Lelek (Mikołajki)

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Lelek (Poland)
Lelek
Lelek
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mikołajki
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 21 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '46 "  N , 21 ° 35' 47"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-730
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 642 : Woźnice / DK16 ↔ Zielony Lasek - Ryn - Sterławki Wielkie / ext. 592
Tałty → Lelek
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Lelek ( German  Julienthal ) is a place in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural municipality Mikołajki ( German  Nikolaiken ) in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ).

Geographical location

Lelek is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 20 kilometers east of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ).

history

Today's Lelek was called as a former manor before 1785 Lelecken , after 1785 dismantling Talten and was renamed on May 11, 1822 in "Julienthal". In 1834 Julienthal was mentioned as a Köllmisches Gut with two fireplaces.

In 1874, the small village in the newly built was District Wosnitzen ( Polish Woźnice ) incorporated, which - until 1945 - 1938 "District July courtyards" renamed Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged . In 1839 Julienthal still had 36 inhabitants, by 1910 there were 48.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Julienthal belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Julienthal, 20 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

On September 30, 1928 Julienthal gave up his independence and was incorporated into the neighboring community of Wosnitzen (1938 to 1945 Julienhöfen , Polish Woźnice ) together with Gut Klein Grabnick ( Grabnik Mały in Polish ).

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Julienthal was also affected. It received the Polish name form "Lelek" and is now a place within the urban and rural community Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Julienthal was parish in the Protestant parish church Nikolaiken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and also in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Lelek is still part of the parish of Mikołajki , which is now part of the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Lelek is oriented towards Tałty (Talten) , a branch of the St. Nicholas parish in Mikołajki in the Ełk diocese in the Polish Catholic Church .

traffic

Lelek is located on Voivodship Road 642 , which connects the traffic routes Landesstraße 16 ( Woźnice , German Wosnitzen , 1938 to 1945 Julienhöfen ) and Landesstraße 59 ( Ryn , Rhein ) as well as Voivodship road 592 ( Sterławki Wielkie , Groß Stürlack ). Of Tałty (Talten) from also performs a side road to Lelek. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 644
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Julienthal
  3. ↑ a b c Julienthal (district Sensburg) at GenWiki
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Wosnitzen / Julienhöfen district
  5. ↑ 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. 113
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 501