Sołtmany (Prostki)

Sołtmany
	Sołtmany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 42 '  N , 22 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '32 "  N , 22 ° 23' 55"  E
Residents :	62 (2010)
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	( Prostki -) Krupin ↔ Kobylin
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sołtmany [ sɔu̯tˈmanɨ ] ( German  Soltmahnen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Sołtmany is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Soltmahnen was founded before 1539, which before 1945 only consisted of several small farms and farms. In 1785 it was named as a royal farming village with eleven fire pits and in 1818 as a farming village with 15 fire pits and 72 inhabitants.

1874 Soltmahnen was in the newly built office district Gorczitzen (1928 to 1945 Deumenrode, Polish Gorczyce incorporated), which - in 1908 in "District Borken " renamed - was and until 1945 the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 Government district Allenstein ) in the Prussian Province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 a total of 151 residents were registered in Soltmahnen. Their number decreased to 112 by 1933 and totaled 117 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Soltmahnen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Soltmahnen, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Soltmahnen came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and since then has had the Polish name form “Sołtmany”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( sołectwo in Polish ) and with its 62 inhabitants is part of the Prostki (Prostken) rural community in the Ełcki powiat ( Lyck district ) , which was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship before 1998 and has since been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Soltmahnen 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 Catholic St. Adalbert Church in Lyck (Polish: Ełk) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sołtmany is part of the Catholic parish Prostki (Prostken) with the branch church Ostrykół in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland or belongs to the Protestant parish in Ełk, a branch parish of the parish Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sołtmany lies west of the busy Polish national road DK 65 (former German national route 132 ) and is on a side road of Prostki (Prostken) over Krupin (Krupinnen , 1938-1945 Klein Wittingen) towards Kobylin (Good Kobylinnen , 1938-1945 Kobilinnen) to reach .

The next train station is Prostki on the former Königsberg – Brest railway line , which today only operates from Korsze (Korschen) to Białystok .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1174
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Soltmahnen
3. ↑ ^{a b} Soltmahnen (District of Lyck)
4. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, Gorczitzen / Borken district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
6. ↑ 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 - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 87