Pomiany (Olecko)

Pomiany
	Pomiany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	53 ° 54 '  N , 22 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '44 "  N , 22 ° 30' 8"  E
Residents :
Economy and Transport
Street :	Babki Gąseckie → Pomiany
	Gąsiorowo → Pomiany
Rail route :	Ełk – Olecko (freight only) Railway station: Kijewo
Next international airport :	Danzig

Pomiany ( German  Pomiannen , 1938 to 1945 Kelchdorf ) is a non-official place ( Polish nieoficjalny przysiółek wsi ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the area of ​​the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also: Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 in Treuburg ) Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Pomiany is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 16 kilometers south of the district town of Olecko .

history

Which at the time Pomien after 1785 Pomianen and until 1938 Pomiannen called small village was founded in 1556 and existed before 1945 of a few small farms.

From 1874 to 1945 it was incorporated into the Babken District ( Babki Gąseckie in Polish ), which - renamed "Babeck District" in 1938 - belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On December 1, 1910, 38 residents were registered in Pomiannen. Their number rose to 52 by 1933 and was 42 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Pomiannen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Pomiannen, 33 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3, 1938, Pomiannen was renamed "Kelchdorf".

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 form of name "Pomiany". It belongs to the urban and rural municipality Olecko in the Powiat Olecki .

Religions

Before 1945 Pomiannen was parish in the Protestant parish of the Gonsken Church in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church in Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Pomiany belongs to the Protestant parish in Ełk ( German  Lyck ), a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , and to the Catholic parish church in Gąski in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Pomiany can only be reached by land from Babki Gąseckie (Babken , 1938 to 1945 Babeck) or from Gąsiorowo (Groß Gonschorowen , 1938 to 1945 Klinken) .

The nearest train station is Kijewo (Kiöwen) on the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk railway line , which is only used for freight traffic between Ełk and Olecko.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kelchdorf
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Babeck District
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
4. ^ 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). 
5. ↑ 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
6. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484