Szeligi (Ełk)

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Szeligi
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Szeligi (Poland)
Szeligi
Szeligi
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 49 '  N , 22 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '18 "  N , 22 ° 25' 7"  E
Residents : 20 (2006)
Postal code : 19-301
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Ełk / DK 65 ↔ Buczki
Rail route : Ełk train station :
Giżycko – Białystok and Olsztyn – Ełk
Next international airport : Danzig



Szeligi ( German  Seliggen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural municipality of Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Szeligi is located on the western bank of the Great Sellmentsee ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ) in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , four kilometers east of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Founded after 1785 Selligen after 1818 Blessed and until 1945 Seliggen called small village in 1536. In 1874, it came as a rural community for District Selment based in small Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ), which - in 1938 in "District Schönhorst ( Ostpr.) ”- belonged to the Gumbinnen district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Together with the Buczken residential area (1938 to 1945 Kleinseliggen , Buczki in Polish ), which was incorporated between 1888 and 1898 , Seliggen had a total of 302 inhabitants in 1910. Their number was 325 in 1933 and was still 286 in 1939. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Seliggen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany ) or the connection to Poland. In Seliggen, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

As a result of the war, Seliggen was transferred to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 and since then has been given the Polish name "Szeligi". Today the village is assigned to the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Buczki (Buczken , 1938 to 1945 Kleinseliggen) and thus belongs to the group of Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

church

Until 1945, Seliggen 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 . Even today there is a church connection to the district town of Ełk .

traffic

Szeligi can be reached from the district town of Ełk via a side road that leads to Buczki . The next train station is Ełk with the remaining railway lines Giżycko – Białystok and Olsztyn – Ełk .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1255
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Seliggen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Selment / Schönhorst (Ostpr.)
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  5. ↑ 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).
  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. ↑ a b Seliggen
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494