Starlings Cimochy

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Stare Cimochy (Poland)
Starlings Cimochy
Starlings Cimochy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Kalinowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '49 "  N , 22 ° 44' 38"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 19-314
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Maże / ext. 661Ginie - Grabowo
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Stare Cimochy ( German  Alt Czymochen , 1929–1945 Finsterwalde ) is a village in the northeastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), belonging to the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen ).

Geographical location

The village is located 4.5 kilometers east of the town of Kalinowo on a country road from Maże (Maaschen , 1938 to 1945 Maschen (Eastern Pr.)) To Ginie (Gingen) , 27 kilometers northeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

Alt Czymochen was founded in 1474.

With the Prussian territorial reform of May 27, 1874, the village belonged administratively as a rural community to the district of Kallinowen in the district of Lyck , which, in addition to Alt Czymochen, included the communities of Dorschen , Gingen , Iwaschken , Kallinowen , Kokosken , Kowahlen (Kr.Lyk), Maaschen , Marczynowen , Pientken and Trentowsken included.

On December 1, 1910, 135 inhabitants were counted in Alt Czymochen.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Alt Czymochen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Alt Czymochen, 80 people voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not.

Old Czymochen was renamed Finsterwalde on June 18, 1929 in the course of the increasing Germanization of place names of Masurian origin , which was done by deriving from the Slavic word ciemmy for dark on which the place name Czymochen is based .

In 1931 the district of Kallinowen was restructured with the now associated villages Blumental , Dluggen , Dorschen, Finsterwalde, Gingen, Hennenberg , Iwaschken, Kallinowen, Kolleschnicken , Kreuzborn , Maaschen, Martinshöhe and Prawdzisken .

In 1933 there were 143 inhabitants in Finsterwalde (Alt Czymochen), in 1939 there were only 129 inhabitants.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Finsterwalde , which was part of the German Empire ( East Prussia ) , fell to Poland. The resident German population, as far as they had not fled, was largely expelled after 1945 and replaced by new citizens from other parts of Poland in addition to the traditional Masurian minority. The place was renamed "Stare Cimochy".

From 1975 to 1998 Stare Cimochy belonged to what was then the Suwałki Voivodeship , then joined the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999 .

church

Until 1945 Alt Czymochen resp. Finsterwalde in the Protestant Church in Prawdzisken (1934 to 1945 Reiffenrode , Polish Prawdziska ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union as well as in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Andreas parish there in the Diocese of Ermland .

Today Stare Cimochy still belongs to the Church Św. Andrzeja Apostoła in Prawdziska, which is now assigned to the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The evangelical inhabitants cold themselves to the parish in the district town Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code List 2013, p. 1194
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Finsterwalde
  3. Rolf Jehke, Dluggen / Kallinowen / Dreimühlen district
  4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
  5. 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. 82
  6. a b Alt Czymochen
  7. 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).
  8. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493