Surminy

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Surminy
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Surminy (Poland)
Surminy
Surminy
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Gołdap
Gmina : Banie Mazurskie
Geographic location : 54 ° 14 '  N , 22 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '55 "  N , 22 ° 5' 36"  E
Residents : 210 (2006)
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 650 : Stara Różanka - Węgorzewo - Banie MazurskieBoćwinka - Gołdap
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Surminy ( German  Surminnen ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural community of Banie Mazurskie (Benkheim) in the powiat Gołdapski ( Goldap district ).

Geographical location

Surminy is located on the south bank of the Goldap ( Polish Gołdapa ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The former district town of Angerburg ( Polish : Węgorzewo ) is 24 kilometers to the west, the current district capital of Gołdap (Goldap) 16 kilometers to the northeast.

history

The former village Serminnen with its eastern Vorwerk was founded 1540th Before 1785 it was called Siurminnen . On May 6, 1874 Surminnen was the official residence and was thus its name to a newly built office district , which until 1945 the district Angerburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 there were 469 inhabitants registered in Surminnen. Their number changed to 443 by 1925, was again 469 in 1933 and was 455 in 1939.

In 1945 Surminnen came to Poland as a result of the war with all of southern East Prussia and received the Polish form of the name “Surminy”. Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and a place in the network of the rural community Banie Mazurskie in the powiat Gołdapski, before 1998 part of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship.

Surminnen District (1874–1945)

The district of Surminnen existed between 1874 and 1945 and had five villages at the beginning and three villages at the end:

German name Polish name Remarks
Kulsen Kulsze
Sapallen
1938–1945: Ostau
Sapałówka
Schupowen
1938–1945: Schuppau
Czupowo 1928 incorporated into Kulsen
Surminnen Surminy
Ziemianen Ziemiany 1928 incorporated into Kulsen

On January 1, 1945, Kulsen, Ostau and Surminnen still belonged to the Surminnen district.

church

The Protestant population Surminnens was until 1945 in the parish of the Church in Benkheim ( Polish Banie Mazurskie ) in the church district Angerburg in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches , the Catholic after Angerburg in the Diocese of Warmia eingepfarrt. Today the Catholic church members of Surminys belong to the Banie Mazurskie Church in the Gołdap Dean's Office in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , while the Protestants belong to the Gołdaper branch church of the parish in Suwałki in the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

traffic

In terms of traffic, Surminy is conveniently located on the Polish voivodeship road DW 650 , the former German Reichsstraße 136 , which runs through the north of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and connects the two district towns of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and Gołdap (Goldap) . There is no longer a rail link since 1945, when the Angerburg – Goldap railway line with the nearest Benkheim station was destroyed and not reactivated.

Individual evidence

  1. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Surminnen
  2. ^ A b Rolf Jehke, Surminnen District
  3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Angerburg
  4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Angerburg district (Polish Wegorzewo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476