Siedliska (Ełk)

Siedliska
	Siedliska
	Siedliska
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 50 ′ N , 22 ° 19 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 21 ″ N , 22 ° 19 ′ 7 ″ E
Residents :	595 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DW 656 : Ełk ↔ Woszczele - Grabnik - Zelki - Staświny (- Giżycko )
	Mleczkowo → Siedliska
Rail route :	Korsze – Białystok ; railway station: Ełk
Next international airport :	Danzig
	; ;

Entrance to Siedliska

Siedliska ( German Schedlisken , 1938 to 1945 Sonnau ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Siedliska is located 500 meters north of the Jezioro Sunowo (1938 to 1945 Sonnau-See , German Sunowo-See ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , three kilometers northwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The then Schedlisken was founded in 1473. In later times there was a brick factory about 1.5 kilometers northeast of the village , which was of national importance.

Between 1874 and 1945 Schedlisken office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district , which - renamed "District Sonnau" on November 15, 1938 - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

Schedlisken had 357 inhabitants in 1910 and 401 in 1933. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schedlisken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany ) or the connection to Poland. In Schedlisken, 380 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Schedlisken was foreign-sounding place names in "Sonnau" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 446 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945, along with all of southern East Prussia , and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Siedliska". The place is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the association of Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Schedlisken / Sonnau district (1874–1945)

When it was established in 1874, eight villages belonged to the administrative district of Schedlisken. At the end of 1945, due to structural changes, there were still five:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Bees	Binien	Bienie
Chrzanowen	(from 1933 :) lime kiln	Chrzanowo
Little Elck Mill	Small mill	Młynek
Mylucken	Mulicking	Miluki
Oratzen		Oracze	1928 in the rural community of Witten Walde incorporated
Schedlisks	Sonnau	Siedliska
Szameyten		Oracze	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Wittenwalde
Wittinnen		Wityny	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Wittenwalde

On January 1, 1945 the district of Sonnau consisted of the following places: Binien, Kalkofen, Milucken, Sonnau and Wittenwalde.

church

Schedlisken resp. Sonnau was parish 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 Catholic parish church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . The church connection to Ełk continues.

traffic

Siedliska is located on Voivodship Road 656 , which connects the two regions of Ełk (Lyck) and Giżycko (Lötzen) . A country road also leads from Mleczkowo (milk shop) directly into town.

The nearest train station is Ełk on the only regular route from Korsze to Białystok . The railway line runs south of the village of Siedliska - here without stopping, of course.

Individual evidence

^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1144
↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sonnau
^ ^A ^b Rolf Jehke, Schedlisken / Sonnau district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 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. 87
↑ Gmina Ełk
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494
↑ Schedlisken (District of Lyck)

[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. 1144

[3] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sonnau

[Jehke-4] A ^b Rolf Jehke, Schedlisken / Sonnau district

[5] Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck

[Rademacher-6] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). Accessed September 2018(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. 87

[8] Gmina Ełk

[9] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494

[10] Schedlisken (District of Lyck)