Siniec (Srokowo)

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Siniec (Poland)
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Siniec
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Kętrzyn
Gmina : Srokovo
Geographic location : 54 ° 9 '  N , 21 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '34 "  N , 21 ° 30' 8"  E
Residents : 228 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 11,420
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 650 : ( Kętrzyn -) Stara Różanka - Nowa Różanka ↔ Sińczyk-Leśniczówka - Srokowo - Węgorzewo - Gołdap
Dolny Siniec → Siniec
Kąty → Siniec
Siniec-Cegielnia → Siniec
Różanka-Leśniczówka → Siniec
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Siniec 2009

Siniec ([ ˈɕiɲet͡s ], German  Groß Blaustein (Gut), 1928 to 1945 Blaustein ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg ) in the rural community Srokowo ( Drengfurth ). The place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Sołectwo ) to which the localities Dolny Siniec (Groß Blaustein (village)), Kąty (Langeneck) , Różanka-Leśniczówka , Rypławki (Riplauken) , Sińczyk-Leśniczówka (Klein Blaustein) and Siniec-Cegielnia (brickworks) Groß Blaustein) belong.

Geographical location

Siniec is located in northeast Poland, about 20 kilometers south of the state border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast , eleven kilometers northeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German  Rastenburg ). Not far from the village is the Siniec lake.

history

Place name

The first mentioned name of the place was Plawenstein . The name goes back to the procurator Rastenburgs (Kętrzyn) Heinrich von Plauen . Later the name changed to bluestone and was traced back to a bluish shimmering granite stone which is not far from the village in the forest. The Polish name is also derived from this name interpretation. Here siny means blue / bluish.

Local history

Today's Siniec was created at the end of the 14th century with an associated area of ​​50 hooves . The large estate and a brickworks were important for Groß Blaustein .

On April 30, 1874 Good Great Blaustein office Village and thus its name to an administrative district that existed until 1945 and the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On September 30, 1928, the rural community Groß Blaustein (village) (Polish: Dolny Siniec) and the manor districts Groß Blaustein (Siniec), Langeneck (Kąty) and Klein Blaustein (Sińczyk-Leśniczówka) from the manor district Wehlack (Skierki) joined the new one Rural community of Blaustein together.

In 1945, at the end of World War II , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, Blaustein became part of the People's Republic of Poland . In 1945 the place was renamed Kamienna ( Steinig ) and received its current name Siniec in 1946. In 1970 there was an eight-grade elementary school, a library point and a cinema with 50 seats. From 1973 the village was part of the municipality of Srokowo.

Population numbers

The following is a graphic representation of the population development.

Blaustein District (1874–1945)

Initially there were three villages in the Blaustein district. After the dissolution of the neighboring district of Alt Rosenthal (Polish: Stara Różanka ), the district village was incorporated into Blaustein. Structural changes finally left the number of locations back at three:

German name Polish name Remarks
Groß Blaustein (village) Dolny Siniec 1928 incorporated into Blaustein
Great Bluestone (Good) Siniec 1928 absorbed in bluestone
Nowa Różanka New Rosenthal
from 1905:
Langeneck 		Kąty 1928 incorporated into Blaustein
from 1929:
Alt Rosenthal 		Stara Różanka

On January 1, 1945, the Blaustein district was made up of the following towns: Alt Rosenthal, Blaustein and Neu Rosenthal.

church

Evangelical

Church history

Gross Blaustein was a church itself as early as the pre-Reformation period. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Reformation teaching found its way here, with the services between 1662 and 1739 also being held in Polish. The maintenance of the church then exceeded the financial means of the congregation, and so the church was demolished in 1765. The bells were brought to Schwarzstein ( Polish: Czerniki ) in the Rastenburg district. Until 1945 Groß Blaustein resp. Bluestone after Schwarzstein in the church province of East Prussia parish of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Siniec belongs to the Johanneskirche Kętrzyn with the branch church Srokowo in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Pastor

The clergy were in office at the church in Groß Blaustein:

  • Friedrich Gerholtz, 1666
  • Friedrich Arwinski, 1673-1729
  • Albert Czwalina, 1730-1739

as well as from Schwarzstein:

  • Daniel Groß, 1739-1744
  • Jacob Kaminski, 1745-1765.

Catholic

Until 1945 (Groß) Blaustein belonged to the Catholic St. Katharina in Rastenburg in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . Today Siniec is incorporated into the parish of Srokowo in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .

traffic

Street

The village is on the DW 650 voivodship road from Stara Różanka (Alt Rosenthal) in the west and Srokowo (Drengfurth) in the north. Both places are about eight kilometers from Siniec. In Stara Różanka, Voivodship Road 650 joins Voivodship Road DW 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ). Several side roads and country roads lead to Siniec in a star shape from the neighboring towns.

rail

Siniec does not have its own train station. The nearest train station is in Kętrzyn , eleven kilometers south , where there are direct connections to Korsze (Korschen) or Ełk (Lyck) and Białystok .

air

The closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 100 kilometers northwest on Russian territory. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 200 kilometers to the west .

Personalities

Connected to the place

  • Johann von Klingsporn (1605–1685), colonel from Kurbrandenburg and regimental commander, heir to Groß- and Klein-Blaustein
  • Julius Rudolph von Klingsporn († after 1794), Prussian colonel, heir to Groß- and Klein bluestone
  • Hans Birth (1887–1961), teacher and politician (SPD), was a teacher in Groß Blaustein from 1919 to 1923

References

Web links

literature

  • Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 223-224 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).

Footnotes

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1152
  3. ↑ Website of Gmina Srokowo, Sołectwa ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 9, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srokowo.iaw.pl
  4. ↑ a b turysta.net.pl, Gmina Srokowo , accessed on May 9, 2009
  5. ↑ probably Heinrich the Younger from Plauen or Heinrich the Elder from Plauen
  6. ↑ Swat 1978, p. 223
  7. ↑ It is important to distinguish between the Groß Blaustein estate and the village of Groß Blaustein (now in Polish: Dolny Siniec); for the estate, see: Dietrich Lange, Geographisches Ortregister Ostpreußen (2005): Groß Blaustein
  8. ↑ today in Polish: Siniec-Cegielnia
  9. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Blaustein District
  10. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Blaustein
  11. ↑ a b Groß Blaustein at GenWiki
  12. ↑ a b Swat 1978, p. 224
  13. ^ For 1817, 1939, 1970: Swat 1978, pp. 223-224
    For 1939, 1933 Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rastenburg district (Polish: Ketrzyn). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). For 2011:     Wieś Siniec w liczbach
  14. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 1, Göttingen 1968, p. 207
  15. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474
  16. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, pp. 45 and 137