Snopki
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | |
Powiat : | Pisz | |
Gmina : | Pisz | |
Geographic location : | 53 ° 38 ' N , 21 ° 46' E | |
Residents : | 1000 (2011) | |
Postal code : | 12-200 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | |
License plate : | NPI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | DK 58 : Olsztynek - Szczytno - Ruciane-Nida ↔ Pisz - Biała Piska - Szczuczyn | |
Jabłoń - Wąglik - Wąglik-Kolonia → Snopki | ||
Rail route : | Lötzen – Johannisburg , closed in 1945 | |
Next international airport : | Danzig |
Snopki [ ˈsnɔpki ] ( German Snopken , 1938 to 1945 Wartendorf ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Pisz ( city and rural community of Johannisburg ) in the Powiat Piski (district of Johannisburg ).
Geographical location
Snopki is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , three kilometers west of the district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) .
history
Local history
The after 1785 Schnopken and until 1938 Snopken called village forester was in 1515 as freehold by Magdeburg Law established. A (new?) Foundation took place in 1723 as Schatulldorf .
On April 8, 1874 Snopken office Village was and thus its name to an administrative district , which - in 1938 renamed "District Wait village" - existed until 1945 and the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. The forester's house Snopken was assigned to the manor district Oberförsterei Breitenheide .
On December 1, 1910 633 inhabitants were reported in Snopken, in 1933 there were already 710. On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 was Snopken for political-ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names in "Waiting village" renamed . The number of inhabitants was 694 in 1939.
As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945 with all of southern East Prussia and was given the Polish form of the name "Snopki". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and as such a place in the network of the city and rural community Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 Snopki had 1,000 inhabitants.
District of Snopken / Wartendorf (1874–1945)
The Snopken district, established on April 8, 1874, was renamed "Wartendorf district" on November 15, 1928. It originally consisted of 13 rural communities or manor districts :
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Remarks |
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Bear corner | Niedźwiedzi Róg | before 1908 reclassified to the Weissuhnen district | |
Rottenbruch | Imionek | 1928 incorporated into Maldaneyen | |
Fishing shack | |||
Guszianka , forest | |||
Jeglinnen | Wagenau | Jeglin | |
Johannisburg, forest | 1929 incorporated into the Johannisburger Heide estate , part of Johannisburg, Forst | ||
Karwik | Karwik | ||
Konzewen | Warnold | Końcewo | before 1908 reclassified to the Weissuhnen district |
Maldaneyen | Maldaneien | Maldanine | |
Snop | Waiting village | Snopki | |
Warnold lake | 1903/1907 formation of the estate district Domain-Amt Schnittken from the estate district Warnold-See; was uninhabited in 1895 | ||
Weissuhnen until 1912 "Groß Weissuhnen" |
Wejsuny | before 1908 reclassified to the Weissuhnen district | |
Wonglik | Balzershausen | Wąglik |
On January 1, 1945, due to various structural changes, only six places belonged to the district of Wartendorf: Balzershausen, Johannisburger Heide (share of Johannisburg, Forst) Karwik, Maldaneien, Wagenau and Wartendorf.
church
Until 1945 Snopken resp. Wartendorf parish in the Evangelical Church of Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Snopki still belongs to the district town of Pisz, now a parish in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and in the Diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
school
Snopken became a school location in 1737. The lessons took place in several classes.
Military cemetery
In Snopki there is still a military cemetery to commemorate those who fell from the First World War , including 21 Germans and 43 unknown soldiers. The cemetery is west of the village. On some gravestones there are the names of German and Russian soldiers who have fallen.
traffic
Snopki is located on the Polish national road 58 , which is important in terms of traffic and runs through the southern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and leads to the Podlaskie Voivodeship . In addition, a regional road leads into the village from the south.
Until 1945 Snopken resp. Wartendorf a train station on the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line , which was shut down as a result of the war and whose facilities have been almost completely dismantled.
Sons and daughters
- Florian Loewenau (1912–1979), German religious, missionary in Brazil and prelate of the Territorial Prelature Óbidos
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1166
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wartendorf
- ↑ a b c Snopki / Wartendorf in family research Sczuka
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, administrative district Snopken / Wartendorf
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources. Issue 1: Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Office, Berlin 1907, pp. 116/117.
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
- ↑ Snopki in Polska w liczbach
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
- ↑ Soldatenfriedhof Snopki (Snopken), cemetery information