Szczecinki

Szczecinki
	Szczecinki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Olecko
Geographic location :	54 ° 5 '  N , 22 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '49 "  N , 22 ° 35' 18"  E
Residents :	201 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 653 : ( Olecko -) Sedranki ↔ Bakałarzewo - Suwałki - Sejny - Poćkuny
	Krupin - Raczki Wielkie → Szczecinki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szczecinki ( German  Sczeczinken , 1916 to 1945 Eichhorn ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Szczecinki is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , just a few kilometers from its border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , which here is not entirely congruent with the former German-Polish border. The district town of Olecko is seven kilometers to the south-west.

history

The village called Zierenberg and Zinnenberg at the time was founded in 1563. Before 1785 the place was called Szezincken , after 1818 Szczesczinken , and until 1916 Sczeczinken .

In 1874, the rural community of Sczeczinken was incorporated into the newly established district of Krupinnen ( Krupin in Polish ), which existed until 1945 and belonged to the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945: Treuburg district) in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1874 Sczeczinken was also assigned to the Marggrabowa -Land registry office , until the village itself became the seat of a registry office in 1913 in connection with the formation of its own parish .

In 1910 a total of 325 inhabitants were registered in Sczeczinken. Six years later - on March 22, 1916 - the village was renamed "Eichhorn".

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Eichhorn belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Eichhorn, 234 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

Eichhorn had 296 inhabitants in 1933, 291 in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Szczecinki”. The place is today the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural community Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Church building

Church with a cemetery

Szczecinki Church

Sczeczinken / Eichhorn only received its own Protestant church in 1927/28. The new building had a polygonal end and a small built -in lattice tower . There was originally a crucifixion group on the simple altar . The simply decorated pulpit was to the right of the altar resting on a pedestal and provided with a sound cover. Due to its rededication to a Catholic place of worship after 1945, the building was changed according to the liturgical requirements. It bears the name Kościół św. Stanisława ( German  St. Stanislaus Church ).

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

Sczeczinken became a Protestant parish in 1913 and - separated from the surrounding parishes - provided with a spacious parish . As an independent parish, however, it was connected to the rectory in Mieruniszki (Mierunsken , 1938 to 1945 Merunen) until 1945 . The parish of Mierunsken / Sczeczinken (Merunen / Eichhorn) belonged to the parish of Oletzko (Treuburg) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1925 the parish of Mierunsken / Eichhorn had a total of 5622 parishioners, 1800 of whom lived in the Eichhorn district. Flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war made community life no longer possible. Protestant church members living in Szczecinki today orientate themselves towards the parish church in Suwałki with the branch church in Gołdap in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

To the parish of Sczeczinken resp. Eichhorn owned ten villages, localities and residential areas:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Borawsken	Deutscheck	Borawskie		New Retzken		Nowe Raczki
Dombrowsken	King's Rest	Dąbrowskie		Cells	Siebenbergen	Przytuły
Great Retzken		Raczki Wielkie		Rehfeld		Godziejewo
Klein Retzken		Raczki Małe		Prongs	(from 1916 :) Eichhorn	Szczecinki
Krzysöwken	Kreuzdorf	Krzyżewko		Urbanken		Urbanki

Pastor (until 1945)

The pastor responsible for Sczeczinken and Eichhorn lived in Mierunsken (1938 to 1945 Merunen , in Polish Mieruniszki ). But in Sczeczinken / Eichhorn special auxiliary preachers were appointed, and from 1935 onwards an own pastor was also appointed:

Bernhard Czekey, 1905-1906 Ernst Willamowski, 1919–1920 Heinrich Zimmermann, until 1926 Ernst Paul Günther, until 1927 Adalbert Gundel, until 1929 Bruno Brombach, 1932 Manfred Mühle, 1935–1945.

Roman Catholic

Until 1945 lived in Sczeczinken resp. Eichhorn relatively few Catholics . They belonged to the parish church in Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945: Treuburg, Polish Olecko) in the Diocese of Warmia .

After 1945 many Polish citizens settled in Szczecinki, almost all of them of the Catholic denomination. They took over the "orphaned" Protestant church, redesigned it into their parish church and dedicated it to the bishop and martyr Stanislaus of Cracow .

In the meantime, a separate parish has also been established here. She is in the Dean's Office Olecko - św. Jana Apostoła incorporated into the Diocese of Ełk ( German  Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

The Parish in the Szczecinki was the Maximilian Kolbe dedicated Filialkirche in Krupin (Krupinnen) assigned.

traffic

Szczecinki is located on the Polish Voivodeship Road 653 (between 1939 and 1944 part of the German Reichsstraße 127 ), which connects the regions of Olecko ( Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ) and Suwałki and Sejny ( Podlaskie Voivodeship ). In addition, a side street coming from the southern neighboring town of Krupin (Krupinnen) via Raczki Wielkie (Groß Retzken) ends in Szczecinki.

There is no longer a train connection. Until 1945 Dombrowsken (1938 to 1945: Königsruh, Polish Dąbrowskie) was the next train station and was on the Marggrabowa – Garbassen ( Polish Olecko – Garbas Drugi ) of the Oletzkoer (Treuburger) Kleinbahnen .

Web links

Commons : Szczecinki  - 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. 1253
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Eichhorn
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Krupinnen district
5. ↑ ^{a b c} prongs
6. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
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. 64
8. ^ 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). 
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 115, fig. 520, 521
10. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484
11. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 130
12. ^ Parafia Szczecinki