Rękusy

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Rękusy
Rękusy does not have a coat of arms
Rękusy (Poland)
Rękusy
Rękusy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '17 "  N , 22 ° 15' 14"  E
Residents : 49 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-301
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - Mrągowo - Orzysz - Ruska Wieś ↔ Ełk - Augustów
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Rękusy ( German  Renkussen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Rękusy entrance sign at DK 16

Geographical location

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

history

Renkussen was founded in 1494 and consisted of a few small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was in the District Elk Country based in Neuendorf ( Polish Nowa Wieś Ełcka incorporated) that the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Renkussen had 94 inhabitants. Their number rose to 114 by 1933 and was 93 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Renkussen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Renkussen, 60 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

In war-induced Renkussen came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Rękusy". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Renkussen was parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic St. Adalbert Church of Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . The ecclesiastical relationship with the district town still exists today, both on the Protestant and the Catholic side.

traffic

Rękusy is located on the important Polish national road 16 (formerly German Reichsstraße 127 ), which connects the three voivodeships of Kuyavian-Pomeranian , Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie . There is no train connection.

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. 1078
  3. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Renkussen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Lyck-Land
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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).
  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. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
  10. ↑ Renkussen