Suczki (Węgorzewo)

Suczki
	Suczki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Węgorzewo
Gmina :	Węgorzewo
Geographic location :	54 ° 19 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '53 "  N , 21 ° 40' 32"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NWE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Perły / DK 63 → Suczki
	Rudziszki → Suczki
	Łęgwarowo → Suczki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Suczki ( German  Sutzken , 1938 to 1945 Sutzen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the powiat Węgorzewski ( Angerburg district ).

Geographical location

Suczki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers northwest of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and 25 kilometers southeast of the former district metropolis of Gerdauen ( Russian Железнодорожный ), which is now on Russian territory .

history

The small village, once called Sutzen Wolle , was first mentioned in 1607. The form of the name changed in the following period: Schatzken (before 1785), Schutzken (after 1785), Szuczken (around 1820), Zutzken (after 1820) and Sutzken (until 1938). In 1874, the place came to the newly established District Raudischken ( Polish Rudziszki ) of 1930 in the district Reusch field (Polish Ruskie Pole, no longer in existence) opened and until 1945 the county Gerdauen in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

House view in Suczki (Sutzken)

In 1910 a total of 134 inhabitants lived in Sutzken. On September 30, 1928, the neighboring village of Raudischken was incorporated into the rural community of Sutzken, which was then renamed "Raudischken". The place Sutzken was renamed "Sutzen" in 1938.

In war-induced Sutzen was in 1945 with the entire southern East Prussia and the south-eastern area of the circle Gerdauen to Poland handed over and received the Polish form of the name "Suczki". The place is integrated into the Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural municipality Węgorzewo in the powiat Węgorzewski , before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

church

Sutzken resp. Sutzen was not a church village . The majority Protestant population was in the church in Nordenburg (today Russian Krylowo ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , the Catholic population in the parish church of St. Bruno in Insterburg (Russian: Chernyachovsk) in the diocese of Warmia .

Today the predominantly Catholic residents of Suczki belong to the parish of St. Josef in Węgielsztyn (Engelstein) (with a branch church in the closer Perly (Perlswalde) ) in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The few Protestant church members are assigned to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) . It is a branch parish of the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Given its location just one kilometer south of the Polish-Russian border, Suczki is a little remote. Land roads lead from the neighboring villages into the village, including the connection to the Polish state road DK 63 (formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ) at Perły (Perlswalde) . There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sutzen
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Raudischken / Reuschenfeld district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Gerdauen
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 458