Okrągłe (Wydminy)

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Okrągłe
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Okrągłe (Poland)
Okrągłe
Okrągłe
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '48 "  N , 21 ° 59' 33"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Talki - Skomack Mały ↔ Odoje
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Okrągłe [ ɔˈkrɔnɡwɛ ] ( German  Okrongeln , 1938 to 1945 Schwansee (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Okrągłe is located on the west bank of Lake Okrongelner (1938 to 1945 Swan Lake , Jezioro Okrągłe in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Up to the district town Giżycko (Lötzen ) it is 23 kilometers in a north-westerly direction.

history

The small village, called Okrongeln until 1938 , was founded in 1495 and consisted of several large and small farms.

From 1874 to 1945 the place was incorporated into the district of Groß Konopken ( Polish: Konopki Wielkie ), which - renamed in 1938 to "District of Hanffen" - belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . During the same period, Okrongeln was also included in the Groß Konopken registry office .

96 inhabitants were registered in 1910 in Okrongeln. Their number rose to 129 by 1933 and in 1939 - the place was called "Schwansee (Ostpr.)" Since 1938 - 99.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Okrongeln belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Okrongeln, 80 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

In 1945 the village came to Poland as a result of the war with the whole of southern East Prussia and has since been known as "Okrągłe" in Polish. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a district of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945, Okrongeln resp. Schwansee parish in the Protestant Church Milken (Polish Miłki) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Okrągłe belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a branch of the Giżycko parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and the Catholic Church in Talki , a branch church of the Zelki (Neuhoff) parish in the Ełk (Lyck) diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Okrągłe is located a little away from the traffic on a side street that connects Talki (Talken) and Skomack Mały (Klein Skomatzko , 1938 to 1945 Skomand) with the village of Odoje (Odoyen , 1938 to 1945 Nickelsberg) , which is already in Gmina Orzysz .

Until 2009/10 Odoje was the closest train station on the Czerwonka – Ełk (Rothfließ – Lyck) line , which is no longer in operation today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 845
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schwansee (Ostpr.)
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Konopken / Hanffen
  4. ↑ a b c okrongels
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (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. 81
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492