Małkinie

Małkinie
	Małkinie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '58 "  N , 22 ° 14' 12"  E
Residents :	22 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Woszczele / ext. 656 → Małkinie
Rail route :	Korsze – Białystok train station: Woszczele
Next international airport :	Danzig

Małkinie ( German  Malkiehnen , 1938 to 1945 Malkienen ) 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

Małkinie is located on the west bank of the Woszczeller See (1938 to 1945 Neumalker See , Polish Jezioro Woszczelskie ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eight kilometers northwest of the town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Malkiehnen was founded in 1473 and consisted of a few small farms.

From 1874 to 1945, the village in the District was grave Nick ( Polish Grabnik ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Malkiehnen had 81 inhabitants. Their number rose to 92 by 1933 and was still 73 in 1939. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Malkienen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany ) or the connection to Poland. In Malkienen, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On June 3, 1938, the spelling of the place name was changed to "Malkienen".

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Małkinie". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Malkiehnen (Malkienen) was parish in the Protestant church Grabnick in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Małkinie belongs to the parish Grabnik with the branch church in Woszczele (Woszczellen / Woszellen , 1938 to 1945 Neumalken) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Małkinie can be reached from Provincial Road 656 , from which a road branches off in Woszczele , which leads to Małkinie. Woszczele is also the nearest train station and is on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .

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. 762
3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Malkienen
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabnick District
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
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. ↑ Gmina Ełk
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
10. ↑ Malkiehnen