Sątopy (Bisztynek)

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Sątopy
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Sątopy (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Bartoszyce
Gmina : Bisztynek
Geographic location : 54 ° 4 '  N , 21 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '43 "  N , 21 ° 0' 50"  E
Residents : 1220 (2011)
Postal code : 11-230
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NBA
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 594 : Bisztynek / DK 57Troksy - Reszel - Kętrzyn / ext. 591
Bęsia / ext. 596 - Kolno - Ryn Reszelski → Sątopy
Grzęda - Wojkowo - Sątopy-Samulewo → Sątopy
Rail route : Toruń – Korsze (–Chernyakhovsk)
train station: Sątopy-Samulewo
Next international airport : Danzig



Sątopy ( German  Santoppen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Bisztynek ( town and country municipality Bischofstein ) in the powiat Bartoszycki (district Bartenstein ).

Geographical location

Sątopy is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers west of the town of Reszel ( German  Rößel ) and 25 kilometers southeast of the district town of Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) .

Village view
Farmhouse in Saątopy

history

Local history

Santoppen was founded in 1337. On 9 July 1875, the City Office and village its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and was county Rößel in Administrative district Königsberg : (from 1905 Region of Olsztyn in) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1928, the village of Rosenorther Wald of the Rosenorth manor district ( Koprzywnik in Polish , no longer existent) was incorporated into Santoppen.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Santoppen, 420 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not.

When all of southern East Prussia came to Poland as a result of the war in 1945 , Santoppen was also affected. The village was given the Polish form of the name "Sątopy" and is now part of the municipality of Bisztynek (Bischofstein) in the Powiat Bartoszycki ( Bartenstein district ), until 1998 of the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Population numbers

year number
1820 375
1885 556
1905 558
1910 622
1933 564
1939 563
2011 1,220

District Santoppen (1874–1945)

Initially, there were eight municipal units in the Santoppen district. Due to structural changes, there were four in the end:

German name Polish name Remarks
Heinrichsdorf Wojkowo
Niederhof Nisko 1928 incorporated into Tollnigk
Niedermühle Niski Młyn
Rheinmühle
Rosenorth Koprzywnik 1928 incorporated into Ryn Reszelski
Rose beautiful Nowa Wieś Reszelska
Santoppen Sątopy
Schwedhöfen Świdówka 1928 incorporated into Tornienen
from 1930:
Bischdorf
Sątopy-Samulewo

On January 1, 1945, Bischdorf, Heinrichsdorf, Rosenschön and Santoppen were still part of the Santoppen district.

church

Church history

The church in Sątopy

In 1343 the over appropriated Warmia Bishop Hermann of Prague place Santoppen the cathedral chapter in Frombork ( Polish Frombork ). He used the income to finance the construction and maintenance of the Frauenburg Cathedral . Since then, the pastors in Santoppen have traditionally been members of the cathedral chapter. Embedded in the diocese of Warmia, the pastors in Santoppen did not follow the teachings of the Reformation , but remained loyal to their Roman church. Even today the local parish is a parish of the Polish Catholic Church .

Catholic Church

Church building

The church in Sątopy with its orderly tower stands out due to its elongated nave. In 1343 it was consecrated to St. Jodokus . It was not until 1884 that the sacristy and vestibule were added to the south, while the windows date from 1886. The weather vane was made as early as 1662 .

Inside there is a painted flat ceiling. The church furnishings originate primarily from the 18th century: for example the high altar , probably made by Christian Bernhard Schmidt in 1780 , the [pulpit] from 1701, the baptismal font around 1760 or the organ gallery around 1770. The four wings of the Jodokus altar from 1510 count among them the precious Warmia art treasures. They are now in the museum in Olsztyn (Allenstein) .

Parish

The Sątopy-Samulewo ( German: Bischdorf ) branch church belongs to the parish of Sątopy . Even before 1945 this place was incorporated into Santoppen, together with more than ten villages, places and living spaces that still make up the parish today. The parish belongs to the Deanery Reszel within today's Archdiocese of Warmia .  

Protestant church

On the evangelical side, there is no parish of its own in Sątopy. Until 1945 the place was integrated into the parish of Rößel in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The evangelical residents are now based on Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , which is a branch of the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . This is part of the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Village street in Sątopy

Sątopy is located on the important provincial road 594 , which connects the cities of Bisztynek (Bischofstein) , Reszel (Rößel) and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . There is also a connection to the region via secondary roads. The next train station is Sątopy-Samulewo (until 1945: "Bischdorf (Ostpr.)") On the Toruń – Tschernjachowsk ( German  Thorn – Insterburg ) railway line , which today no longer extends to the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (“Königsberg area”), but only leads to the town of Korsze (Korschen) .

Web links

Commons : Sątopy (Bisztynek)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1135
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Santoppen
  3. a b Rolf Jehke, Santoppen district
  4. 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. 110
  5. Santoppen at GenWiki
  6. Wieś Sątopy w liczbach
  7. a b c Sątopy - Santoppen at ostpreussen.net
  8. Parafia Sątopy. Świętego Jodoka in the Archdiocese of Warmia
  9. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490