Zelki (Wydminy)

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Zelki (Poland)
Zelki
Zelki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '16 "  N , 22 ° 5' 30"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 656 : ( Giżycko -) Staświny ↔ Ełk
Klusy / DK 16 - Skomack Wielki → Zelki
Pańska Wola → Zelki,
and Krzywe → Zelki
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Church of Zelki / Neuhoff (2019)

Zelki [ ˈzɛlki ] ( German  Neuhoff ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Zelki is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 27 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The manor and church village with its forestry department was founded in 1513. At that time it was called Selken , after 1871 also Neuhof and until 1945 Neuhoff . The forestry department was built 3.5 kilometers west of the village.

On March 29, 1874 Neuhoff office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In the same period Neuhoff was the seat of a registry office .

In 1910 the Neuhoff manor district had 368 inhabitants.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Neuhof belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Neuhof, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the town, which had meanwhile been converted into a rural community , expanded to include three neighboring villages: Berghof ( Berkowo in Polish ), Heybutten (Hejbuty) and Krzywen (Sodrest) (1938 to 1945 Kriewen, Krzywe in Polish). The population rose to 659 by 1933 and was still 619 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Neuhoff came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and has been using the Polish form of name "Zelki" ever since. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and a village in the network of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Neuhoff District (1874–1945)

The Neuhoff district existed for 71 years and was originally made up of eleven villages:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Remarks
Berghof Berkowo 1928 incorporated into Neuhoff
(Noble) Bialla Bleichenau Biała Giżycka 1928 incorporated into Adlig Wolla
Heybutten Hejbuty 1928 incorporated into Neuhoff
Krzywen (sod residue) Kriewen Krzywe 1928 incorporated into Neuhoff
Mallinken (from 1930 :)
Birkfelde		 Malinka
Neuhoff Zelki
Pammer Pamry 1928 incorporated into Mallinken
Rants Ranty 1928 incorporated into Radzien in the
district of Groß Gablick
Rostken Rostki 1928 incorporated into Talken
Werder Ostrów 1928 incorporated into Adlig Wolla
(Noble) Wolla Freihausen Pańska Wola
from 1929: Talken Talki belonged to the
district of Groß Konopken until 1929

On January 1, 1945, only four municipalities formed the district: Birkfelde, Freihausen, Neuhoff and Talken.

church

Church building

The first and from the outset Protestant church in Selken was built in 1550 under Baron Wolf von Heydeck . In 1840 it had to be demolished because it was in a state of disrepair and was replaced by a successor building from 1842 to 1844, the design of which was influenced by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In 1932 the church burned down and in 1934 it was replaced by a new building designed by the architect Maurer in Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn in Polish ). The artistic painting was done by Paul Koralus from Widminnen (Wydminy), u. a. through a mural "The Fish Catch of Peter" behind the altar.

The church, which was Protestant until 1945, is now a Catholic parish church and bears the name of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd .

Parish

Evangelical

Originally the parish Selken respectively belonged. Neuhoff with her parish for the Inspection Lyck ( Polish Ełk ), which encompasses several villages , then until 1945 to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had 1,760 parishioners.

Flight and expulsion of the local population initially made church life no longer possible. There are only a few Protestant church members in the Zelki region today, but they now belong to the parish in Wydminy in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Roman Catholic

Until 1945 the numerically few Catholic church members in the Neuhoff area were parish in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Due to the relocation of numerous new Polish citizens, a new community was able to establish itself in Zelki after 1945. Initially supervised by Stare Juchy (Alt Jucha , 1938 to 1945 Fließdorf) , a separate parish was established here in 1978, comprising 16 villages and belonging to the Deanery Giżycko - św. Krysztofa in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) belongs to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

The traffic connection Zelki is favorable. There has been no connection to the rail network since on September 1, 2009 passenger traffic on the Czerwonka – Ełk (Rothfließ – Lyck) railway with the nearest railway station Skomack Wielki (Skomatzko , 1938 to 1945 Dippelsee) was discontinued. Zelki benefits from the voivodship road DW 656 , which runs through the village and connects the two district towns of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Ełk (Lyck) . A side road leads from the Polish state road DK 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ) directly to Zelki. In addition, two country roads from the neighboring villages of Pańska Wola (Adlig Wolla , 1938 to 1945 Freihausen) and Krzywe (Krzywen (Sodrest) , 1938 to 1945 Kriewen) end in the village.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1602
  2. ↑ a b Zelki - Neuhoff
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Neuhoff
  4. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Neuhoff district
  5. ↑ a b Neuhoff (district of Lötzen)
  6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  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. 81
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2, Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 122, fig. 563 and 564
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492
  11. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 101