Śniepie

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Śniepie
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Śniepie (Poland)
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Śniepie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Ełk
Geographic location : 53 ° 43 '  N , 22 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '29 "  N , 22 ° 17' 23"  E
Residents : 20 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 19-321
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : 1868N: Bajtkowo / ext. 667 ↔ Borki - Bobry - Niedźwiedzkie / DK 65
Nowa Wieś Ełcka / DK 65 - Niekrasy → Śniepie
Rail route : Olsztyn – Ełk railway line
Railway station: Bajtkowo
Next international airport : Danzig



Śniepie ( German  Schnepien , 1938 to 1945 Schnippen ) 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

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

history

In 1522 the village was first mentioned after 1818 Schnipien , until 1938 Schnepien . It was in the newly built 1,874 District Baitkowen ( Polish Bajtkowo incorporated), which - in 1938 renamed "District Baitenberg" - to 1945 and county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 183 residents registered in Schnepien, in 1933 there were 191. On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schnepien belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 to continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or the connection to Poland. In Schnepien, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3 (officially certified on 16 July) of 1938 Schnepien was foreign-sounding place names in "flipping" of political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population was 167 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name “Śniepie”. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwa ) and as such is a village in the Gmina Ełk (rural municipality Lyck ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Schnepien resp. Snap into the Evangelical Church of Baitkowen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and parish into the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Śniepie belongs to the Catholic parish of Bajtkowo in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The evangelical residents stick to the parish in the town of Ełk , a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Śniepie is on the side road 1868N, which leads from Bajtkowo (Baitkowen , 1938 to 1945 Baitenberg) via Borki (Borken) to Niedźwiedzkie (Niedzwetzken , 1936 to 1945 Wiesengrund) . In addition, a side road from Nowa Wieś Ełcka (Neuendorf) via Niekrasy (Niekrassen , 1938 to 1945 Krassau) ends in Śniepie .

The nearest train station is Bajtkowo on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line.

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. 1264
  3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schnippen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Baitkowen / Baitenberg district
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  6. ^ A b 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. 493
  10. ↑ Schnepien