Szymankowo (Lichnowy)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Pomerania | ||
| Powiat : | Malbork | ||
| Gmina : | Lichnowy | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 4 ' N , 18 ° 55' E | ||
| Residents : | 773 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 82-221 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 55 | ||
| License plate : | GMB | ||
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| Rail route : | Malbork – Tczew | ||
Szymankowo ( German : Simonsdorf ) is a village in Poland in the Pomeranian Voivodeship , in the powiat Malborski ( Marienburg district ) in the rural community of Lichnowy ( Groß Lichtenau ).
The village is a volunteer fire brigade center.
geography
Szymankowo is located between Marienburg and Dirschau , between the Nogat and Vistula rivers , about 5 km south of Lichnowy , 9 km northwest of Marienburg and 38 km southeast of the capital of the Gdansk region .
history
In 1857 the line from Marienburg via Simonsdorf to Tczew , and in 1886 the line from Simonsdorf via Neuteich to Tiegenhof was put into operation.
In 1920 Simonsdorf moved from the German district of Marienburg to the district of Großes Werder in the Free City of Danzig . As part of the Free City, Simonsdorf was the border node of the German-Polish railroad. With the capture of the Free State by Germany on September 1, 1939 and the subsequent annexation, which was not recognized under international law, Simonsdorf came under German rule until 1945.
In 1939 Simonsdorf consisted of approx. 23 to 25 residential buildings, 2 manor houses and a farm where the mayor, Paul Foth, lived. There were also 2 schools in Simonsdorf - one Polish and one German. The Polish school was founded in April 1934. In the village there was a train station, a post office, a dairy, a grocery store, two small restaurants and a gendarmerie post. On the outskirts of the village stood a windmill that no longer exists today. Around 120 Polish and German families lived in Simonsdorf at that time. Simonsdorf was supported by 150 to 160 seasonal workers between April and October.
Simonsdorf massacre
On September 1, 1939, Polish railroad workers and customs officers stopped the passage of a train in Simonsdorf, which was manned by German pioneers in Polish uniforms and which was followed by an armored train with the aim of taking the Vistula Bridge near Dirschau for the German Wehrmacht . The guards at the bridge were warned by a call from a Polish rail worker from Simonsdorf that they could blow up the bridge in good time. The Germans murdered a number of Polish railway employees during the train journey, 20 in Simonsdorf alone.
Administrative affiliation
- until 1772 Kingdom of Poland
- 1772–1919 Kingdom of Prussia
- 1920–1939 Free City of Danzig
- 1939–1945 Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
- 1975–1998 Elbląg Voivodeship
literature
- Jochen Böhler , Norddeutscher Rundfunk: The attack: Germany's war against Poland . Eichborn, 2009.
- Richard Hargreaves: Blitzkrieg Unleashed: The German Invasion of Poland, 1939 . Stackpole Books, 2010.
Web links
- Szymankowo on the Lichnowy Commune website
- Simonsdorf in the West Prussian place directory
- territorial.de
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 28, 2017
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Marienburg district in West Prussia (Polish Malbork). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Kartzewski, Erwin (ed.): Please forgive me that I'm still alive . ( erwin-kartzewski.blogspot.de [accessed on January 16, 2013]).