Niedźwiedzkie (Prostki)

Niedźwiedzkie
	Niedźwiedzkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 44 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '37 "  N , 22 ° 22' 47"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 65 : ( Russia -) Gołdap - Olecko - Ełk ↔ Grajewo - Białystok - Bobrowniki (- Belarus )
	1868N: Borki - Borki - Miechowo → Niedźwiedzkie
	1870N: Prostki - Ostrykół - Lipińskie Małe ↔ Miłusze - Sokółki
Rail route :	Korsze – Ełk – Białystok train station: Lipińskie Małe
Next international airport :	Danzig

Niedźwiedzkie ( German  Niedzwetzken , 1936 to 1945 Wiesengrund (East Prussia) ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Niedźwiedzkie is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Founded Niedzwetzken (after 1818: Niedzwiedzken until 1936 Niedzwetzken ) in 1509 and consisted of a few yards in addition to a nationally significant brick .

From 1874 to 1945 the village was in the District Ostrokollen (1938-1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in district Elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen : (from 1905 Region of Olsztyn in) Prussian province of East Prussia incorporated.

In 1910 there were 109 residents in Niedzwetzken, and in 1933 there were already 149 residents.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Niedzwetzken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Niedzwetzken, 100 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 26, 1936, the village was renamed "Wiesengrund (East Prussia)". In 1939 the population was 142.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Niedźwiedzkie". Today he is assigned to the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Miłusze (Mylussen , 1938 to 1945 Milussen) and thus belongs to the association of Gmina Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship Masuria belonging.

Religions

Before 1945, Niedzwetzken resp. Wiesengrund in the Protestant Church Ostrokollen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Niedźwiedzkie belongs to the church in Ostrykół ( German  Ostrokollen , 1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade ) within the Prostki parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish Ełk (German Lyck ) in the parish Pisz (Johannisburg) within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Niedźwiedzkie is located on the important Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ), which crosses the eastern Masuria from the Polish-Russian border in a north-south direction and leads to the Polish-Belarusian border. The side road 1868N ends from Borki (Gmina Ełk) and Borki (Gmina Prostki) (Borken ) in Niedźwiedzkie. The side road 1870N from Prostki via Lipińskie Małe (Lipinsken , 1935 to 1945 Lindenfließ) to Sokółki (Sokolken , 1938 to 1945 Stahnken) runs through Niedźwiedzkie.

Lipińskie Małe is the next station on the Głomno – Białystok railway line , which is only used regularly between Korsze (Korschen) and Białystok.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 811
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wiesengrund
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ostrokollen / Scharfenrade district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
5. ^ ^{A b} 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). 
6. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 85
7. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494