Snopki

Snopki
	Snopki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Pisz
Geographic location :	53 ° 38 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '14 "  N , 21 ° 46' 7"  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
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

View of the Snopki military cemetery

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1166
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wartendorf
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Snopki / Wartendorf in family research Sczuka
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, administrative district Snopken / Wartendorf
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
7. ^ ^{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). 
8. ↑ Sołtysi w Gminie Pisz
9. ↑ Snopki in Polska w liczbach
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491
11. ↑ Soldatenfriedhof Snopki (Snopken), cemetery information