Knis

Knis
	Knis
	Knis
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Ryn
Geographic location :	53 ° 58 ' N , 21 ° 31' E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '25 " N , 21 ° 31' 22" E
Residents :	80 (2007)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ryn ↔ Salpik - Nakomiady
	Knis-Podewsie → Knis
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Knis ( German Gneist ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural municipality Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Knis is located on the west bank of the Guber ( German Guber Lake ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) and four kilometers northwest of the city of Ryn (Rhine) .

history

Knies before 1785 and then Gniest and Gneist until 1945 , the village was founded in 1484. In 1785 the place had 43 fireplaces .

From 1874 to 1945 Gneist was Amtsdorf and thus eponymous for an administrative district that belonged to the district of Lötzen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: administrative district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, Gneisthöhe ( Polish: Knis-Podewsie ) and Gneisenau (Gnieździenko) registered a total of 405 inhabitants. Their number decreased to 347 by 1933 and was still 312 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Gneist belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Gneist, 320 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

As a result of the war, Gneist came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Knis”. Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo), responsible for Knis, Knis-Podewsie (Gneisthöhe) and Mleczkowo (Reichenhof) , and a place in the network of the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki (district of Lötzen ), before 1998 in the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Gneist District (1874–1945)

The Gneist district originally included five places:

Surname	Change name (1938 to 1945)	Polish name	Remarks
Gneiss		Knis
Little Rhine		Ryn Mały	before 1928 in the town of Rhine incorporated
Krzy creams	(from 1927 :) Steinwalde	Krzyżany
Slabowing	(from 1928 :) Langenwiese	Słabowo
Weydicken	Weidicken	Wejdyki

On January 1, 1945, Gneist, Langenwiese, Steinwalde and Weidicken were still incorporated into the district.

Religions

Until 1945 Gneist was parish in the Protestant parish church of the Rhine in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina in Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Knis belongs to the Evangelical Parish Ryn in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic Parish Church Immaculate Conception of Mary in Ryn within the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Knis lies on a side road that runs from Ryn (Rhine) via Salpik (Salpkeim) to Nakomiady (Eichmedien) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ). There is also a country road from Knis-Podewsie (Gneisthöhe) to the village.

Until 1971, Gneist (Knis) was a train station on the Reimsdorf – Rhein (Sławkowo – Ryn) line, which was operated by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen before 1945 and later by the Polish State Railway (PKP) . Today there is no rail connection.

Individual evidence

^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gneist
↑ ^a ^b ^c Gneist at GenWiki
^ ^A ^b Rolf Jehke, Gneist District
↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 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. 79
↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 492-493

[1] Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Gneist

[wiki-2] Gneist at GenWiki

[Jehke-3] A ^b Rolf Jehke, Gneist District

[4] Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] 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. 79

[7] Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 492-493