Stębark

Stębark [ stɛmbark ] ( German Tannenberg ) is a district of the municipality Grunwald ( green field ) in Masuria ( powiat Ostródzki, Warmian -Masurian, Poland).

The place that is located in the former East Prussia, near the border to the former West Prussia in the eastern foothills of the core Höhe was known, along with its neighbor Grunwald ( green field ) at the battle of Tannenberg of 15 July 1410 in the German Order of a suffered defeat by a united army of Poland and Lithuania. In the 19th century it became a Polish national myth.

During the First World War (now Olsztynek ) held in nearby Hohenstein, a second so-called Battle of Tannenberg. The Russian 2nd Army was encircled by General Samsonov from the German 8th Army and defeated. The German commander Paul von Hindenburg began to flare the historic defeat by even this designation to Tannenberg.

Origin of the place name

Already in 1333, the village was first mentioned in documents as pine mountains. 1426 he has been acclaimed as Sztambark, Stemberg 1508 Stangenberg 1570 Sztembark 1711 Stangenberg 1790, Sztymbark 1882, and referred Stębark or Sztymbark in 1946. The town's name probably derives from the Old Germanic Stębark word bar (as Sztem - spoken as well as by the regular change of the word part -berg in mnd - bark, similar Tymbark; German Tannen -berg, Szymbark, Szembark, Lidzbark etc. ) and means Stanges mountain back. The problems associated with the letters - ę - fastening briefly explained.