Szarejki (Kowale Oleckie)

Szarejki
	Szarejki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 8 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '53 "  N , 22 ° 24' 31"  E
Residents :	130 (2006)
Postal code :	19-420 Kowale Oleckie
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 65 → Szarejki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szarejki ( German  Schareyken , 1938 to 1945 Schareiken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district) .

Geographical location

Szarejki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 12 kilometers northwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , also: Oletzko , Treuburg from 1928 to 1945 ) .

history

Today's Szarejki is a settlement founded in 1566 by the village mayor Schareyko , who gave the place its name. Before 1785 the village was also called Scharecken , after 1785 Scharreicken . On May 27, 1874, it became the official seat and thus gave its name to a newly established district , which until 1933 belonged to the Oletzko district - called Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Schareyken had 253 inhabitants in 1910. Their number rose to 264 by 1933 and in 1939 was already 309.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schareyken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Schareyken, 226 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

Due to the political and ideological defense, the spelling seemed foreign to the place name Schareykens on June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16) changed to "Schareiken". 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 “Szarejki”. The village is now the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish: Sołectwo) and a village in the network of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs to.

District of Schareyken / Schareiken (1874–1945)

The Schareyken district (1938 to 1945 "Schareiken district"), which was part of the Oletzko district (renamed " Treuburg district " from 1933 to 1945 ), initially had seven and ended up with six places:

Surname	Change name from 1928 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Peace Village		Kilianki
Gortzitzen	(since 1909 :) Gartenberg	Gorczyce	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Monethen
Kilians	Kilianas	Kiliany
Monethen	dough	Monety
Rogowken	Roggenfelde (East Pr.)	Rogówko
Schareyken	Shariks	Szarejki
Stoosznen	Stosnau	Bumps

church

→ Main article : Szarejki village church

Church building

The church built in the 1560s burned down in 1677 and was replaced by a new building in 1719. It is a plastered stone church with altar and pulpit from the workshop of Friedrich Pfeffer in Königsberg (Prussia) from 1720. The church was a Protestant place of worship until 1945 , since then it has served as a Catholic worship center and has been named Kościół św. Matki Bożej Różańcowej .

Parish

Evangelical

Since the establishment of a parish in Schareyken, it has been oriented towards the Lutheran creed. Until 1945 it belonged with its 21 villages counted parish to parish district Oletzko / Treuburg in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . Because of the flight and displacement of the local population , church life came to a standstill in the place then known as Szarejki. Protestant church members living here again today belong to the parish in the distant Gołdap , a subsidiary parish of Suwałki in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Only after 1945 did Catholic life flourish in Szarejki due to the influx of new settlers. The village became a parish again, but now subordinated to the Catholic deanery in Olecko Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny and belonging to the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . The parish comprises ten localities and also looks after the branch chapel parish in Stożne (Stoosznen , 1938 to 1945 Stosnau) .

Personalities

• Johannes Maurach (born May 31, 1883 in Schareyken, † 1951), German theater actor and director

traffic

Szarejki is conveniently located just two kilometers west of the major north-south traffic axis, the Polish state road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ), and can be reached via a spur road that branches off south of Kowale Oleckie . Until 1993 there was a connection to the Ełk – Tschernjachowsk (Lyck – Insterburg) railway with the Stożne or Kowale Oleckie railway stations , which has not been operated since then.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Schareiken (2005)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Szarejki - Schareyken / Schareiken
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke: District Schareyken / Schareiken
4. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Oletzko
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Treuburg (Oletzko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 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. 66
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 116, figs. 524 and 525
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484
9. ↑ The Parafia Szarejki on the website of the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 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.