Sikory Ostrokolskie

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Sikory Ostrokolskie
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Sikory Ostrokolskie (Poland)
Sikory Ostrokolskie
Sikory Ostrokolskie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 45 '  N , 22 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 '9 "  N , 22 ° 22' 48"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-335
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Lipińskie Małe → Sikory Ostrokolskie
Rail route : Giżycko – Białystok
railway station: Lipińskie Małe
Next international airport : Danzig



Sikory Ostrokolskie ( German  Schikorren , 1938–45 Kiefernheide ) 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

Sikory Ostrokolskie is located on the river Ełk (Lyck) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) . In the north of the place the "Sikorowskie łąki" ( German  Neuendorfer Bruch ) extend .

history

Today's Sikory Ostrokolskie was founded around 1539 and, as in the past, consists of only a few small farms. After 1818 the addition parish Ostrokollen was added to the name Schikorren .

The place was in 1874 in the newly established District Ostrokollen ( Polish Ostrykół ) integrated, the - 1938 renamed "District Scharfenrade" - to 1945 and county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910, 62 inhabitants were registered in Schikorren, in 1933 there were 39. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schikorren belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 that they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Schikorren, 60 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Schikorren was foreign-sounding place names in "Kiefernheide" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 26 in 1939.

In 1945 the town was in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Sikory Ostrokolskie". Today it is part of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Schikorren resp. Kiefernheide was parish in the Evangelical Church of Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sikory Ostrokolskie belongs on the Catholic side to the parish Nowa Wieś Ełcka ( German  Neuendorf ) with the branch church Bobry (Bobern) 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 Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sikory Ostrokolskie is a little away from the traffic and can only be reached by land from the neighboring town of Lipińskie Małe (Lipinsken , Lindenfließ 1935-1945 ) . Lipińskie Małe is also the nearest train station on the Giżycko – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1152
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kiefernheide
  3. To distinguish it from the place " Schikorren (Parish Stradaunen) " located in the same district of Lyck
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ostrokollen / Scharfenrade district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  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). (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. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
  9. Schikorren (Ksp. Ostrokollen)
  10. ^ Parafia Nowa Wieś Ełcka