Woszczele

Woszczele
	Woszczele
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Ełk
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 22 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '30 "  N , 22 ° 14' 37"  E
Residents :	427 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DW 656 : Ełk - Chrzanowo ↔ Grabnik - Zelki - Staświny (- Giżycko )
	Bałamutowo - Królowa Wola → Woszczele
	Małkinie → Woszczele
Rail route :	Korsze – Białystok
Next international airport :	Danzig

Woszczele ( German  Woszczellen , 1928 to 1938 Woszellen , 1938 to 1945 Neumalken ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Lyck in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Woszczele is located on the north bank of the Woszczeller See (1938 to 1945 Neumalker See , Polish Jezioro Woszczelskie ) in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers northwest of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

View of the Jezioro Woszczelskie

history

In 1538 the village called Neu Melkien before 1785 and Woszczellen until 1928 was founded. In 1874 it was in the newly established District grave Nick ( Polish Grabnik ) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 Woszczellen, the spelling of which was changed to "Woszellen" in 1928, had 376 inhabitants. The number of inhabitants rose to 439 by 1933 and amounted to 464 in 1939. Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Woszczellen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Woszczellen, 260 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) of the year 1938, Woszellen was renamed “Neumalken” for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names.

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 "Woszczele". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village within the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Evangelical

Until 1945 Woszczellen (Woszellen) resp. Neumalken in the Protestant church Grabnick in the church province East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union parish. As a result of the war, only a few Protestant church members live in Woszczele today. You stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 only a few Catholics lived in Woszc cells (Wos cells) or. New paint. They belonged to the St. Adalbert Church in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Woszczele has its own Roman Catholic Church, which is a branch church of the Grabnik parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . It bears the name Kaplica Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego ( German  Herz-Jesu-Kirche ).

traffic

Woszczele is conveniently located on the provincial road 656 , the region Elk (Elk) with the region Giżycko (Lötzen) connects. In addition, side streets from Bałamutowo (Ballamutowen , 1934 to 1945 Giersfelde) in the north and from Małkinie (Malkiehnen , 1938 to 1945 Malkienen) in the south end in Woszczele.

Woszczele is a train station on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, geographical register of places in East Prussia (2005): Neumalken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grabnick District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
5. ↑ 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). 
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. 88
7. ↑ Gmina Ełk
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493
9. ↑ Woszc cells