Skop (Ryn)

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Skop (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Ryn
Geographic location : 53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '43 "  N , 21 ° 39' 32"  E
Residents :
Postal code : 11-520
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 59 : Giżycko ↔ Ryn - Mrągowo - Rozogi
Szymonka / ext. 643 - Stara Rudówka - Monetki → Skop
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Skop ( German  Skoppen , 1938 to 1945 Reichenstein ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the urban and rural community of Ryn (Rhine) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Skop is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers southwest of the district town Giżycko (Lötzen) and eight kilometers northeast of the city of Ryn (Rhine) .

history

From the origin of the village called Skroppen before 1818 and Skoppen before 1938 it is reported that Georg von Diebes is said to have prescribed a total of 44 Hufen in 1553 for the construction of the interest village. In 1818 Skoppen was mentioned as a farming village with 25 fire places and 158 souls.

When the Orlen district ( Orło in Polish ) was established in 1874 , Skoppen was included. The county - renamed "District Arlen" 1938 - belonged until 1945 to the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein in the Prussian province of East Prussia ).

With its district Monetki (Sophienthal) , Skoppen came to the Orlen registry office in 1874 . When this was dissolved in 1913, Skoppen was incorporated into the registry office of the city of Rhine (Ryn).

277 residents were registered in Skoppen in 1910. Their number rose to 370 by 1933 and totaled 356 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Skoppen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Skoppen, 220 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938, Skoppen was renamed "Reichenstein (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons of the defense against foreign-sounding place names.

As a result of the war, the village was transferred to Poland with all of southern East Prussia in 1945 . Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and a village in the municipality of Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945, Skoppen resp. Reichenstein parish in the Evangelical Parish Church of the Rhine 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 Skop belongs to the Evangelical Parish in Ryn in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland as well as to the Catholic Parish Church Immaculate Conception of Mary in Ryn in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Skop is located on the Polish national road DK 59 (formerly German Reichsstraße 140 ), which is important for traffic and connects the three districts of Giżycko (Lötzen) , Mrągowo (Sensburg) and Szczytno (Ortelsburg) . In addition, a side road from Szymonka (Schimonken , 1938 to 1945 Schmidtsdorf) and the voivodship road DW 643 leads via Stara Rudówka (Alt Rudowken , 1938 to 1945 Hammerbruch) and Monetki (Sophienthal) to Skop. There is no train connection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1156
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Reichenstein (Ostpr.)
  3. ↑ a b c Scoppen
  4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Orlen / Arlen district
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 492–492