Szeszki (Wieliczki)

Szeszki
	Szeszki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Wieliczki
Geographic location :	53 ° 57 '  N , 22 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '50 "  N , 22 ° 38' 37"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Niedźwiedzkie / ext. 655 → Szeszki
	Cimochy / ext. 655 → Szeszki
	Wierzbowo / ext. 661 → Szeszki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szeszki ( German  Seesken , 1938 to 1945 Draheim ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko / Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Szeszki is located in north-eastern Poland only about 40 kilometers south of the border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and about 40 kilometers west of the border with Lithuania . Szeszki is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, six kilometers west of the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship . Up to the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) it is 14 kilometers in a north-westerly direction.

history

The village, called Koreff when it was founded in 1508 , later also Cureff (before 1785), then Seesken (also with the addition: Parish Groß Czymochen / Parish Reuss ), was incorporated into the newly established Wielitzken District ( Polish: Wieliczki ) in 1874, the - 1938 Renamed to “District Wallenrode” - existed until 1945 and belonged to the Oletzko district - called “ Landkreis Treuburg ” from 1939 to 1945 - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 269 inhabitants registered in Seesken. Their number rose to 398 by 1933 and was still 363 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, 276 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

For political-ideological reasons to ward off foreign-sounding place names, Seesken was renamed “Draheim” in 1938. In 1945, the village came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and carries since then the Polish place name "Szeszki". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) in the association of the rural community Wieliczki in Powiat Olecki , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship belongs.

church

The predominantly Protestant residents of Seeskens resp. The Draheims were parish in the parish of Groß Czymochen (1928 to 1945: Reuss, in Polish Cimochy ), which belonged to the Oletzko / Treuburg parish within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today, Suwałki is the responsible parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Before 1945, the Catholic church members were oriented towards Marggrabowa / Treuburg ( Polish Olecko ) in what was then the diocese of Warmia . The parish church is now in Cimochy in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Szeszki can be reached from the Voivodship Road 655 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ), which connects the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie Voivodships , both from Niedźwiedzkie (Niedzwetzken , Bärengrund from 1926 to 1945 ) and from Cimochy (Groß Czymochen , Reuss from 1928 to 1945 ) . In addition, a side road coming from the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) leads from Wierzbowo (Wiersbowen , 1932 to 1945 Waldwerder) into the village.

Until 2010 there was a train connection via the station in Cimochy on the PKP line 39 Olecko – Suwałki , which was closed to passenger traffic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To distinguish it from the Seesken of the same name and also located in the Oletzko / Treuburg district, Parish Schareyken
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Draheim
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Wielitzken / Wallenrode district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality 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. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 66
7. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484