Szeszki (Kowale Oleckie)

Szeszki
	Szeszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Kowale Oleckie
Geographic location :	54 ° 10 '  N , 22 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '14 "  N , 22 ° 20' 45"  E
Residents :	60 (2006)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowale Oleckie / DK 65 - Chełchy ↔ Góra Szeska
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szeszki [ ˈʂɛʂki ] ( German  Seesken ) 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

Szeszki is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the southern slope of the Seesker Höhe ( Wzgórza Szeskie in Polish ) southeast of the Seesker Berg ( Góra Szeska in Polish ). The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is 19 kilometers to the south-east.

history

The front of 1,785 Domaschin , then to 1945 Seesken , sometimes with the addition parish Schareyken village called was founded 1561st Between 1874 and 1945 the village was incorporated into the Kowahlen District ( Polish: Kowale Oleckie ), which - renamed "Reimannswalde District" in 1939 - to the Oletzko district - called " Treuburg District " from 1939 to 1945 - belonged to the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Sessken had 416 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 270 by 1933 and was only 230 in 1939.

Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Seesken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Seesken, 248 residents voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

In war-induced Seesken 1945 came with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish form of the name "Szeszki". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) as a place in the network of the rural community Kowale Oleckie in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Seesken was parish before 1945 in the parish of the Protestant church Schareyken (1938 to 1945: Schareiken, Polish Szarejki ) and belonged to the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the parish of Suwałki in the diocese of Masuria is responsible for the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

On the Catholic side , the Seesk residents were oriented towards Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945: Treuburg, Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today the village is incorporated into the newly established parish in Kowale Oleckie , which belongs to one of the two deaneries in Olecko in the diocese of Ełk of the Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Szeski is located on a side road that leads from Kowale Oleckie (Kowahlen , 1938 to 1945 Reimannswalde) via Chełchy (Chelchen , 1938 to 1945 foothills) to Seesker Berg ( Góra Szeska in Polish ), the third highest mountain in northern Poland at 309 meters. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ to distinguish it from Seesken (parish Groß Czymochen / Reuss), which is also located in the Oletzko / Treuburg district
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Seesken (2005)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Kowahlen / Reimannswalde
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. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 66