Szczepanki (Wydminy)

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Szczepanki
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Szczepanki (Poland)
Szczepanki
Szczepanki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Wydminy
Geographic location : 53 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '6 "  N , 21 ° 57' 8"  E
Residents : 100 (2006)
Postal code : 11-510
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Wydminy / ext. 655 ↔ Lipińskie - Miłki / DK 63
Rail route : Railway Głomno – Białystok
Railway station: Wydminy
Next international airport : Danzig



Szczepanki ( German  Sczepanken , 1938 to 1945 Tiefen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the rural municipality of Wydminy (Widminnen) in the Giżycki powiat ( Lötzen district ).

Geographical location

Szczepanki is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers southeast of the district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) .

history

The village, founded in 1495 and called Szepanken after 1818 , then Sczepanken until 1938 , was incorporated into the Milken District ( Polish: Miłki ) in 1874. It belonged to 1945 the county Lötzen in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905 to 1945: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In the period from 1874 and 1945 Sczepanken was also assigned to the Milken registry office .

In 1910 there were 191 inhabitants registered in Sczepanken. Their number increased to 219 by 1933 and in 1939 - the place was called "Tiefen" since 1938 - still 214.

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

As a result of the war, the village came to Poland in 1945, along with all of southern East Prussia , and since then has been called "Szczepanki" in Polish. Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish sołectwo ) and thus a district of the rural community Wydminy (Widminnen) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ), before 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

church

Until 1945 Sczepanken resp. Parish in the Protestant Church of Milken in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic parish church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today Szczepanki belongs to the Protestant parish Wydminy , a branch parish of the parish church Giżycko in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland and to the Catholic parish churches in Miłki or Wydminy in the diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Szczepanki is located on a side road that connects the voivodship road DW 655 near Wydminy (Widminnen) with the national road DK 63 (formerly German Reichsstraße 131 ) near Miłki (Milken) . The nearest railway station is Wydminy, on the Głomno – Białystok railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1253
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Tiefen
  3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Milken District
  4. ↑ a b c Sczepanken (district of Lötzen)
  5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Lötzen district
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Lötzen (Polish Gizycko). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ 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. 81
  8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492