Sumki

Sumki
	Sumki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Orzysz
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 21 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '39 "  N , 21 ° 57' 0"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-250
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 63 : ( Russia -) Perły - Węgorzewo - Giżycko - Konopki Wielkie ↔ Orzysz - Pisz - Kolno - Sławatycze (- Belarus )
	Pianki → sumki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Sumki ( German  Sumken ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Orzysz ( urban and rural municipality Arys ) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Sumki is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 26 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Sumbken was established in 1443 as freehold by Magdeburg Law founded and consisted of two medium-sized farms. Incorporated was the small town in the neighboring community Pianken (1938 and 1945 was: Altwolfsdorf , Polish Pianki ) in the county Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 and 1945 was: administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1945 Sumken came in consequence of the war with the entire southern East Prussia to Poland and received the Polish form of the name "Sumki". Today the place is assigned to the Schulzenamt (Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the city ​​and rural municipality Orzysz (Arys) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Sumken was parish in the Protestant Church of Arys in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Sumki belongs to the Catholic parish in Orzysz in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

Sumki is located on the Polish state road 63 ( formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ), which is important for traffic and connects the Polish-Russian with the Polish-Belarusian state border and crosses four voivodships on its more than 400 kilometers long route . A railway connection has not existed since the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway with the nearest Pianken railway station was shut down in 1945 as a result of the war and partially dismantled.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1223
2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Sumken
3. ↑ Gmina Orzysz
4. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 491