Śwignajno Małe

Śwignajno Małe
	Śwignajno Małe
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Ruciane-Nida
Geographic location :	53 ° 41 ′  N , 21 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 55 "  N , 21 ° 31 ′ 27"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ładne Pole / ext. 610 → Śwignajno Małe
Rail route :	Olsztyn – Ełk train station: Ruciane-Nida
Next international airport :	Danzig

Śwignajno Małe ( German  Klein Schwignainen ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . He belongs to the Gmina Ruciane-Nida ( urban and rural community (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden)) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Śwignajno Małe is located in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 26 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) and 19 kilometers northwest of today's district town Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Klein Schwignainen was founded in 1819. On February 22, 1875 from the forestry colonies Schoenfeld ( Polish Ładne poles ) and small Schwignainen the rural community Schönfeld-Schwignainen formed until 1945 for the district of Ukta in Sensburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged .

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schönfeld-Schwignainen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Schönfeld-Schwignainen, 260 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

The rural community expanded on September 30, 1928 to the neighboring town of Groß Schwignainen ( Polish Śwignajno Wielkie ), which was incorporated. On April 7, 1930, the rural community Schönfeld-Schwignainen was renamed "Schönfeld" (without addition).

When all of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Klein Schwignainen was also affected. The place received the Polish name form "Śwignajno Małe" and is today a place in the network of the urban and rural community Ruciane-Nida (Rudczanny / Niedersee - Nieden) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia Voivodeship -Masures associated.

Religions

Before 1945 Klein Schwignainen was parish in the Protestant church Alt Ukta in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Śwignajno Małe belongs on the Catholic side to the Ukta parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents also orientate themselves towards the church in Ukta, where the old village chapel, now called Petrikirche, is now a branch church of the Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Śwignajno Małe is located north of the provincial road 610 and can be reached directly via Ładne Pole (Schönfeld) . The nearest train station is Ruciane-Nida on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ) line.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Klein Schwignainen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Ukta district
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 500