Skowronki (Olecko)

Skowronki
	Skowronki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	54 ° 0 ′  N , 22 ° 32 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  N , 22 ° 31 ′ 36 ″  E
Residents :	40 (2006)
Postal code :	19-404
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Olecko - Lesk → Skowronki
Rail route :	Ełk – Olecko (freight only) Railway station: Olecko
Next international airport :	Danzig

Skowronki ( German  Birkenort ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Part of the park in Skowronki (Birkenort)

Geographical location

Skowronki is located in northeast Poland only about 20 kilometers southwest of the border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and in the east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and in the northeast of Lake Klein Oletzko (1938 to 1945 Herzogshöher See , Jezioro Olecko Małe in Polish ). The district town of Olecko is four kilometers to the northwest.

history

In the 19th century, the small town was founded as Abbau Preß and was named Birkenort on March 2, 1875 . Originally it only consisted of a large courtyard. In 1905 the place already had 41 inhabitants in four houses. Until 1945, Birkenort was a residential area in the municipality and later town of Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945: Treuburg) in the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the war, all of southern East Prussia came to Poland in 1945 . Birkenort was given the Polish name “Skowronki” and is now part of the urban and rural community of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 of the Suwałki voivodeship , since then belonging to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Until 1945 Birkenort was parish in the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of the district town, then located in the Diocese of Warmia .

On the Catholic side, the connection to the town of Olecko continued after 1945, with the parish church today belonging to the Diocese of Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members of Skowronki orientate themselves towards the church in Ełk , a branch church of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Skowronki can be reached from Olecko via Lesk (Legahof) on a side road. There is a short direct connection to the voivodship road DW 655 between Olecko and Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) .

There is a rail link via the train station in Olecko to the Ełk – Olecko section, which is now only operated as goods traffic .

Web links

Commons : Skowronki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1157
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Birkenort
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, p. 194.