Prosity
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Bartoszyce | ||
| Gmina : | Bisztynek | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 2 ' N , 20 ° 29' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 89 | ||
| License plate : | NBA | ||
Prosity (German: Prossitten ) is a place in the rural community of Bisztynek ( Bischofstein ) in Powiat Bartoszycki ( Bartensteiner Kreis ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The village is located in historic East Prussia , about 15 kilometers southeast of Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński ) and 35 kilometers northeast of Allenstein ( Olsztyn ).
history
Prossitten was first mentioned in a document in 1354. On June 9, 1502, Prince-Bishop Lucas Watzelrode prescribed his auxiliary bishop Johann Wilde (1438–1532) the usufruct of the village of Prossiten for life. In the 16th century, the place fell desolate due to the effects of the war and was re-established in 1529 under Bishop Mauritius Ferber .
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population voted in the referendums in East and West Prussia on July 11, 1920 on whether they would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus Germany) or join Poland. In Prossitten, 480 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, while Poland did not vote.
In 1945 Prossitten belonged to the Prussian district of Rößel in Warmia in the administrative district of Königsberg in the province of East Prussia of the German Empire .
Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . After the end of the war, the place became part of the People's Republic of Poland together with the whole of West Prussia and the southern half of East Prussia under the name Prosity in the summer of 1945 according to the Potsdam Agreement . After that, the immigration of Polish migrants began. As far as the local villagers had not fled, they were in the aftermath of Prossiten sold .
Population development until 1945
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1816 | 296 | |
| 1858 | 577 | exclusively Catholics |
| 1864 | 587 | on December 3rd |
| 1885 | 595 | |
| 1905 | 591 | |
| 1910 | 556 | |
| 1933 | 615 | |
| 1939 | 587 |
Buildings
The parish church of St. Mary was built in 1585 and consecrated in 1608. In the years 1840–1844 a new neo-Gothic building was built on the foundations of the previous church and consecrated in 1845 by Bishop Josef Geritz.
Sons and daughters
- Josef Engling (1898–1918), member of the Schoenstatt Movement
- Arthur Kather (1883–1957), Catholic clergyman, most recently capitular vicar
- Linus Kather (1893–1983), German lawyer and politician
Web links
- GenWiki: Prossitten (with historical map)
- Prossitten at Ostpreussen.net
- Description of the place with pictures (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Eichhorn : The auxiliary bishops of Warmia . In: Magazine for history and antiquity of Warmia . Volume 3, Braunsberg 1866, pages 139-164, especially pages 141 ff.
- ↑ 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. 109
- ↑ Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 4: P – S , Halle 1823, p. 85, item 3061.
- ↑ Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg, based on official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861, p. 218, point 117.
- ^ Prussian Ministry of Finance: The results of the property and building tax assessment in the administrative district of Königsberg : Berlin 1966, 19. Kreis Roessel, p. 10, item 77.
- ↑ a b c http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Prossitten
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. roessel.html # ew33rsslprossitten. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).