Szyba (Ełk)

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Szyba (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Powiat : Ełk
District of: Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '11 "  N , 22 ° 22' 7"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-300
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 65 : ( Russia -) Gołdap - Olecko - EłkNowa Wieś Ełcka - Grajewo - Białystok - Bobrowniki (- Belarus )
Tama / DK 61 - Wiśniowo Ełckie - Regielnica → Szyba
Director → Szyba
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk
train station: Ełk Szyba Zachód
Giżycko – Białystok
railway station: Ełk Szyba Wschód
Next international airport : Danzig



Szyba ( German  Sybba , 1938 to 1945 Walden ) is a subdistrict in the city of Ełk ( German  Lyck ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Szyba is three kilometers south of the city center of Ełk on the east bank of the Jezioro Ełckie ( German  Lycker See ) and west of the Jezioro Szyba . In the west Szyba borders on Osiedle Jeziorna , in the north on Osiedle Kochanowskiego and in the east on Osiedle Wczasowe .

history

The village, called Syba until 1818 and Sybba from 1818, with later forestry was founded in 1566. Between 1898 and 1905 which was rural community Sybba in Gutsbezirk Ełk region forest in the district of Elk, Forest, incorporated. He belonged to the circle elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1895 the village had 285 inhabitants.

On December 23, 1927, the new rural community Sybba was formed from parts of the rural community Barannen ( Barany in Polish ) and the Baranner Forest manor . Until 1945 the place was included in the district of Selment (1938 to 1945 "District of Schönhorst (Ostpr.)"), Which had its seat in Klein Mrosen ( Polish Mrozy Małe ).

In 1933 Sybba had a total of 799 inhabitants. On June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16), the village was renamed "Walden". It was ideologically and politically justified with the defense against foreign-sounding place names. In 1939 there were 853 residents registered in Walden.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Szyba". Until 1954/55 it belonged to Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ), which was dissolved. Since 1955 Szyba has been part of the city of Ełk (Lyck) , the metropolis of the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), now in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Until 1945 Sybba / Walden was parish in the Evangelical 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 .

Today the Catholic residents of Szyba belong to the parish of Św. Rafała Kalinowskiego in Ełk-Jeziorna in the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in Ełk-Centrum, a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities of the place

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Horst Großmann (born November 19, 1891 in Sybba), German officer, general of the infantry († 1972)

Connected to the place

The writers brothers

grew up in the forester's house Sybba from 1864.

traffic

The railway station Ełk Szyba Zachód (Sybba West / Walden West) on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
The Ełk Szyba Wschód (Sybba Ost / Walden Ost) railway station on the Giżycko – Białystok railway line

Street

Szyba is located on the Polish state road 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ), which connects the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with the Podlaskie Voivodeship between the state border with Russia and that with Belarus . Regional roads from the south-eastern area end in Szyba.

rails

Szyba is connected to the rail network with two train stations. The railway station Ełk Szyba Zachód (Sybba West / Walden West) is on the Olsztyn – Ełk (Allenstein – Lyck) railway line , the Ełk Szyba Wschód (Sybba Ost / Walden Ost) railway station on the Głomno – Białystok railway , which began in 1945 Königsberg (Prussia) ( Russian: Kaliningrad ) took, but is only used on Polish territory between Korsze (Korschen) and Białystok .

Web links

Commons : Szyba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 244
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Walden
  3. a b c Sybba
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Selment / Schönhorst district
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 493–494
  8. ^ Prominent residents of Elk
  9. Prochladnoje - Schuiken / Spechtsboden