Konopki Wielkie

Konopki Wielkie
	Konopki Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Miłki
Geographic location :	53 ° 54 '  N , 21 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '14 "  N , 21 ° 54' 1"  E
Residents :	410 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	11-513
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Giżycko - Pisz - Łomża - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
	Wydminy / ext. 655 Ranty / ext. 656 - Talki - Konopki Małe → Konopki Wielkie
Rail route :	Lötzen – Johannisburg , closed in 1945
Next international airport :	Danzig

Konopki Wielkie [ kɔˈnɔpki ˈvjɛlkʲɛ ] ( German  Groß Konopken , 1938 to 1945 hemp ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Konopki Wielkie is located 700 meters east of the Ublick Lake ( Jezioro Ublik Wielki in Polish ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 17 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

In 1475 Groß Konopken was founded. On March 29, 1874, the place was Amtsdorf and gave its name to an administrative district, which - renamed "Amt District Hanffen" on November 15, 1938 - until 1945 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 belonged to.

From 1874 to 1945, Groß Konopken was also the seat of a registry office to which the neighboring towns were also assigned. In 1910 the village had 525 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 560.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Groß Konopken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Groß Konopken, 400 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3, 1938, Groß Konopken was renamed “Hanffen” for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names. In 1939 the population was only 503.

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 Wielkie". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ), to which, in addition to Konopki Wielkie, the surrounding villages Jedamki (Jedamken , 1938 to 1945 Stenzeln) , Konopki Nowe and Wyłudki (Willudtken , 1938 to 1945 Heydeck) are assigned. Konopki Wielkie is a district of the rural community Miłki (Milken) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

District of Groß Konopken / Hanffen (1874–1945)

The district of Groß Konopken resp. Hemp consisted of eight assigned villages:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Bilsken	Billsee	Bielskie
Dannowen	Then	Danowo
Big Konopken	Hemp	Konopki Wielkie
Anything	Stenzeln	Jedamki
Klein Konopken	(from 1929 :) Waldfließ	Konopki Małe
Little Skomatzko	Skomand	Skomack Mały
Okrones	Schwansee (Ostpr.)	Okrągłe
Talks		Talki	1929: Reclassification to the Neuhoff district

On January 1, 1945, only seven places formed the Hanffen district: Billsee, Dannen, Hanffen, Schwansee, Skomand, Stenzeln and Waldfließ.

Religions

Until 1945 Groß Konopken was parish in the Protestant Church of Milken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Konopki Wielkie belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a subsidiary of the Giżycko parish in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and the Miłki Catholic parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Konopki Wielkie is located on the important north-south axis, the Polish state road DK 63 (former German Reichsstraße 131 ), which connects the two Voivodeships of Warmia-Masuria and Podlaskie in northeastern Poland . In addition, a side road leads from the eastern powiat Giżycki to Konopki Wielkie, where it connects the voivodeship roads DW 655 and DW 656 to the national road DK 63 .

Between 1906 and 1945, Groß Konopken was a train station on the Lötzen – Arys – Johannisburg railway , which was discontinued due to the effects of the war and was not put back into operation after 1945.

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 501
3. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Hanffen
4. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Konopken / Hanffen
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Groß Konopken
6. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ 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. 79
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492