Ostrykół

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Ostrykół
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Ostrykół (Poland)
Ostrykół
Ostrykół
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Prostki
Geographic location : 53 ° 43 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '7 "  N , 22 ° 25' 29"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-335
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Prostki / ext. 65 ↔ Lipińskie Małe
Rail route : Korsze – Ełk – Białystok
railway station: Prostki
Next international airport : Danzig



Ostrykół ( German  Ostrokollen , 1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade ) 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

Ostrykół is located on the river Elk ( Polish Ełk ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Up to the city of Elk (Lyck) is 13 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The church village Ostrokollen was founded in 1538. On 27 May 1874, the village became the seat and its name to the District , which existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On December 1, 1910, 307 inhabitants were registered in Ostrokollen. The number decreased to 264 by 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Ostrokollen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Ostrokollen, 260 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

For political and ideological reasons Ostrokollen was in "Scharfenrade" on June 3, 1938 renamed . The number of inhabitants in 1939 was 222.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish name form "Ostrykół". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo in Polish ) and thus a village in the Gmina Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki (district Lyck ), until 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Ostrokollen / Scharfenrade district (1874–1945)

The district of Ostrokollen existed from May 27, 1874 and was renamed on November 15, 1938 in "District of Schafenrade". Initially nine and in the end still seven places belonged to it:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name		 Remarks
Bobern Bobry
Hellmahnen Helmany
Krupinnen Kleinwittingen Krupine after 1908 in the rural community Popowen incorporated
Lipinsken (Ksp. Ostrokollen) (from 1935 :)
Lindenfließ		 Lipińskie Małe
Niedzwetzken (from 1936 :)
Wiesengrund		 Niedźwiedzkie
Ostrokollen Sharpwheel Ostrykół
Cheers Prostki In the newly formed District on October 1, 1939 Prostken reclassified
Schikorren (Ksp. Ostrokollen) Pine heather Sikory Ostrokolskie
Sunk Ulrichsfelde (East Pr.) Zdunki

On January 1, 1945, the communities of Bobern, Hellmahnen, Kiefernheide, Lindenfließ, Scharfenrade, Ulrichsfelde and Wiesengrund were integrated into the district of Scharfenrade.

Eastern Rocollnian border column from 1545

The Ostrokollnische border column near Bogusze

The so-called Ostrokollnian border column stands on the edge of the district of Ostrokollen / Scharfenrade in the area of ​​today's village of Bogusze . Duke Albrecht had it built in 1545 to document the course of the border, which was fixed in the Peace of Lake Melno in 1422, recognized in the peace agreement with King Sigismund I in 1525, but was only precisely defined after lengthy negotiations.

The inscription in German translation reads: Once, when Sigismund August and Margrave Albrecht I exercised the rights in the paternal border region and the former ruled the old cities of Jagiello, the latter ruled the power of the Prussians in peace, this pillar was erected to mark the borders precisely designated and separates the land holdings of the two dukes. August 1545.

The panels in the column are replicas. The originals were handed over to the Königsberg Castle for safekeeping.

Religions

Historical photo of the Ostrokollen Church

Church building

After the previous building from 1538 was destroyed by flames in 1656, a wooden church was rebuilt in Ostrokollen in 1667 , which has been preserved to this day and is one of the last two old wooden churches in Masuria . Built on a field stone plinth, it is boarded inside and out and resembles a basilica, with three aisles and a choir . The valuable furnishings date from around 1700.

Until 1945 the church was a Protestant house of worship, today it is a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish in Prostki and is called the " Cross Exaltation Church ".

Parish

Evangelical

The Protestant parish of Ostrokollen existed between 1538 and 1945, the parish of which was relocated to Prostken (Polish Prostki ) in 1910 . In 1925 it had almost 6,000 parish members and was incorporated into the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Flight and expulsion of the local population caused the life of the Protestant community to collapse after 1945. Today only a few Protestant church members live here. You stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945, very few Catholics lived in the Ostrokollen parish area. Your parish church was the St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945 the number of Catholics increased drastically, so that the previously Protestant church soon became a Catholic place of worship. In addition to a chapel in Sokółki (Sokolken , Stahnken 1938 to 1945 ) , it is looked after by the parish in Prostki . It belongs to the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Ostrykół is located east of the Polish state road 65 (section of the former German Reichsstraße 132 ) and can be reached via a side road from Prostki . Prostki is also the nearest train station and is on the Korsze – Ełk – Białystok railway line , which ran from Königsberg (Prussia) to Brest , which is now in Belarus , before 1945 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 893
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Scharfenrade
  3. ↑ a b 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. 86
  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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bip.warmia.mazury.pl
  8. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Prostken
  9. ↑ The Ostrokollnische Grenzsäule
  10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 125, Fig. 576
  11. ^ Ostrykół - Ostrokollen / Sharpwheel
  12. ↑ Prostky Parish
  13. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 494
  14. ↑ Ostrokollen