Lepaki Małe

Lepaki Małe
	Lepaki Małe
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 50 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '52 "  N , 22 ° 14' 29"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Chrzanowo / ext. 656 - Bienie ↔ Lepaki Wielkie - Mołdzie
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Lepaki Małe ( German  Klein Lepacken , 1938 to 1945 Kleinramecksfelde ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Lepaki Małe is located on the east bank of the Klein Lepacker See (1938 to 1945 Kleinramecksfelder See , Jezioro Lepaki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eight kilometers west of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Klein Lepacken was founded in the 16th century and consisted of a few small farms.

In 1874 it was in the newly established District grave Nick ( Polish Grabnik ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. Around 1893, Klein Lepacken was incorporated into Groß Lepacken ( Lepaki Wielkie in Polish ), which was then called “Lepacken” (without any additions) until it was renamed “Ramecksfelde” in 1938 - and accordingly Klein Lepacken was also renamed “Kleinramecksfelde”. In 1910, Klein Lepacken had 39 inhabitants.

As a result of the war, Klein Lepacken (Kleinramecksfelde) came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia . With the Polish form of the name "Lepaki Małe", the place became independent again.

Today he is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Lepaki with its seat in Lepaki Wielkie and forms a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated.

Religions

Until 1945, Klein Lepacken resp. Kleinramecksfelde in the Protestant Church Grabnick in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Lepaki Małe belongs to the Catholic parish Grabnik (with the branch church in Woszczele ) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members keep to the parish in the district town of Ełk, a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities

Memorial stone for Michael Pogorzelski in Lepaki Małe

The popular preacher and poet Michael Pogorzelski was born in Lepacken (large ~, small ~?) On September 4th, 1737 . From 1772 to 1780 he was rector in Kutten ( Polish: Kuty ) and then pastor in Kallinowen (Kalinowo) until his death in 1798 . Paul Fechter dedicated the book The Sorcerer of God to him .

A memorial stone in Lepaki Małe commemorates this important local son.

traffic

Lepaki Małe is located on a side road that branches off from Voivodship Road 656 near Chrzanowo (Chrzanowen , 1933 to 1945 Kalkofen) and leads via Bienie (Bienien , 1938 to 1945 Binien) to Mołdzie (Moldzien , 1938 to 1945 Mulden) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 646
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Kleinramecksfelde
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabnick District
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Klein Lepacken
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493