Urbanki (Wieliczki)

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Urbanki (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Wieliczki
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '29 "  N , 22 ° 38' 1"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-404
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Krzyżewko ↔ Rynie - Nieszki
Bakałarzewo / ext. 653 - Konopki - Karasiewo → Urbanki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Urbanki ( German  Urbanken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural municipality of Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933 to 1945 ).

Geographical location

Urbanki is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, only three hundred meters from the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , which marks the former state border between Germany and Poland. The district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg) is nine kilometers to the west.

history

Which at the time Urbannen before 1785 Urbahncken and after 1785 Urbancken called village was founded in the 1558th Between 1874 and 1945 Urbanken was in the District Markowsken ( Polish Markowskie ) incorporated, which - renamed "District Markau (East Prussia)." 1938 - the county Oletzko (1933 and 1945 was: district Treuburg) in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Urbanken had 77 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 64 by 1925, was 59 in 1933 and was 69 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Urbanken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Urbanken, 50 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, Urbanken came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Urbanki”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the rural community Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938 to 1945 Wallenrode) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district from 1933 to 1945 ), until 1998 of the Suwałki voivodeship , since then the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

church

Urbanken was parish up to 1945 in the parish of Szczecinki of the Protestant parish Mierunsken / Eichhorn ( Polish: Mieruniszki / Szczecinki ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (Treuburg) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Catholic residents of Urbankis belong to the parish church in Szczecinki with the branch church Krupin (Krupinnen) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members orient themselves towards the parish in Suwałki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Urbanki is located away from the traffic and can only be reached via secondary roads: from Krzyżewko (Krzysöwken , 1927 to 1945 Kreuzdorf) on the road to Nieszki via Rynie (Ringen) and from the direction of the Podlaskie Voivodeship from Bakałarzewo on the Voivodship road DW 653 (between 1939 and 1944 section of the German Reichsstrasse 127 ) via Karasiewo and Konopki .

There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1315
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Urbanken
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, District Markowsken / Markau (East Pr.)
  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 - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 66