Plewki (Olecko)

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Plewki (Poland)
Plewki
Plewki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Olecko
Geographic location : 54 ° 8 '  N , 22 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '37 "  N , 22 ° 34' 23"  E
Residents : 145 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Mieruniszki / ext. 652 ↔ Dąbrowskie - Babki Oleckie
Borawskie → Plewki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Gdansk Airport



Plewki ( German  Plöwken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Plewki is located in northeastern Poland only about 20 kilometers southwest of the border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in the far east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, whose border with Podlaskie Voivodeship is only three kilometers away. Until 1938, the former German-Polish state border ran just two kilometers away . The district town of Olecko is eleven kilometers to the south-west.

history

The small village originally called Pleffky , also known as Pleffken before 1785, was founded in 1562.

From 1874 to 1945 it was incorporated into the Mierunsken district, which - renamed "Merunen District" in 1938 - belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . During the same period, Plöwken was also assigned to the Mierunsken (Merunen) registry office . The Jeborken residential area also belonged to the rural community of Plöwken .

537 inhabitants were registered in Plöwken in 1910. Their number decreased to 485 by 1933 and totaled 399 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Plöwken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Plöwken, 346 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not.

As a result of the war, Plöwken came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of the name “Plewki”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Religions

Until 1945, Plöwken was parish in the Protestant parish Mierunsken / Eichhorn - Pfarrsprengel Mierunsken - in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the next Catholic parish church is that in Szczecinki (Sczeczinken , Eichhorn from 1916 to 1945 ) . It belongs to the diocese Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents of Plewkis orient themselves towards the parish in Suwałki , which belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Plewki is on a side street, the Mieruniszki (Mierunsken , 1938 to 1945 Merunen) on the voivodship street DW 652 (former German Reichsstraße 137 ) with Babki Oleckie (Babken, Ksp. Marggrabowa , 1938 to 1945 Legenquell) , to continue to Sedranki (Seedranken) and Olecko, connects. In addition, a side road coming from the south-east of Borawskie (Borawsken , 1938 to 1945 Deutscheck) ends in Plewki .

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. 930
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Plöwken
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Merunen District
  5. ↑ a b c Plöwken
  6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, pp. 196–197.
  7. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ 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. 65
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484