Szczudły
| Szczudły | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Ełk | ||
| Gmina : | Kalinowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 52 ' N , 22 ° 31' E | ||
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| Postal code : | 19-314 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | NEL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Golubka / DK 16 - Golubie → Szczudły | ||
| Rail route : | no rail connection | ||
| Next international airport : | Danzig | ||
Szczudły ( German Szczudlen , 1936–1945 Georgsfelde ) is a village in the northeastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), belonging to the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen ).
Geographical location
The village is located about nine kilometers as the crow flies west of the village of Kalinowo on a country road going north from state road 16 near Golubka (Gollupken , 1938 to 1945 Lübeckfelde) . It extends one kilometer southwest of Golubie (Gollubia , 1938 to 1945 Gollen) along the west bank of the 0.83 km² Gollubier Lake (1938 to 1945 Gollen Lake , Polish Jezioro Gulubie ). The district town of Ełk ( Lyck ) is twelve kilometers southwest of Szczudły.
Place name
The name Szczudlen is probably derived from the Slavic word szczudło for stilts in pile construction , which would indicate a boggy bank .
history
Szczudlen was founded in 1483.
On May 27, 1874, in the course of a Prussian community reform, a new Gollupken district (1938 to 1945 "Lübeckfelde district", in Polish Golupka ) was established, which included the communities of Gollubien A , Gollubien B, Gollupken , Groß Skomentnen , Klein Skomentnen, Mikolayken , Saborowen , Szczudlen and Wyssocken included.
On January 1, 1910, Szczudlen still had 126 inhabitants. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Szczudlen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Szczudlen 80 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.
In 1933 there were only 90 inhabitants left in Szczudlen.
Szczudlen was renamed "Georgsfelde" on May 23, 1936 in the course of the massive Germanization of Masurian place names of Baltic or Slavic origin.
In 1938, when Gollupken was renamed Lübeckfelde, the Gollupken district became the Lübeckfelde district, which then comprised the seven newer communities Georgsfelde, Gollen, Lübeckfelde, Reichenwalde (East Pr.), Skomanten, Thomken and Waltershöhe.
In 1939 Georgsfelde (Szczudlen) had 93 inhabitants.
After the Second World War 1945 to fell the German Reich ( East Prussia ), administrative region Olsztyn , County Elk belonging Georg field in Poland. The resident German population, as far as they had not fled, was largely expelled after 1945 and replaced by new citizens from other parts of Poland in addition to the traditional Masurian minority. The place was renamed "Szczudły".
From 1975 to 1998 Szczudły was part of what was then the Suwałki Voivodeship , then in 1999 it joined the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and is therefore part of the Gmina Kalinowo group .
church
Until 1945 Szczudlen resp. Georgsfelde 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, on the Catholic side, Szczudły belongs to the parish church in Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938 to 1945 Kelchendorf) with the branch church in Sędki (Sentken) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Ełk , today a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1254
- ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Georgsfelde
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Gollupken / Lübeckfelde district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
- ↑ 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. 88
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Gmina Kalinowo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Szczudlen
