Zdunki

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Zdunki
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Zdunki (Poland)
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Zdunki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 45 '  N , 22 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '49 "  N , 22 ° 20' 50"  E
Residents : 58 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 65 : ( Russia -) Gołdap - Olecko - Ełk ↔ Grajewo - Białystok - Bobrowniki (- Belarus )
Bobry / 1868N– Bobry → Zdunki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Zdunki [ ˈzdunki ] ( German  Sdunken , 1938 to 1945 Ulrichsfelde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Ełk ( rural community Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Zdunki is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers south of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

In 1465, the small, after 1785 was Sdunken after 1818 Zdunken and until 1938 Sdunken called village founded. Between 1874 and 1945 it was in the District Ostrokollen ( Polish Ostrykół ) incorporated, which - renamed "District Scharfenrade" 1938 - the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

165 inhabitants were registered in Sdunken in 1910. Their number decreased to 163 by 1933 and amounted to 155 in 1939. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sdunken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany ) or the connection to Poland. In Sdunken, 100 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938 Sdunken was for political-ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names in "Ulrich Field (East Prussia.)" Renamed .

As a result of the war, the village and the entire southern East Prussia were transferred to Poland in 1945 and received the Polish form of the name “Zdunki”. Today it is part of the Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) Bobry (Bobern) and is therefore a village of the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Sdunken resp. Ulrichsfelde in the Evangelical Church of Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrykół ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Zdunki belongs to the parish Nowa Wieś Ełcka ( German  Neuendorf ) with the branch church in Bobry (Bobern) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members stick to the parish in Ełk , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Zdunki is located on the Polish state road 65 (here in the section of the former German Reichsstrasse 132 ), which runs from the Polish-Russian state border to the Polish-Belarusian border and connects the two Voivodships Warmia-Masuria and Podlaskie with each other. In addition, a side road from Bobry (Prostki municipality) through Bobry (Ełk municipality) ends in Zdunki. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1601
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Ulrichsfelde
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ostrokollen / Scharfenrade district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. 87
  8. ↑ Gmina Ełk
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494
  10. ↑ Sdunken
  11. ^ Parafia Nowa Wieś Ełcka