Puńsk
| Puńsk Punskas |
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Podlaskie | ||
| Powiat : | Sejneński | ||
| Gmina : | Puńsk | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 15 ′ N , 23 ° 11 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 1336 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 16-515 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | BSE | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
| Kaunas (Lithuania) | |||
Puńsk ( Lithuanian Punskas ) is a village in Poland with more than 1300 inhabitants and the capital of the rural municipality of the same name , which has been bilingual (Polish and Lithuanian) since 2006. The place is located 23 kilometers northeast of Suwałki on the border with Lithuania and belongs to the powiat Sejneński .
history
The area around Puńsk belongs to the historical Sudauen and was inhabited by Jatwingern , a West Baltic tribe, in the neighborhood of Prussian tribes. In the 13th century the area was conquered by the Teutonic Knights . After the resistance of the Prussians and Jatwingern was broken, parts of the population were resettled in Samland ( Sudauer Winkel ). Until the 15th century, the area was very sparsely populated and mostly covered by primeval forest. After that, the Lithuanians immigrated and made the land arable. After the arrival of Slavs , today's Slavic-speaking (Polish-Belarusian) population emerged on the West Baltic substrate . A part of the Jatwingers (especially in northern Sudauen) acculturated to the Lithuanian .
In 1597 a church with a parish was founded by a Pole in the city of Punsk. Soon afterwards the city charter must have been granted by the Lithuanian king. From 1606, the citizens of Puńsk are also mentioned in documents. Until the third partition of Poland in 1795, Punskas remained part of the Greater Lithuanian Principality. In 1852 Punskas lost its town charter again. During the First World War , the residents spoke out in favor of Lithuania in 1917 . In 1920 Puńsk was assigned to Poland . In addition to the predominantly Jewish population, there were also German families in the city of Puńsk and the surrounding area until the Second World War .
Today Puńsk belongs to the predominantly Lithuanian area in Poland. In the last Polish census in 2002, 74.9% of the community population claimed to be Lithuanian. The place has the only Lithuanian school in the country, has been officially bilingual since 2006 and introduced bilingual place names in 2008. A biweekly local newspaper “Aušra” appears. The city is also the center of Lithuanian folk culture as well as the economic exchange between the two countries. There are three museums, one of which is the Lithuanian Open Air Museum.
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Puńsk / Punskas has an area of 138.37 km².
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Polish Statistical Office ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
