Szarek (Ełk)

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Szarek (Poland)
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Szarek
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '1 "  N , 22 ° 17' 2"  E
Residents : 93 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : 1925N: Nowa Wieś Ełcka - Szarejki → Szarek
Chruściele → Szarek
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Szarek ( German  Sarken ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Szarek on the west bank of the Sarker See ( Polish: Jezioro Szarek ) is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and west of the Góra Bunelka (Bunelkahöhe) with an altitude of 167 meters. The district town of Ełk (Lyck) is five kilometers northeast.

history

The village, called Sarcken after 1785 and Sarken until 1945, was founded in 1483 and consisted of an estate and several farmsteads. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District incorporated Elk country whose official residence in Neuendorf ( Polish Nowa Wieś Ełcka was). Until 1945, he belonged to the circle elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Sarken had 149 inhabitants, 72 of whom belonged to the rural community and 77 to the manor district . Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sarken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Dorf and Gut Sarken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes. On September 30, 1928, the Sarken estate was incorporated into the rural community of Sarken. The population was 141 in 1933 and 122 in 1939.

Memorial stone for the last landowner on Sarken

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Szarek”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Before 1945 Sarken was 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 Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Szarek belongs to the Catholic parishes of Nowa Wieś Ełcka and Ełk , both in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk, which is now a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Memorial cross and plaque at the Bunelka Memorial Cemetery

Bunelka Cemetery of Honor 1914–1918

On the Bunelkahöhe in the east of the village there is a military cemetery (in Polish : Cmentarz wojenny "Bunelka" ), which commemorates the war in 1915 near Lyck. In Polish, 23 German and 64 Russian soldiers are named who were buried together in the cemetery. A six-meter-high wooden cross placed on a stone base draws attention to the memorial, which is visible from afar.

traffic

Szarek is located on the side road 1925N, which comes from Nowa Wieś Ełcka (Neuendorf) on the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ) and ends in Szarek via Szarejki (Sareyken , 1938 to 1945 Sareken) . There is also a road connection from Chruściele (Chrosczialen , 1933 to 1945 Kreuzfeld) to here. There is no train connection.

Web links

Commons : Szarek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 1226
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sarken
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Lyck-Land
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ 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. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
  10. ↑ Sarken