Stębark
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Ostróda | ||
| Gmina : | Grunwald | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 30 ' N , 20 ° 8' E | ||
| Residents : | 530 | ||
| Postal code : | 14-108 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NOS | ||
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| Next international airport : | Warsaw Chopin Airport | ||
Stębark [ ˈstɛmbark ] ( German Tannenberg ) is a district of the municipality Grunwald ( Green Field ) in Masuria ( Powiat Ostródzki , Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Poland ).
history
The place, which is located in the former East Prussia not far from the border with the former West Prussia in the eastern foothills of the Kernsdorfer Höhe , became known, together with its neighboring village Grunwald ( Green Field ), through the Battle of Tannenberg on July 15, 1410, in which the Teutonic Order one Suffered defeat against a united army of Poland and Lithuania . In the 19th century it became a Polish national myth. The Grunwald Memorial was inaugurated on the 550th anniversary of the battle.
During the First World War , a second so-called battle near Tannenberg was fought in nearby Hohenstein (today Olsztynek ) . The Russian 2nd Army under General Samsonov was surrounded by the German 8th Army and defeated. The German commander-in-chief Paul von Hindenburg enforced the naming after Tannenberg to outshine the historical defeat.
Based on the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Tannenberg belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Tannenberg, 360 people voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.
Origin of the place name
As early as 1333, the place was first mentioned in a document as the Tannenberge . In 1426 it was already referred to as Sztambark , then Stemberg 1508, Stangenberg 1570, Sztembark 1711, Stangenberg around 1790, Sztymbark 1882 and finally as Sztymbark or Stębark in 1946. The name of the place Stębark is probably derived from the old Germanic word Stange (which like Sztem is pronounced) from, as well as through the change of the word part -berg in Middle Low German -bark (similar to Tymbark ( Eng . Tannenberg), Szymbark , Szembark, Lidzbark etc.). Stębark means Stange Mountain .
coat of arms
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The coat of arms from 1916 shows three fir trees in silver, including the Iron Cross from 1914 in a red field . The three-tower red wall with a black gate above the fir trees indicates the monument.
Stębark's son
- Rudolf von Brandt (1835–1909), lawyer, governor in East Prussia, member of the Prussian mansion
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 105
- ↑ a b Prace Instytutu Języka Polskiego 1995. p. 161