Przepiórki

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Przepiórki ( German  Przepiorken , 1926–1945 Wachteldorf ) was a former village in northeastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), East Prussia, in today's area of ​​the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen) .

Panoramic view of the Jezioro Przepiórka

Geographical location

The village was located eleven kilometers as the crow flies south of the town of Kalinowo on the east bank of Lake Przepiorken (1929 to 1945 Wachteldorfer See , Jezioro Przepiórka in Polish ) and was accessible via a country road from Borzymy (German: Borschimmen ). Four kilometers further south is the city of Rajgród in the immediately adjacent Podlaskie Voivodeship .

history

Przepiorken was 1,503 as Pippurcken first mentioned in documents and emerged as a by internal migration of elk outgoing Pflüger village (also Oratzen called).

In 1656 the Tatars, allied with Poland, invaded large parts of Masuria, and Przepiorken was completely destroyed. In a report by the Lyck governor von Auer it says:

"13 hooves, all 10 farms burned, sown over winter, all cattle and horses gone, 10 people driven away, Jan Pogorzelski cut down, 1 house burned."

In 1679, the residents of Przepiorken presented to the governor of Lyck because of excessive loads, but ultimately unsuccessful.

The village was always in danger of becoming desolate. In the 18th century, more immigrants were recruited from the Polish Mazovia .

On May 27, 1874, in the course of a Prussian community reform, a new district Borczymmen (from 1881 Borszymmen , from 1936 Borschymmen , 1938 to 1945 Borschimmen , Polish Borzymy ) was formed, which included the communities Borczymmen , Jendreyken , Lissewen , Przepiorken, Skrzypken and Stosznen and the Romotten manor district includes lakes. In 1908 the municipalities of Duttken, Gronsken and Romanowen and the Imionken manor district were reclassified from the previous Dluggen district to the Borszymmen district.

On December 1, 1910, Przepiorken had 66 residents.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Przepiorken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Przepiorken, 40 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

Przepiorken was renamed on April 10, 1926 in the course of the Germanization of place names of Masurian origin in Wachteldorf , which corresponds roughly to a literal translation of the underlying Slavic term przepiórka for German quail . The renaming was also carried over to Lake Przepiork .

In 1931, the district of Borszymmen included the rural communities Borszymmen, Duttken, Geigenau, Gronsken, Jendreyken, Lyssewen, Romanowen, Stosznen and Wachteldorf.

In 1933 there were 99 inhabitants in Wachteldorf, in 1939 there were 97 inhabitants.

Until the outbreak of the Second World War , Przepiorken or Wachteldorf was on the border between East Prussia and Poland. Since the demarcation here resulted in a strip of the eastern shore of the Wachteldorfer See that became narrower to the south, and the German-Polish border finally merged south of Wachteldorf into the Wachteldorfer See, the village could only be reached from the north or by water.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Wachteldorf , which belonged to the German Reich as a result of the war, fell to Poland. The resident German population, as far as they had not fled, was largely expelled or resettled after 1945, with the exception of a remaining core of the Masurian minority . The settlement by new residents from other parts of Poland was less successful. The place Wachteldorf was renamed in the Polish phonetic formation of the historical place name Przepiorken in Przepiórki.

Around 1963 there were still officially 25 inhabitants in Przepiórki. In 1965 the place was assigned to Lisewo (Lyssewen , 1938 to 1945 Lissau) on the other side of the water . In the following years the place was finally abandoned due to further migration of the last residents and is in fact no longer available.

church

Until 1945 Przepiorken was parish in the Protestant Church Borszymmen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church in Prawdzisken (1934 to 1945 Reiffenrode , Polish Prawdziska ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rolf Jehke, Anmtsgebiet Borszymmen / borszymmen / Borschymmen / Borschimmen
  2. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ Przepiorken

Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '  N , 22 ° 42'  E