Oracze (Ełk)

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Oracze
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Oracze (Poland)
Oracze
Oracze
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '12 "  N , 22 ° 20' 51"  E
Residents : 320 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-325
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 65 : ( Russia -) Gołdap - Olecko ↔ Ełk Grajewo - Białystok - Bobrowniki (- Belarus )
Romejki - Płociczno - Miluki → Oracze
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Oracze ( German  Oratzen , also: Szameyten , 1928 to 1945 Wittenwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Oracze at Jezioro Wityny (Jez.Jachimowo)

Geographical location

Oracze is located in the north of the Wittinner See ( Polish Jezioro Wityny , also: Jezioro Jachimowo ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, five kilometers north of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Today's Oracze consists of two independent localities until 1928, the northern part of which was called Szameyten and the southern part was called Oratzen :

  • Szameyten was founded in 1473 as a village in 1785 and was Smoydzien after 1785 Sameiten before 1912 Zameythen and then Szameyten called
  • Oratzen consisted of a few farmsteads and was located directly on the north bank of the Wittinner See.

Both places were in 1874 in the District Schedlisken ( Polish Siedliska ) integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Sonnau" - to 1945 and county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In Szameyten a total of 303 inhabitants were registered in 1910, in Oratzen there were 117 in the same year. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which both villages belonged, agreed on July 11, 1920 about further state membership East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Oratzen 80 people, in Szameyten 200, voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On November 1, 1928, both villages gave up their independence and were merged with the neighboring towns of Wittinnen ( Wityny in Polish ) and Milchbude (Forst) ( Mleczkowo in Polish ) to form the new rural community of Wittenwalde . The population of this new municipality was 399 in 1933 and was already 412 in 1939. It was still assigned to the Schedlisken district (1938 to 1945: Sonnau district).

In war-induced Witten Walde 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish form of the name "Oracze". With the neighboring village Wityny (Wittinnen) it forms a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) in the association of Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Until 1945 Szameyten and Oratzen or Wittenwalde were parish in the Evangelical Church of Stradaunen 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 Ermland .

Today Oracze belongs to the Catholic parish Staduny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here support the parish in the town of Ełk , a subsidiary of the Pisz parish ( Johannisburg in German ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .  

traffic

Oracze located on the traffic-significant Polish national road 65 (former German National Highway 132 ), by the provinces Masuria and Podlachien runs and connects the Polish-Russian border with the Polish-Belarus border. In addition, a side road from Romejki (Rumeyken) ends in Oracze. There is no rail link.

Web links

Commons : Oracze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 871
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Wittenwalde (Szameyten)
  4. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Oratzen
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Schedlisken / Sonnau district
  6. ^ A b Uli Schubert, municipality register, district of Lyck
  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, pp. 86, 88
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , volume 3 documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  9. ↑ Szameiten
  10. ↑ Oratzen