Siemionki (Wydminy)

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Siemionki (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 57 '  N , 22 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '4 "  N , 22 ° 0' 44"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Wydminy / ext. 655 - Rydze ↔ Pamry / ext. 656
Rail route : Railway Głomno – Białystok
Railway station: Wydminy
Next international airport : Danzig



Siemionki ( German  Schemionken , 1928 to 1945 Bergwalde ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Siemionki is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The little before 1785 Schemioncken before 1818 Czymionken and until 1928 Schemionken called village was founded in 1476 as on January 3 of that year Bernard of Balzhofen a Tangible prescribes a departmental traffic over ten feet. Between 1874 and 1945, the rural municipality belonged to the administrative district Widminnen in county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Schemionken had 201 inhabitants.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Schemionken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Schemionken, 140 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On August 3, 1928, Schemionken was renamed "Bergwalde". The number of inhabitants was 184 in 1933 and 168 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the place was assigned to the entire southern East Prussia of Poland in 1945 and received the Polish form of name "Siemionki". Today the village is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ), which also includes the neighboring town of Rydze (Nienstedten) . As such, it is part of the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it has belonged to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Schemionken / Bergwalde was parish in the Evangelical Church of Widminnen 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 Siemionki is part of the newly formed Protestant parish Wydminy, a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland is also the Catholic church Wydminy in the Diocese of Ełk the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

school

A school was founded in Schemionken in 1819. In 1945 50 school children were taught one-class here.

traffic

Siemionki is located on a side road that connects the voivodship road DW 655 near Wydminy (Widminnen) with the voivodeship road DW 656 near Pamry (Pammern) . There is a railway connection to the Głomno – Białystok railway via the railway station in Wydminy, which is three kilometers away.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1149
  2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Bergwalde
  3. ↑ a b c Schemionken
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Widminnen District
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ 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. 81
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493