Skomack Mały

Skomack Mały
	Skomack Mały
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Giżycko
Gmina :	Wydminy
Geographic location :	53 ° 53 '  N , 22 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '1 "  N , 22 ° 0' 24"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Talki ↔ Odoje
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Skomack Mały [ ˈskɔmat͡sk ˈmawɨ ] ( German  Klein Skomatzko , 1938 to 1945 Skomand ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Skomack Mały is located east of the Klein Skomatzker See (1938 to 1945 Skomand Lake, Polish Jezioro Skomack Mały ) in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) is 22 kilometers to the north-west.

history

Skomatzko , called Klein Skomatzko after 1785 , was founded in 1534 and before 1945 consisted of a few small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 the place was incorporated into the district of Groß Konopken ( Polish: Konopki Wielkie ), which - renamed in 1938 to "district of Hanffen" - belonged to the district of Lötzen in the district of Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: district of Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . During the same period, Klein Skomatzko was also assigned to the Groß Konopken registry office .

In 1910 there were 50 residents registered in Klein Skomatzko. In 1933 there were 56, and in 1939 - the place was now called "Skomand" since 1938 - 48.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Klein Skomatzko belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Klein Skomatzko, 40 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not.

As a result of the war, the small village and southern East Prussia became part of Poland in 1945 and since then has borne the Polish form of name "Skomack Mały". It now belongs to the Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) Okrągłe (Okrongeln , 1938 to 1945 Schwansee) and is a village in the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship associated.

church

Until 1945 Klein Skomatzko resp. Skomand parish in the Protestant Church of Milken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Skomack Mały belongs to the evangelical parish Giżycko with the branch parish in Wydminy in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish church of Wydminy in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Skomack Mały is located on an insignificant side street that connects the village of Talki (Talken) with Okrągłe (Okrongeln , 1938 to 1945 Swan Lake ) and the town of Odoje (Odoyen , 1938 to 1945 Nickelsberg) , which is already in Gmina Orzysz (Arys) . Odojen was the next train station until 2009/10 and was on the - now closed - Czerwonka – Ełk (Rothfließ – Lyck) railway

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Skomand
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Konopken / Hanffen
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Little Skomatzko
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
5. ^ 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). 
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. 80
7. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 492