Szymki (Biała Piska)

Szymki
	Szymki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Pisz
Gmina :	Biała Piska
Geographic location :	53 ° 35 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '57 "  N , 21 ° 58' 7"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	12-200
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NPI
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kocioł Duży / DK 58 - Rakowo Piskie ↔ Liski
	Kukły → Szymki
Rail route :	no rail connection
Next international airport :	Danzig

Szymki [ ˈʂɨmkʲi ] ( German  Symken , 1938 to 1945 Simken ) is a small town in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Biała Piska ( town and country municipality Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg ) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ).

Geographical location

Szymki is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers south-east of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ).

history

Local history

The little after 1736 Schymken after 1785 Szimcken after 1818 Simbken , until 1912 Noble Symken and until 1938 Symken called village was on 30 June 1495 by the Teutonic Order as Freigut 35 hooves of Magdeburg Law rights established. In the middle of the 19th century the village was divided into the rural community of Symken and the manor district of Symken with the Wilhelminental Vorwerk , both of which later called themselves noble Symken. On April 8, 1874 Symken office Village and thus its name to one was District was and until 1945 - 1938 "District Simken" renamed - the circle Johannesburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen : (from 1905 Region of Olsztyn in) Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

On December 1, 1910, 180 inhabitants were registered in Symken, of which 87 lived in the rural community and 93 in the manor district. On September 30, 1928, the manor district was incorporated into the rural community of Symken and at the same time the Vorwerk Wilhelminental was incorporated into the rural community of Kallischken ( Kaliszki in Polish ) in the Ruhden district ( Ruda in Polish ). The total population was 123 in 1933.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Symken belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Symken, 60 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not receive any votes.

On June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16), the spelling of the place name was changed from Symken to “Simken”. In 1939 the population was 142.

In 1945, as a result of the war, the whole of southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland , which also affected Symken / Simken. The place received the Polish name form "Szymki" and is now the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołectwa ). Thus, the village is part of the urban and rural community Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938 to 1945 Gehlenburg) in the powiat Piski ( Johannisburg district ), until 1998 the Suwałki Voivodeship , and since then the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

Symken / Simken District (1874–1945)

The administrative district of Symken, established in 1874, initially consisted of eleven villages, in 1945 there were eight due to restructuring:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Bogumillen	Brödau	Bogumiły
Grodzisko	Burgdorf	Grodzisko
Gruhsen		Gruzy
Gusken		Guzki
Jeroshen		Jerosze	incorporated into Gruhsen
Pisces		Liski
Poseggen		Pożegi
(Noble) Rakowen , village	Raken (Eastern Pr.)	Rakowo Piskie
(Noble) Rakowen , domain	Raken	Rakovo	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Adlig Rakowen
( Noble ) Symken , village	Simken	Szymki
(Noble) Symken, good			1928 incorporated into the rural community of Symken

On January 1, 1945, the villages of Brödau, Burgdorf, Gruhsen, Gusken, Lisken, Poseggen, Raken (Ostpr.) And Simken formed the Simken district.

church

Until 1945 Symken resp. Simken in the Evangelical Church Kumilsko (1938 to 1945 morning , Polish Kumielsk ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today the Protestant residents of Szymki stick to the parish in Biała Piska , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . On the Catholic side, Szymki belongs to the parish Kumielsk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

traffic

Szymki is located south of the Polish state road 58 and can be reached from here via a side road that branches off at Kocioł Duży and leads via Rakowo Piskie (Adlig Rakowen , 1938 to 1945 Raken ( Eastern Pr.)) To Liski (Lisken) . In addition, a side street coming from the neighboring town of Kukły (Kuckeln) ends in Szymki. There is no rail link.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1261
2. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Simken
3. ↑ Original text of the Symker Handfeste from 1495 in the family research Sczuka
4. ↑ ^{a b} Adlig Symken / Simken at genealogy Sczuka
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of East Prussia. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Book I, 1907, DNB  365941670 , ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 118 f .
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rolf Jehke, District of Symken / Simken
7. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Johannisburg
8. ^ ^{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). 
9. ↑ 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
10. ^ Sołectwa Gminy Biała Piska
11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491