Nowy Targ (Stary Targ)

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The village of Nowy Targ is the southernmost part of the rural community of Stary Targ in the powiat Sztum in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship . It is located 10 km east -south- east of the district town of Sztum and 19 km south-south-east of the Marienburg in Malbork .

history

Until the handover to Poland after the end of the Second World War , the village was called Neumark .

In the 13th Jahrhunderton conquered Teutonic Order the landscape Pomesania . In 1336, Grand Master Dietrich von Altenburg founded today's Nowy Targ as one of 22 villages under the name Neuwermarkt . The first village church was built in 1340 and was already consecrated to Saint Roch at that time . From the Second Peace of Thorner in 1466 to the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the village belonged to the Marienburg Voivodeship of the Polish Royal Prussia , then to the Prussian Province of West Prussia and from 1920 to the Second World War to the Province of East Prussia .

In the People's Republic of Poland , Stary Targ was a Państwowe gospodarstwo rolne (state property).

Population:

Year:  1885  1933  1939  2015
Residents: 617 774 820 490
Rochus Church (Kościół Św.Rocha)

Buildings

The exact construction time of the village church is not known. A walled church for 1642 is mentioned in a document, but stylistically it is estimated to be a hundred years older. Although the masonry of the Gothic building largely of Feldstein is, that's pediment of the eastern gable built of brick, with blind arches and battlements transitioning pilasters in the style of brick Gothic . Such a combination of materials is not uncommon in the area.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 53 ″  N , 19 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  E