Konopki (Biała Piska)

Konopki also: Kolonia Konopki
	Konopki also: Kolonia Konopki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 37 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '24 "  N , 22 ° 5' 13"  E
Residents :	128 (2011)
Postal code :	12-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	1678N: Biała Piska / DK 58 ↔ Kruszewo - Dmusy - Rożyńsk Wielki - Taczki
	Ext. 667 : Biała Piska ↔ Sulimy - Drygały - Nowa Wieś Ełcka (–Ełk)
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Konopki ( German  Konopken , 1938 to 1945 Mühlengrund ) and Kolonia Konopki are two localities within the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship that belong to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality of Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Konopki is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 19 kilometers east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ). Two kilometers to the west is the village of Kolonia Konopki.

history

Konopki

In 1435 the small village called Konopke after 1579 and Konopken until 1938 was founded by the Teutonic Knight Order as a freehold with 16 hooves under Cologne law .

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

The number of inhabitants of Konopken was 156 in 1910 and 150 in 1933. On June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1938, Konopken was renamed “Mühlengrund (Ostpr.”) For political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. ) " Renamed . The population was 136 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 along with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name "Konopki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village 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. Konopki had a population of 128 in 2011.

Kolonia Konopki

The small Kolonia Konopki is a dependent village within the urban and rural municipality of Biała Piska . Nothing is documented about its history or a German name before 1945, and it can be assumed that it was only created after 1945.

Religions

Until 1945 Konopken resp. Mühlengrund in the Evangelical 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 Konopki belongs with Kolonia Konopki to the parish Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents are also oriented towards Biała Piska, whose parish is a subsidiary of the Pisz parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

school

Konopken became a school location in 1855.

traffic

Konopki is located on Droga powiatowa 1678N, which leads from Biała Piska to Taczki (Tatzken) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ). Provincial road 667 runs through Kolonia Konopki .

The railway line Olsztyn – Ełk (Allenstein – Lyck) runs east past Konopki - albeit without stopping - so that the village has no railway connection.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 500
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Mühlengrund
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Konopken / Mühlengrund in family research Sczuka .- In contrast to Dietrich Lange, in family research Sczuka the founding date is 1519
4. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Belzonzen / Großdorf (Ostpr.)
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
6. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
8. ^ Wieś Konopki w liczbach
9. ↑ " District Road "