Silginy

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Silginy
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Silginy (Poland)
Silginy
Silginy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Barciany
Geographic location : 54 ° 16 '  N , 21 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '37 "  N , 21 ° 12' 22"  E
Residents : 161 (2011)
Postal code : 11-410
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Kotki / ext. 591 - Skandawa ↔ Krelikiejmy - Prosna
Lwowiec → Silginy
Next international airport : Danzig
Administration (as of 2009)
Village chief : Stanislaw Prancuk



Silginy ( German  Sillginnen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is located in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ) and is part of the Barciany (Barten) municipality .

Geographical location

The village is located in northern Poland, about eight kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast . Love flows through the village (Polish: Liwna ). The former district town of Gerdauen ( Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) is located 13 kilometers northeast, today's district metropolis Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ) 23 kilometers southeast.

The love (Liwna) at Silginy

history

Today's Silginy was created in 1409 with an associated area of ​​9 hooves or in 1422 with an area of ​​14 hooves. In 1422 the village consisted of two manors. In 1785 Sillginnen consisted of 21 houses. In 1836 a manor house was built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . At the turn of the century the estate was owned by Johannes Lehmann-Hohenberg and the secret chancellery Andreas Haller . In 1910 323 people lived in Sillginnen.

On September 30, 1928, the manor district of Sillginnen was incorporated into the rural community of Kröligkeim .

At the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. The residents of the nursing home committed suicide, were shot or frozen to death. As a result of the war, Sillginnen became part of the People's Republic of Poland as Silginy . The manor house was initially used as a summer holiday home for young people and later as living space for state employees. In 1970 there were 277 inhabitants in the village. An eight-grade elementary school and a cinema with 50 seats were available to them. 1973 Silginy was part of the municipality Skandawa seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo ), to which the villages Dobrzykowo ( Dawerwalde ), Garbno (Laggarben), Solkieniki (Solknick) and Zielone belonged.

Even today, Silginy is the seat of a Schulzenamt, but now belongs to the association of the rural community Barciany (Barten) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ), until 1998 the Olsztyn Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Silginy had 161 inhabitants.

District Sillginnen (1874–1932)

On April 9, 1874 Sillginnen office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district in the county Gerdauen in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Only the rural community Kröligkeim (Polish: Krelikiejmy ) and the manor district of Sillginnen were incorporated. The district of Sillginnen was renamed on March 6, 1932 in "District of Kröligkeim". Until the end of 1945, only the rural community Kröligkeim itself belonged to it.

church

Until 1945 was Sillginnen in the parish of the Church Laggarben the united evangelical congregations Laggarben - Dietrichsdorf in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Insterburg ( Russian Tschernjachowsk ) in the then Diocese of Warmia eingepfarrt.

Today, on the Catholic side, Silginy belongs to the Garbno parish in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia , and on the Protestant side to the parish in Barciany , a branch of the St. John's Church in Kętrzyn in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Sillginnen manor

Ruins of the manor house (2009)

In 1836, under Henriette Countess von Viereck (1766-1854), lady-in-waiting to Queen Luise , a manor was built according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . From 1927 to 1930 the manor was owned by the von Kalckstein heirs and then by the Guoten League . These were expropriated and the National Socialist German Workers' Party set up a training center here. In 1937 the Gerdauen district became the owner of the building and had a retirement home built for 60 to 70 people. In 1970 there was a gas explosion that damaged the building considerably and marked the beginning of the decline of the manor house.

In 1993 the Dittchenbühne e. V. Elmshorn took over the manor house, but stopped its restoration work in 1994.

traffic

A side road leads through the village, which leads from Kotki (Krausen) on Voivodship Road 591 (formerly German Reichsstraße 141 ) via Skandawa (Skandau) to Krelikiejmy (Kröligkeim) and on to Prosna (Prassen) .

Silginy does not have its own train station. The nearest train station is in Korsze (Korschen) , eleven kilometers south , where there are direct connections to Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Posen as well as to Ełk (Lyck) and Białystok .

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 80 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 180 kilometers to the west .

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, p. 223 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Web links

Commons : Silginy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1152
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Silginy - Sillginnen at ostpreussen.net
  3. ↑ a b c Swat, 1978, p. 223
  4. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de, community directory Germany 1900 , accessed on April 26, 2009 ( WebCite ( Memento from April 26, 2009 on WebCite ))
  5. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, District Sillginnen / Kröligkeim
  6. ↑ Kętrzyn: z dziejów miasta i okolic, Olsztyn 1978, p. 303
  7. ^ Wieś Silginy w liczbach
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
  9. ↑ Sillginnen at GenWiki