Lesk (Olecko)

Lesk (district and village)
	Lesk (district and village)
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	54 ° 1 '  N , 22 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '17 "  N , 22 ° 30' 45"  E
Residents :	165 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Olecko → Lesk
Rail route :	Ełk – Olecko (freight only) Railway station: Olecko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Lesk ( German  Legahof ) is the same name of two neighboring villages in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . They belong to the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

The two places called Lesk are in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, one and two kilometers south of the district town of Olecko . The Lega river forms a border between the two villages . While the northeastern town belongs to the city of Olecko ( Polish dzielnica miasta ), the southwestern town forms its own village ( wieś ).

history

The place called Legahof from January 1, 1927, was founded in the 19th century as a mining Korth . It consisted only of a large courtyard. Since its foundation, Legahof has been a residential area of the municipality and later town of Marggrabowa (Oletzko / Treuburg) in the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945 .

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish name "Lesk". Its north-eastern part became a district of Olecko , the south-western part became an independent village. Both the city of Olecko and the village of Lesk are now part of the urban and rural municipality of Olecko in the Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Legahof was parish in the Protestant church Marggrabowa as well as in the Catholic parish church of the district town.

Today both districts of Lesk belong to the Catholic parish church in Olecko in the Diocese of Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members orientate themselves towards the church in Ełk , a branch church of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

A side road leads from Olecko through the Lesk district, which then ends in the village of Lesk. To the northwest of both places there is a junction from the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk ( German  Lyck – Insterburg ) to the Olecko – Suwałki (Marggrabowa / Treuburg – Suwalken / Sudauen) railway , both of which, however, are no longer in operation for passenger traffic. The next train station is the one in Olecko , which is only used by goods traffic between Ełk and Olecko.

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. 646
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Legahof