Sokoły (Biała Piska)

Sokoły
	Sokoły
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 32 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '21 "  N , 22 ° 3' 26"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kowalewo → Sokoły
Rail route :	PKP line 219: Olsztyn – Ełk Railway station: Biała Piska
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sokoły [ sɔˈkɔwɨ ] ( German  Sokollen , 1935–1945 Falkendorf (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , which belongs to the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ) ) heard.

Geographical location

Sokoły is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) . It was only a few hundred meters to the former German-Polish border . It was at this point the Locust River ( Polish Wincenta formed), now called dividing line between the provinces of Warmia-Mazury and Podlasie acts.

history

The place called Sokolowen at the time was founded in 1428 by the Teutonic Order as a service item with 30 hooves under Köllmischer law . In the following years he received forms of name such as Sokoloffsen , Sokollen - with additions such as am Berg , Kirchspiel Kumilsko (1908) and Sokollen K (before 1935).

From 1874 to 1945 Sokollen was incorporated into the Morgen district.

In 1910 the population of Sokollens was 128. It rose to 141 by 1933 and was 148 in 1939.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sokollen belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sokollen, 120 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

On September 1, 1935, Sokollen was renamed "Falkendorf (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons. Ten years later it was handed over to Poland as a result of the war with southern East Prussia . The place was initially given the Polish name "Sokoły Górskie", later - without taking into account the geographic conditions - the name without an additional name.

Today Sokoły is a small town in the network of the urban and rural municipality Biała Piska in the Powiat Piski , until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Religions

With his then predominantly Protestant population Sokollen was until 1945 in the parish of the Church Kumilsko (1938 to 1945: Morning, Polish: Kumielsk) the parish and belonged to the parish of Johannesburg (Pisz) within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . The few Catholic church members were oriented towards Johannisburg in the Diocese of Warmia .

Since 1945 the situation has been reversed: the parish church of the predominantly Catholic population of Sokołys is the former Protestant church in Kumielsk . She now belongs to the deanery Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Catholic Church in Poland . Protestant church members living here belong to the parish of Biała Piska, which - here has a small prayer room named after Karl Heinrich Heldt , the former German pastor and resistance fighter against National Socialism - a branch of the parish in Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church is in Poland .

traffic

Sokoły is located on a side road that leads from Biała Piska (on the Polish national road 58 ) via Kowalewo to the village of Milewo , which is already in the Podlaskie Voivodeship .

The nearest train station is Biała Piska on the line 219 Olsztyn – Ełk (Allenstein – Lyck) of the Polish State Railways (PKP).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005). Falkendorf (East Pr.)
2. ↑ to distinguish between the nearby Sokollen parish Skarzinnen or Sokollen S , which is also part of the Johannisburg district , and Sokollen R like the later Richtenberg , and today's Sokoły Jeziorne
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Kumilsko District / Morgen
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (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. 77
7. ↑ Which roughly corresponds to the earlier form of the name "Sokollen am Berg"
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491