Sordachy

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Sordachy (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 49 '  N , 22 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '13 "  N , 22 ° 28' 27"  E
Residents : 43 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-301
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Regielnica → Sordachy
Kałęczyny - Koziki → Sordachy
Mrozy Wielkie → Sordachy
Rail route : Ełk – Turowo railway line of Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa (tourist traffic)
Railway station: Regielnica
Next international airport : Danzig



Sordachy ( German  Sordachen , 1938 to 1945 Sorden ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Sordachy is located on the south bank of the Great Sellmentsee ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The small village of Sordachen was founded in 1484. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the Selment district with its seat in Klein Mrosen ( Mrozy Małe in Polish ). It belonged - renamed in 1938 to "Official District Schönhorst (Ostpr.)" - to the district of Lyck in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (from 1905: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 the Sordachians had 109 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 115. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which the Sordachians belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany ) or the connection to Poland. In Sordach, 80 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, the Sordachians were renamed “Sorden” for political and ideological reasons to defend themselves against foreign-sounding place names . In 1939 the population was only 84.

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 “Sordachy”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ), which also includes the neighboring village of Koziki (Kozycken , 1938 to 1945 Selmenthöhe) . It is a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Sorachen resp. Sorden 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 Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sordachy belongs to the Catholic parish in Regielnica (Regelitzen , 1938 to 1945 Regelhof) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , which is now a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sordachy is a little away from the traffic and is on side streets from the neighboring towns of Kałęczyny (Kallenszynnen , 1938 to 1945 Lenzendorf) and Regielnica (Regelitzen , 1938 to 1945 Regelhof) as well as from Mrozy Wielkie (Groß Mrosen , 1929 to 1938 Mrossen , 1938 to 1945 Schönhorst (Ostpr.)) To be reached by land.

The next train station is Regielnica on the railway line Ełk – Turowo ( German  Lyck – Thurowen / Auersberg ), which is operated today by the Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa (former Lycker Kleinbahnen ) in tourist traffic as a historic narrow-gauge railway.

Individual evidence

  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. 1178
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sorden
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Selment / Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
  5. ↑ a b Sordachians
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
  11. ^ Parafia Regielnica in the Diocese of Ełk