Sypitki

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Sypitki
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Sypitki (Poland)
Sypitki
Sypitki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Ełk
Gmina : Kalinowo
Geographic location : 53 ° 47 '  N , 22 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '10 "  N , 22 ° 34' 24"  E
Height : 125 m npm
Residents : 250 (2005)
Postal code : 19-314
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NEL
Economy and Transport
Street : Sędki / DK 16 - MakosiejeKucze - Stacze
PisanicaWiśniowo Ełckie
Rail route : Ełk – Turowo small railway line (currently no regular traffic)
Next international airport : Danzig



Sypitki ( German  Sypittken , 1938-1945 Vierbrücken ) is a village in the north-eastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), belonging to the municipality of Kalinowo (Kallinowen , 1938 to 1945 Dreimühlen ).

Center of Sypitki
Tobacco leaves drying in Sypitki

Geographical location

Sypitki is located eleven kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the village of Kalinowo on a country road in the south of the rural municipality and is 14 kilometers southeast of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) . The Lega - also called "Malkien" here - flows through the place and feeds the Great Sellmentsee ( Jezioro Selmęt Wielki in Polish ).

history

Sypittken was founded in 1483 when a Jakob Schipittka is mentioned in the area of ​​the local office, who, along with Peter Rochatt and Stank Ahareyk, was given the power of disposal over the 22.5 Hufen large hand-held festivals . Since a place name has not yet been documented, it can be assumed that Jakob Schipittka gave the place its name Sypittken. A large part of the village later became the property of the Buc (z) ylowski family.

In 1522 Sypittken got the right to build a private mill .

In 1656 the region around Kallinowen was largely destroyed by the invasion of the Tatars, allied with Poland .

On May 27, 1874 came into being as a Prussian municipal reform a new one District (Prussia) District Sawadden to the next Sypittken rural communities Brodowen , Buczylowen, Cziessen , Czynczen , Jebramken, small Lasken , Krzywen , Kutzen , Ossarken and Statzen and the Gutsbezirk Sawadden belonged.

February 1896 the rural community Ossarken was incorporated into Sypittken.

On June 30, 1906, the district of Sawadden was renamed "District Sypittken" after the manor district Sawadden had previously been reclassified to the neighboring district of Wischniewen .

In 1908 the administrative district Sypittken comprised the rural communities of Czießen, Czynczen, Klein Lasken, Kutzen, Rundfließ (until renaming in 1907: Krzywen), Statzen and Sypittken and the manor district of Lyck, domain office (partially).

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Sypittken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Sypittken, 160 people voted to stay with East Prussia, Poland did not vote.

In 1931, as part of territorial changes, the district of Sypittken included the rural communities of Czynczen, Klein Lasken, Kutzen, Rundfließ, Seeheim (until renaming in 1908: Czießen), Statzen and Sypittken.

In 1933 there were 301 inhabitants in Sypittken.

Sypittken was on June 3, 1938 at the wake of the club German Bund East fueled massive Eindeutschung Masurian place names Baltic or Slavic origin in "Four bridges" renamed, the identical renaming of the consular district only followed half a year later.

In 1939 Vierbrücken (Sypittken) only had 264 inhabitants.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the four bridges belonging to the German Reich ( East Prussia ), Lyck district , fell to Poland . The resident German population, as far as they had not fled, was largely expelled after 1945 and, in addition to the traditional Masurian minority, replaced by new citizens from other parts of Poland, most of whom came from the Augustów region . The place was renamed "Sypitki".

From 1975 to 1998 Sypitki belonged to what was then the Suwałki Voivodeship , then joined the newly formed Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999 . Today Sypitki is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a village in the Gmina Kalinowo association .

church

Before 1945 Sypittken resp. Four bridges in the Protestant Church Pissanitzen (1926 to 1945 Ebenfelde , Polish Pisanica ) and in the Roman Catholic Church in Prawdzisken (1934 to 1945 Reiffenrode , Polish Prawdziska ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today there is a separate Catholic church in Sypitki, which is a branch church of the parish in Wiśniowo Ełckie (Wischniewen , 1938 to 1945 Kölmersdorf) in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant inhabitants adhere to the parish in the district town of Elk , a filial community of the parish in Pisz ( German  Johannibsurg ) in the Diocese Mazury of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland .

traffic

Streets

Sypitki is located at the intersection of the secondary road coming from Landesstraße 16 near Sędki (Sentken) and leading to Stacze (Statzen) with the country road from Pisanica (Pissanitzen , 1926 to 1945 Ebenfelde) to Wiśniowo Ełckie (Wischniewen , 1938 to 1945 Kölmersdorf) .

Relocating at Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa in Sypitki

rails

In December 1915, Sypittken was connected with its own train station to the Lycker Kleinbahnen , which operated between the district town of Lyck ( Ełk in Polish ) and the border town of Thurowen (1938 to 1945 Auersberg , Turowo in Polish ), but is now only operated sporadically: with one historical museum train of Ełcka Kolej Wąskotorowa between Ełk and Sypitki.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1225
  2. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Vierbrücken
  3. a b Rolf Jehke, Sawadden / Sypittken / Vierbrücken district
  4. Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : "Self-determination for East Germany - A Documentation on the 50th Anniversary of the East and West Prussian Referendum on July 11, 1920"; Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 87
  5. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. Gmina Kalinowo
  7. a b Sypittken