Szymonka

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Szymonka
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Szymonka (Poland)
Szymonka
Szymonka
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
Powiat : Giżycko
Gmina : Ryn
Geographic location : 53 ° 54 '  N , 21 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '38 "  N , 21 ° 39' 38"  E
Residents : 174 (2009)
Postal code : 11-520
Telephone code : (+48) 87
License plate : NGI
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 643 : ( Giżycko -) Wilkasy ↔ Olszewo / DK 16
Skop / DK 59 - Monetki → Szymonka
Rail route : no rail connection
Next international airport : Danzig



Szymonka ( German  Schimonken , 1938 to 1945 Schmidtsdorf ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the urban and rural community Ryn (Rhine) in the powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ).

View of the Jezioro Szymoneckie ( Gr.Hensel -See) near Szymonka (Schimonken / Schmidtsdorf)
Memorial stone for the 500th anniversary of Szymonka (1503-2003)

Geographical location

Szymonka is located on the southwest bank of the Great Hensel Lake ( Jezioro Szymoneckie in Polish ), which is connected to the Great Shimon Lake (1938 to 1945: Schmidtsdorfer See, Polish: Jezioro Szymon) by the 2360 meter long Kanał Szymoński . Located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , it is 24 kilometers from Szymonka to the former district town of Sensburg (Mrągowo), 18 kilometers to today's district metropolis Giżycko (Lötzen) , and the town of Ryn (Rhine) is ten kilometers away.

history

The Kirchdorf Schimonken was founded in 1503: on April 24th of this year it received the hand-fest from the Commander of the Rhine named Rudolf von Tippelskirch .

Between 1874 and 1945, Schimonken was an official village and thus gave its name to an administrative district that - renamed in 1938 to "Amtsgebiet Schmidtsdorf" - belonged to the Sensburg district in the Gumbinnen district (1905 to 1945: Allenstein district ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 576 inhabitants were registered in Shimonken. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Shimons belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Shimonken, 460 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.

On September 30, 1928, the community expanded to include the neighboring village of Matheussek (1938 to 1945: Mathiessen, in Polish: Mateuszek), which was incorporated. The population was already 751 in 1933 and remained almost the same at 752 in 1939.

As a result of the war, the place with all of southern East Prussia, which was renamed “Schmidtsdorf” on June 3 (officially confirmed on July 16) 1939 for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names, became part of Poland . Today it bears the Polish name form "Szymonka" and is the seat of a Schulzenamt (Polish sołectwo) and thus a district of the urban and rural community of Ryn (Rhine) . The village “changed” from the Sensburg District to the Giżycki Powiat ( Lötzen District ), was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship before 1998 , but has been part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since then .

District of Schimonken / Schmidtsdorf (1874–1945)

The district of Schimonken was founded on April 8, 1874 and was renamed on November 15, 1938 in "District of Schmidtsdorf". Originally it consisted of ten, in the end five villages:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name		 Remarks
Alt Rudowken Stara Rudówka 1939 incorporated into Hammerbruch
Bark Borki 1928 incorporated into Klein Jagodnen
Cucumber Gorkło
Klein Rudowken 1928 incorporated into Alt Rudowken
Matheussek Mathiessen Mateuszek 1928 incorporated into Shimonken
Mniodunks Immenhagen Mioduńskie
New Rudowken Neuhammerbruch Nowa Rudówka 1939 incorporated into Hammebruch
Rudowken, Forst incorporated after Hammerbruch
Salpia Prażmowo
Shimons Schmidtsdorf Szymonka

On January 1st, 1945 only Gurkel, Hammerbruch, Immenhagen, Salpia and Schmidtsdorf formed the district.

church

The once Protestant, now Catholic church in Szymonka

Church building

The first church was built in Shimonken in 1566 as a Protestant church. In the years 1874 to 1877, the second successor building was built as a brick building in neo-Gothic style with a high, pointed tower . The old equipment is no longer preserved today, the high tower is now replaced by a small bell dome on the roof on the west side. After 1945 the building was expropriated in favor of the Roman Catholic Church. It was equipped with a contemporary interior that was appropriate to the liturgical purpose and is now used as a Catholic parish church, known as the “Assumption Church” ( Polish: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ).

Church / parish

Evangelical

A parish was built in Shimonken as early as 1560 , and when the church was built in 1566, a parish of its own was set up. Until 1945, Schimonken resp. Schmidtsdorf to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had 2,140 parishioners.

Due to the flight and displacement of the local population , the church life of the Protestant parish collapsed after 1945. Today only a few Protestant church members live in Szymonka. They now belong to the Evangelical Parish in Ryn in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

Until 1945 the Roman Catholic residents of Shimonkas were resp. Schmidtsdorfs parish into the St. Adalbert Church in Sensburg in the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945, the Polish new settlers in Szymonka took over the previously evangelical church as their parish church, which is now part of the Deanery Św. Szczepana Męczennika Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) belongs to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Personality of the place

  • Ulrich Woronowicz (born January 26, 1928 in Schimonken; † December 7, 2011), German Protestant theologian, author and songwriter
  • Georg Lewandowski (born August 19, 1944 in Schmidtsdorf), German politician

traffic

Szymonka is conveniently located on voivodship road 643 , which connects the two districts of Powiat Giżycki ( Lötzen district ) and Powiat Mrągowski ( Sensburg district ). An overland connection also leads to Skop (Skoppen , 1938 to 1945 Reichenstein) on the national road DK 59 , the former German Reichsstraße 140 . There is no train connection.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1261
  2. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schmidtsdorf
  3. ↑ a b Szymonka - Schimonken / Schmidtsdorf
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, district of Schimonken / Schmidtsdorf
  5. ^ Uli Schubert, community register, district Sensburg
  6. ↑ 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. 115
  7. ↑ a b Shimons
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Sensburg (Polish Mragowo). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches . Göttingen 1968, p. 139
  10. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 3: Documents . Göttingen 1968, p. 501
  11. ^ Website of the Diocese of Mazury
  12. ↑ website of Parafia w Szymonce