegen came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and has since been the Polish form of the name "Lega". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Leegen was parish in the Protestant 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 Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Lega belongs to the Catholic parish Chełchy ( German  Chelchen , 1938 to 1945 Kelchendorf ) with a branch church in Sędki (Sentken) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Lega is from the Polish national road 16 from Sedki (Sentken) in the direction Kijewo (Kiöwen) to reach.

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. 641
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Leegen
4. ↑ ^{a b} Leegen (District of Lyck)
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Selment / Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
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. 85
8. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Pisanitzen / Ebenfelde district
9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
11. ↑ Parafia Chełchy in the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.