Romejki (Ełk)

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Romejki (Poland)
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Romejki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 55 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '43 "  N , 22 ° 25' 6"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Oracze / DK 65 - Płociczno → Romejki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



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

Geographical location

Romejki is located south of Lake Krauser ( Jezioro Krzywionka in Polish ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers north of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small village - after 1785 Rumeicken , called Rumeyken until 1945 - was founded in 1472 and before 1945 consisted of a few small farms and farms. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Soffen ( Polish Krokocie ) integrated, the for loop elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Rumeyken had 68 inhabitants in 1910. Their number rose to 68 by 1933 and was still 56 in 1939. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Rumeyken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 over the further state Belonging to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Rumeyken, 60 people voted to stay with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Rumeyken came to Poland with southern East Prussia in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name “Romejki”. Today it is part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Rumeyken was parish in the Protestant Church Stradaunen ( Polish Straduny ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Romejki belongs to the Catholic parish Straduny in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk, a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Romejki is located on a side street that leads from the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) via Płociczno (Plotzitzen , 1938–1945 Bunhausen) to the town. There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Rumeyken
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Soffen district
  3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  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. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  7. ↑ Rumeyken