Zełwągi

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Zełwągi
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Zełwągi (Poland)
Zełwągi
Zełwągi
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Mrągowo
Gmina : Mikołajki
Geographic location : 53 ° 48 '  N , 21 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '10 "  N , 21 ° 29' 48"  E
Height : 126 m npm
Residents : 356 (2011)
Postal code : 11-730
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NMR
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 16 : Grudziądz - Olsztyn - MrągowoMikołajki - Ełk - Augustów - Ogrodniki (- Lithuania )
Śmietki → Zełwągi
Rail route : Czerwonka – Ełk (not in operation)
Next international airport : Danzig
Warsaw



Zełwągi [ zɛwˈvɔŋgʲi ] (German Selbongen ) is a village with 356 inhabitants, five kilometers west of the city of Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in Poland . Zełwągi belongs to the urban and rural municipality of Mikołajki in the powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ) in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Zełwągi is located on the eastern shore of Inulzensee (1938 to 1945 Schnittker See , Polish Jezioro Inulec ), east of Glomboki Lake (Polish Jezioro Głębokie ) and northwest of Jezioro Płociczne . The district town of Mrągowo (Sensburg) is 15 kilometers to the north-west.

View of the Jezioro Głębokie (Glomboki Lake)
Building in Zełwągi (Selbongen)

history

The village of Selbongen was founded in 1540. In 1785 the spelling Selbungen , 1818 Anointings , occurs. In 1874 Selbongen was incorporated into the newly established district of Schaden ( Stare Sady in Polish ). It existed until 1945 and belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (from 1905: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Before 1945, the districts of Heydebruch belonged to the municipality of Selbongen, from 1928 Klonn (Polish: Klon ) and from 1929 Forsthaus Lissuhnen ( Lisiny ).

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Selbongen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Selbongen, 420 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

Towards the end of the war, the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945. Soon afterwards Selbongen was placed under Polish administration together with the southern half of East Prussia. It was given the Polish form of name "Zełwągi" and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ). As such, it is part of the Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) community in the Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. In 2011 Zełwągi had 356 inhabitants. Most of the inhabitants, unless they had fled during the war, were expelled in 1945 or later resettled and replaced by Poles.

Population numbers

year number
1818 160
1839 124
1867 388
1885 583
1898 596
1905 525
1910 562
1933 607
2011 356

church

Evangelical

Until 1945 Selbongen was a village in the parish of the Evangelical parish church Nikolaiken ( Polish Mikołajki ). It belonged to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . When counting in 1905 it turned out that all 525 inhabitants were of Protestant denomination. Even today Zełwągi is oriented towards Mikołajki and belongs to the local evangelical parish church . This is associated with the branch church in Ukta (Alt Ukta) of the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Catholic

Before 1945 there were very few Catholics in the Selbongen region. The village and its surroundings were part of the Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Sensburg , which belonged to the Diocese of Warmia . Today the parish church for Selbongen stands in the town of Mikołajki , which is now the seat of the deanery and is part of the diocese of Ełk in the Polish Catholic Church .

Others

Mormonism

In relation to its size, Selbongen occupies a large part in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") in Europe: the first meeting house of this church on the European mainland was built here in 1929.

A Selbongen resident joined the church in the early 1920s and later introduced the church to his family and neighbors. Many also joined the Church, and a sizable branch was established. At times the branch had several hundred members, which made up more than half of the residents of Selbongen.

Even after the southern part of East Prussia with Selbongen went to Poland after World War II , the branch of the church remained active there; it was the only Church unit in Poland at the time. The meetings continued to be held in German until it was banned by the Polish government in 1947.

Most of the members who had not died in the war or fled or were expelled shortly afterwards left the place in the following two and a half decades due to the poor economic situation. The Zełwągi Branch was finally closed in 1971 due to the drop in membership; there are currently no members of that church there.

traffic

Bridge of the no longer used Czerwonka – Ełk railway in Zełwągi

Street

The Polish state road 16 (formerly German state road 127 ), which is important for traffic, runs through Zełwągi and connects the three northern voivodships with each other and leads to the Polish-Lithuanian border . There is also a small side road that runs from Śmietki (Schnittken) south of Jezioro Inulec (Inulzensee , 1938 to 1945 Schnittker See) to Zełwągi.

rail

Zełwągi no longer has a connection to the rail network . Until 2009, the place was a train station on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) line, for which there was a direct connection to Königsberg (Prussia) before 1945 . The Polish State Railways no longer use the railway line.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1032
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Selbongen
  3. a b c d Selbongen at GenWiki
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Damage District
  5. 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. 115
  6. a b Wieś Zełwągi w liczbach
  7. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 501