Świdry (Biała Piska)

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Świdry
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Świdry (Poland)
Świdry
Świdry
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 35 '  N , 22 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '34 "  N , 22 ° 10' 52"  E
Residents : 28 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 58 : Olsztynek - Szczytno - Pisz - Biała Piska ↔ Szczuczyn
Łodygowo → Świdry
Cibory - Świdry Kościelne → Świdry
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Świdry [ ˈɕfʲidrɨ ] ( German  Schwiddern ) is a village in the Polish Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Świdry located in the southern eastern part of the Warmia and Mazury and was until 1939 the border station of the German Reich to Poland , now only between the provinces Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie . The district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) is 26 kilometers to the northwest.

history

The after 1540 Schwidren after 1579 Schwidder and until 1945 Schwiddern village called was in 1471 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut eleven hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established.

From 1874 to 1945 the village was incorporated into the Belzonzen district (renamed “Großdorf District (Ostpr.)” In 1938), which belonged to the Johannisburg district .

In 1910 there were 271 residents registered in Schwiddern. Their number was 245 in 1933 and 235 in 1939.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schwiddern belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Schwiddern, 160 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

As a result of the war, the entire southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 , including Schwiddern, which received the Polish form of name “Świdry”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the city and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Voivodeship Suwałki , since then the Voivodeship Warmia- Masuria belonging. The number of inhabitants of Świdry in 2011 was 28.

church

Before 1945 Schwiddern was parish in the Protestant Church of Bialla in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Świdry belongs on the Catholic side as a branch church to the parish Skarżyn in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to their parish in Biała Piska, which is now a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Schwiddern became a school town in 1756.

traffic

Świdry is located on the national road 58 , which is important for traffic , which connects the southeastern Masuria with Podlachia and crosses five districts. In addition, the village can be reached from its neighboring towns in the north and south through a respective side street. There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1269
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schwiddern
  3. ↑ a b c Schwiddern in family research Sczuka
  4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Belzonzen / Großdorf (Ostpr.)
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 77
  8. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
  9. ↑ Wieś Świdry w liczbach
  10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491