Wilkasy (Wieliczki)

Wilkasy
	Wilkasy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Olecko
Gmina :	Wieliczki
Geographic location :	53 ° 59 ′  N , 22 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 48 "  N , 22 ° 36 ′ 47"  E
Residents :	190 (2006)
Postal code :	19-404
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NOE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Wieliczki / ext. 655 → Wilkasy
Rail route :	Olecko – Suwałki railway line (no regular service)
Next international airport :	Danzig

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

Geographical location

Wilkasy is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers southeast of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928–1945 Treuburg) .

history

In 1508 the village called Wilkossen after 1774 , Wilkaschen after 1785 and Willkassen until 1945 was founded. Between 1874 and 1945 it was the part of administrative district Wielitzken ( Polish Wieliczki ), which - in 1938 in "District Wallenrode" renamed - to circle Oletzko : - in (1933-1945 county Treuburg) Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910, 512 residents were registered in Willkassen. Their number decreased to 420 by 1933 and was still 409 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Willkassen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Willkassen, 378 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Wilkasy". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a village in the Gmina Wieliczki (Wielitzken , 1938–1945 Wallenrode) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , Treuburg district 1933–1945 ), until 1998 of the Suwałki voivodeship , since then the voivodeship Belonging to Warmia-Masuria .

Military cemetery 1914–1918

Entrance to the Wilkasy military cemetery

In Wilkasy there is a cemetery of honor for soldiers who died in the First World War . 43 Russian and 42 German soldiers are remembered who found their final resting place here.

church

Until 1945 Willkassen was parish in the Protestant Church of Wielitzken 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, on the Catholic side, Wilkasy belongs to the Wieliczki parish church in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here orientate themselves to the churches in Ełk ( German  Lyck ) and Suwałki in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Wilkasy can be reached directly from Wieliczki . The village is a train station on the Olecko – Suwałki line, which is no longer regularly used .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1456
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Willkassen
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 - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 67
7. ^ Willkassen military cemetery
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484