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[edit] History of Lyck

The current town of Elk was for centuries known as Lyck, which was build in the Old Prussian Land of Sudauen (Latin Sudovia), later called East Prussia and part of Germany.

In the middle ages Lyck (1398 recorded as Zur Lycke) was a home town of German crusaders, who built a little castle, which still exists.

The German Writer Siegfried Lenz was born in Lyck.

In 1945 the town was conquered and is now called Elk.

The inhabitants of Lyck, who fled throughout WWI did not return“after the war“ but after the defeat of russian troops at Tannenberg and masuria in 1914/15.

The town was not “occupied by english and italien troops untill the treaty of Versailles", but these troops supervised the plebiscite in July 1920 as o condition of the Treaty of Versailles. (62.180.160.90 (talk) 08:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC))