Piaski (Ełk)

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Piaski (Poland)
Piaski
Piaski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 55 '  N , 22 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '58 "  N , 22 ° 19' 15"  E
Residents : 114 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-325
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Straduny / DK 65 ↔ Połom - Wronki / ext. 655
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Piaski ( German  Piasken , 1927 to 1945 Klein Rauschen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Piaski is located on the east bank of the Jezioro Łaśmiady (1938 to 1945 Laschmieden See , German  Laszmiaden See ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The district town of Ełk (Lyck) is eleven kilometers to the south-east.

history

The village of Piasken was founded in 1474.

From 1874 to 1945, was rural community Piasken in the District Stradaunen ( Polish Straduny incorporated) that the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Piasken had 237 inhabitants. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Piasken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Piasken, 180 people voted to stay with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On November 23, 1927, Piasken was renamed "Klein Rauschen". The population was 207 in 1933 and 201 in 1939.

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 name form "Piaski". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwa ) and a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

Piasken was parish in the Protestant Church of Stradaunen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck (Ełk) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Piaski belongs to the Catholic parish Straduny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in Ełk, a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Piaski is located on a side road that branches off at Straduny (Stradaunen) from the Polish state road 65 (formerly German Reichsstraße 132 ) and via Połom (Polommen , 1938 to 1945 Herzogsmühle) to Wronki (Wronken , 1938 to 1945 Fronicken) on the voivodship road 655 leads.

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. 915
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Klein Rauschen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Stradaunen district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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. 86
  7. ↑ 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).
  8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  10. ↑ Piasken (District of Lyck)