Sokółki (Prostki)

Sokółki
	Sokółki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Prostki
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 ′  N , 22 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 50 "  N , 22 ° 22 ′ 20"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	19-335
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1680N: Prostki / DK 65 ↔ Wojtele - Skarżyn - Kożuchy Małe / DK 58
	Gorczyce - Długochorzele → Sokółki
	Borki - Glinki → Sokółki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sokółki ( German  Sokolken , 1938 to 1945 Stahnken ) 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

Sokółki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 16 kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The place, known as Sokollken after 1785 and Sokolken until 1938, with several small farms and farmsteads was founded in 1509. In 1874 the village came as an independent rural community to the newly established Gorczitzen District ( Gorczyce in Polish ), which a few years later became part of the Borken District ( Borki in Polish ). It belonged to 1945 the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The Preussisch Höhe residential area also belonged to the rural community.

In 1910 Sokolken had 117 inhabitants, in 1933 166 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sokolken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sokolken, 80 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Sokolken was foreign-sounding place names in "Stahnken" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 139 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Sokółki”. Today the village is included in the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Popowo (Popowen , 1938 to 1945 Wittingen) and is thus a village in the Gmina Prostki (Prostken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Sokolken resp. Stahnken parished into the Protestant Church of Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Ostrykół in Polish ) 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 (Ełk) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sokółki belongs to the Catholic parish in Prostki (Prostken) , but has its own church as a subsidiary church . It is part of the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sokółki is on the side road 1680N, which connects Prostki (Prostken) with Gmina Biała Piska (Biallen , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) near Skarżyn (Skarzinnen , 1938 to 1945 Richtenberg) . In addition, smaller regional roads end in Sokółki. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1173
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Stahnken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Gorczitzen / Borken district
4. ^ 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, pp. 148/149.
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 - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 87
8. ↑ Gmina Prostki ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 494
10. ↑ Sokolken (District of Lyck)