Raczki Wielkie

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Raczki Wielkie
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Raczki Wielkie (Poland)
Raczki Wielkie
Raczki Wielkie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Olecko
Geographic location : 54 ° 3 '  N , 22 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '30 "  N , 22 ° 35' 6"  E
Residents : 68 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-400
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Szczecinki / ext. 653 ↔ Krupin
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Raczki Wielkie ( German  Groß Retzken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Olecko (Marggrabowa, colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Raczki Wielkie is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , six kilometers northeast of the district town of Olecko .

history

The small village of Retzken , only called Groß Retzken (with an addition) from 1777 , was founded on September 12, 1566. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the district of Krupinnen ( Krupin in Polish ), which belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1874, Groß Retzken was included in the Marggrabowa -Land registry office until it was assigned to the newly established Sczeczinken registry office in 1913 (1916 to 1945: Eichhorn, Szczecinki in Polish).

Groß Retzken had 192 inhabitants in 1910. After the incorporation of the neighboring town of Klein Retzken ( Raczki Małe in Polish , no longer existent) on September 30, 1928, their number rose to 233 in 1933, and amounted to 184 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Groß Retzken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In large and small Retzken, 169 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Groß Retzken came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has been using the Polish name "Raczki Wielkie" since then. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ), until 1998 of the voivodeship Suwałki , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Groß Retzken was a parish in the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa until 1913, after that it belonged to the parish of the Mierunischken / Eichhorn parish until 1945 - here to the Eichhorn district (until 1916: Sczeczinken, Polish : Szczecinki ) - in the parish of Oletzko (Treuburg) in the church province East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . On the Catholic side , the place was part of the Catholic parish church of the district town in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic church members Raczki Wielkies belong to the parish church Szczecinki in the diocese Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestant church members orientate themselves to the parish Suwałki with the branch community Gołdap .

traffic

Raczki Wielkie is a few kilometers south of the Polish voivodship road DW 653 (between 1939 and 1944 part of the German Reichsstrasse 127 ), and can be reached from Szczecinki (Sczeczinken , 1916 to 1945 Eichhorn) via a side road in the direction of Krupin (Krupinnen) .

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. 1054
  3. ↑ Great Retzken
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Krupinnen district
  5. ↑ a b c Groß Retzken
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ 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. 64
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484