Przykopka

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Przykopka
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Przykopka (Poland)
Przykopka
Przykopka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '49 "  N , 22 ° 25' 59"  E
Residents : 162 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-311
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 ↔ Chełchy - Kijewo
Płociczno - Krokocie → Przykopka
Rail route : PKP line 41: Ełk – Olecko (no longer stops in Przykopka, only sporadic rail traffic)
Next international airport : Danzig



Przykopka ( German  Przykopken , 1926 to 1945 Birkenwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Przykopka is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, seven kilometers northeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck ).

history

Przykopken was founded in 1515.

From 1874 to 1905, the village with the associated residential area Forsthaus Birkenwalde (Polish: Pisanica) was included in the Soffen registry office ( Krokocie in Polish ), then until 1945 in the Chelchen registry office (1938 to 1945: Kelchendorf , Polish: Chełchy ). In the same period Przykopken was a village within the headquarters district Soffen (Krokocie) of the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Przykopken had 213 inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Przykopken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Przykopken, 140 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On July 19, 1926, Przykopken was renamed "Birkenwalde". The population rose to 223 by 1933 and was 230 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Przykopka”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus 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

Until 1945 Przskopken was parish with the Birkenwalde forester's house in the Protestant parish church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic residents of Przykopka belong to the parish Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938 to 1945 Kelchendorf) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Przykopka is located on a side road that branches off four kilometers east of Ełk from state road 16 in a northerly direction and leads to Kijewo (Kiöwen) . The place can also be reached from Płociczno (Plotzitznen , 1938 to 1945 Bunhausen) via Krokocie (Soffen) .

From 1879 Przykopken is a train station on the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk ( German  Lyck – Insterburg ) railway line , which today is only used sporadically between Ełk and Olecko - without stopping at Przykopka.

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. 1045
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Birkenwalde
  4. ↑ a b Przykopken
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Soffen district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494