Szkody

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Szkody
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Szkody (Poland)
Szkody
Szkody
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Pisz
Gmina : Biała Piska
Geographic location : 53 ° 35 '  N , 22 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '4 "  N , 22 ° 2' 24"  E
Residents : 309 (2011)
Postal code : 12-230
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NPI
Economy and Transport
Street : Biała Piska - RadysyKumielsk - Grodzisko / DP 1882B: Okurowo - Żebry
Kózki → Szkody
Szkody-Kolonia → Szkody
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Szkody [ ˈʂkɔdɨ ] ( German  Skodden , 1938 to 1945 Schoden (Ostpr.) ) Is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( city ​​and rural community Bialla (1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg )) in the Powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Village street in Szkody

Geographical location

Szkody is located in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, 16 kilometers southeast of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

The small village called Sckodden after 1579, Skoden after 1785 and Skodden until 1938 was founded in 1484 by the Teutonic Knight Order with 38 hooves under Magdeburg law .

From 1874 to 1945 the place was incorporated into the Morgen district.

On December 1, 1910, 321 residents were registered in Skodden. Their number rose to 324 by 1933.

On the basis of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Skodden belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Skodden, 200 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not cast any votes.

For political and ideological reasons of defense foreign-sounding place names Skodden was on June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 in "Schoden (Ostpr.)" Renamed . The population was 301 in 1939.

When in 1945 as a result of the war the entire south of East Prussia was handed over to Poland , Skodden resp. Schoden affected. The village received the Polish form of the name "Szkody". Today it is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwo ) and thus a place in the network of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the Powiat Piski , until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then it belongs to the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship . In 2011 the population of Szkody was 309.

church

Until 1945 Skodden was parish in the Protestant Church of Bialla (1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg , Polish: Biała Piska ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg ( Polish: Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Szkody belongs to the parish Biała Piska in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant population is oriented toward to Biala Piska, whose church is now a filial community of the parish Pisz in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland is.

school

In 1820 Skodden became a school town.

traffic

Szkody is on a side road that runs from Biała Piska via Kumielsk to Grodzisko ( German  Grodzisko , 1932 to 1945 Burgdorf ) and from there as a county road ("Droga powiatowa") to Żebry in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . In addition, two land routes from Kózki (Kosken) and Szkody-Kolonia (Peace Rest) end in Szkody.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1257
  2. ^ "Droga powiatowa" (county road)
  3. Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Schoden (Ostpr.)
  4. a b c Skodden - Schoden in family research Sczuka
  5. Rolf Jehke, Kumilsko District / Morgen
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
  7. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Johannisburg district (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. 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. 77
  9. ^ Sołectwa w Gminy Biała Piska
  10. Wieś Szkody w liczbach
  11. Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491