Zalesie (Świętajno)

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Zalesie (Poland)
Zalesie
Zalesie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Olecko
Gmina : Świętajno
Geographic location : 54 ° 2 '  N , 22 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '28 "  N , 22 ° 14' 34"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-411
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NOE
Economy and Transport
Street : Wronki / ext. 655 → Zalesie
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Zalesie ( German  Salleschen , 1938 to 1945 Tannau (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community Świętajno ( Schwentainen ) in the Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ).

Geographical location

Zalesie is located in the east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 17 kilometers west of the district town of Olecko ( Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1928 to 1945 Treuburg ).

history

In 1567 the village called Saleschen after 1818 , then Salleschen until 1938 , was founded. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the Wessolowen district ( Wesołowo in Polish , the place no longer exists today), which was continued from 1938 as the " Fronicken district " (the place was called "Wronken" until 1938) and the Oletzko district (1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Salleschen had a total of 423 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 361 by 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Salleschen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Salleschen, 276 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938, Salleschen was renamed "Tannau (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. As such, its population was 324 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the place came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish place name "Zalesie". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a district of the rural community Świętajno ( Schwentainen ) in Powiat Olecki ( Oletzko district , from 1933 to 1945 Treuburg district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then assigned to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Salleschen resp. Tannau parish into the Evangelical Church of Schwentainen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and into the Catholic parish church of Marggrabowa (1928 to 1945 Treuburg , Polish Olecko ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, Zalesie belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy ( Widminnen ), a branch of the parish Giżycko ( Lötzen ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish Świętajno in the Diocese of Ełk ( Lyck ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Zalesie can be easily reached via the voivodship road DW 655 , from which a feeder road branches off in Wronki ( Wronken , Fronicken 1938 to 1945 ). Until 1945 Wronki ( Fronicken ) was also the nearest train station. It lay on the Kruglanken – Marggrabowa ( Oletzko / Treuburg ) ( Polish: Kruklanki – Olecko ) railway line until it was decommissioned as a result of the war.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1583
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Tannau (Ostpr.)
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Wessolowen / Fronicken district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Oletzko
  5. ^ A b 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
  7. ↑ a b Salleschen (Oletzko district)
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 484