Leleszki

Leleszki
	Leleszki
	Leleszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Szczytno
Gmina :	Pasym
Geographic location :	53 ° 38 ' N , 20 ° 50' E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '6 " N , 20 ° 49' 33" E
Residents :	262 (2011)
Postal code :	12-130
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NSZ
Economy and Transport
Street :	Pasym - DK 53 → branch Leleszki ← Grom
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk railway line Stations ; : Pasym and Grom
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Leleszki ( German Lehlesken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Pasym (urban and rural community Passenheim ) in the Powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ).

Geographical location

Leleszki is located on the south bank of Lake Lehlesk ( Jezioro Leleszkie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 13 kilometers northwest of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ).

View of the Jezioro Leleszkie

Entrance to Leleszki

history

The village, called Lehleschken after 1785 and Lelesken after 1820 , was founded in 1381 and was one of the oldest religious settlements in the Ortelsburg district. The founding privilege dates to March 21, 1381. The estate owned by Heinrich von Salza was assigned to the Colonel Burgrave of Königsberg , Christoph von Kreutz , on July 27, 1560 . The goods in Lehlesken changed hands repeatedly in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1653 Lehlesken was mentioned as a " cöllmisches village" with 14 hosts.

Between 1874 and 1945 Lehlesken was in the District Nareythen (Polish Narajty ) in the East Prussian district Szczytno incorporated. In 1910 there were 431 residents registered in the village. Their number was 422 in 1933 and 365 in 1939.

Lehlesken came in 1945 in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Leleszki". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamts (Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Pasym (Passenheim) in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship based in Olsztyn (Allenstein) belonging. In 2011 Leleszki had 262 inhabitants.

church

Wayside shrine in Leleszki

Until 1945 Lehlesken was parish in the Protestant Church of Passenheim in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and also in the Roman Catholic church of the city in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Leleszki belongs to the Evangelical Church Pasym in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Church in Grom (Grammen) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .

school

The village school in Lehlesken went on a foundation by King Friedrich Wilhelm I return. In 1939 two classes were taught here.

traffic

Leleszki is half a kilometer north of the Polish state road 53 (formerly German Reichsstraße 134 ) in a junction between Pasym (Passenheim) and Grom (Grammen) . Pasym and Grom are also the nearest train stations and are on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line .

Web links

Commons : Leleszki - collection of images, videos and audio files

Historical recordings from Lehlesken:

Individual evidence

[wies-1] Wieś Leleszki w liczbach (Polish)

[2] Polish Postal Code Directory 2013 , p. 644 (Polish)

[3] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Lehlesken

[Ortelsburg-4] Lehlesken at the Ortelsburg district community

[5] Rol Jehke, District Nareythen

[6] Uli Schubert, community directory, Ortelsburg district

[7] Michael Rademacher, local book, Ortelsburg district

[8] Sołectwa Gminy Pasym (Polish)

[9] strict Szczytno at AGoFF