{"id":13817,"date":"2020-05-19T14:03:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jzi.org.pl\/?page_id=13817"},"modified":"2020-05-19T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:22:39","slug":"wojenna-pamiatka-w-promiskach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jzi.org.pl\/en\/galerie\/wojenna-pamiatka-w-promiskach\/","title":{"rendered":"War souvenir in Promiski"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each village in the parish that we index has its own interesting history. Today, not genealogically, but militarily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Near the town of Promiski, which territorially belongs to the August\u00f3w commune, but \"spiritually\" to the Sztabin parish (until 1895 it belonged to the Krasnyb\u00f3r parish), there is a complex of three combat bunkers built in 1939. On March 23, 1939, Marshal Edward \u015amig\u0142y-Rydz established the \"Narew\" Independent Operational Group to defend the north-eastern section of the front, which was based on the Lithuanian border and the line of the August\u00f3w Canal, Biebrza and Narew. The front was divided into sections, one of them was the section \"August\u00f3w\". It was planned to build 57 concrete and wooden-earth bunkers there. Brought from the Latvian border in April 1939, the KOP infantry battalion \"S\u0142ob\u00f3dka\" under the command of Lt. Col. Jan Lachowicz was to build fortifications from August\u00f3w up to the D\u0119bowo Lock. Work on the construction of the shelters began on May 21, 1939. Until September 1 thre were buit only few: 1 concrete bunker in August\u00f3w, 5 wooden and earth bunkers in Bia\u0142obrzegi, 2 medium-sized concrete bunkers in Gliniski (one of them had no armored dome installed) and three light concrete bunkers in Promiski. Almost all the bunkers were connected by shooting ditches, the so-called \"tranches\". A dam was also built on the Netta River and the meadows from Promiski to D\u0119bowo were flooded. Two northern bunkers No. 1 and 2 were intended for one HMG for side fire, No. 3 was intended for two HMGs with the so-called oblique fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 1, the bunkers in Promiski were manned with a platoon of KOP rifles. Actually, they did not play a major role, there were no major fights in this area, and the platoon continued to build shooting ditches and barbed wire entanglements. The platoon of rifles, as well as the entire infantry battalion of the KOP \"S\u0142ob\u00f3dka\", left the section \"August\u00f3w\" on September 13, was loaded onto a railway transport and set off towards the Romanian Suburb, i.e. to the area of \u200b\u200bEastern Lesser Poland. On September 23, the territories were occupied by the Russians, and the fortifications were incorporated into the Grodno Fortified Region, i.e. part of the Molotov Line. On June 22, 1941, the August\u00f3w fortifications were occupied by the Germans and they held them until January 1945. The shelters in Promiski have been preserved in good condition to this day, maybe except for shelter No. 2, in which sappers blew up misfires after the war. Today, the guards are surrounded by a huge, several-hundred-year-old oak with a circumference of 6.5 m.<\/span><\/p>\n