Prosna (Korsze)

Prosna
	Prosna
	Prosna
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Kętrzyn
Gmina :	Korsze
Geographic location :	54 ° 14 ' N , 21 ° 5' E Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '11 " N , 21 ° 4' 52" E
Residents :	277 (2006)
Postal code :	11-430
Telephone code :	(+48) 89
License plate :	NKE
Economy and Transport
Street :	Sępopol - Suliki ↔ Sątoczno - Krelikiejmy - Skandawa
	Błuskajmy Małe - Błuskajmy Wielkie → Prosna
	Kałwągi - Wetyn → Prosna
Next international airport :	Danzig
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Prosna ( German Prassen ) is a village in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the Gmina Korsze ( town and country municipality Korschen ) in the powiat Kętrzyński ( Rastenburg district ).

Geographical location

The village is located in northern Poland in historic East Prussia on the Guber . Twelve kilometers north of Prosna is the state border with the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad , and 26 kilometers southeast of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ).

history

Local history

Ruins of Prassen Castle

In 1376 the village was localized according to Kulmer law . The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Winrich von Kniprode had a hand-held celebration made for this , which gave the place an area of five hectares. In 1484, 1490 or 1520 the place became the seat of the Counts of Eulenburg (or of Ileburg ) through the marriage of Botho zu Eulenburg to the daughter Albrechts Vogt von Ammerthal and remained that way until 1945. In 1547 they built a manor house. Between 1610 and 1620 a new manor house was built, which was expanded in 1667. In 1785 the settlement had nine residential buildings.

The burden of the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century forced the zu Eulenburgs to lease their 3,000 hectares of land and use the income from it to repay debt. In 1860 the manor house was fundamentally rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. Ten years later, for the first time, moved back to Eulenburg in Prassen. In 1875 the tower of the manor house was built.

On April 30, 1874, Prassen became a district village, giving its name to a new district . It existed until 1945 and was part of the county Rastenburg in the administrative district of Kaliningrad in the Prussian province of East Prussia . On November 5, 1890, the Prassen manor was enlarged when the neighboring municipality of Leunenburg ( Sątoczno in Polish ) was incorporated. Also on September 30, 1928 Prassen - now converted into a rural community - received "growth": Döhrings ( Polish Suliki ), Klein Bloßkeim ( Błuskajmy Małe ) and Oberteich ( Stawnica ) were incorporated. On April 1, 1938, the rural community of Wangnick ( Wągniki in Polish ) with the villages of Marlutten ( Marłuty ) and Mockelheim (no longer existent) finally came into being.

In 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the Red Army marched into the area. As a result of the war, the village became part of Poland and Prassen was renamed Prosna. Soviet soldiers moved into the manor house and stayed there until 1946. When they left, only a few items from the house were preserved. In the following years the building fell into disrepair and today it is only a ruin.

Place name

The names Prosna and Prassen go back to the Prussian word for millet .

Population development

In 1939, 1,469 people lived in Prosna, compared to 249 in 1970.

Legend

There was a Liliput Hall in the manor house, and there are two legends about its name. The first legend that Goethe included in a ballad speaks of a midget wedding in that hall. The lady of the castle had given permission to a midget to celebrate a wedding there. The son of the house knew nothing about this and entered the wedding hall and thus disrupted the celebration. The next day the dwarf thanked the family with a diamond ring. Due to the disturbance, however, the Lilliputians decided that in future no more than 13 Eulenburgs could live at the same time.

In the German book of legends (1853) by Ludwig Bechstein there is another variant. After this, the king of the bar stucco wanted the daughter of the Eulenburgs to live with his wife and promised the family happiness for ever. The wedding was approved and the daughter was taken to him in the Liliput Hall and then disappeared forever. That the barons became counts was the promised luck.

Prassen District (1874–1945)

When it was founded, the Prassen district consisted of eight locations; in the end, due to structural changes, there were three more:

German name	Polish name	Remarks
Bollendorf	Bykowo	1928 incorporated into Schlömpen
Doehrings	Suliki	1928 incorporated into Prassen
Cold cheeks	Kałwągi
Small bare germ	Błuskajmy Małe	1928 incorporated into Prassen
Leunenburg	Sątoczno	Incorporated into Prassen in 1890
Oberteich	Stawnica	1928 incorporated into Prassen
Prassen	Prosna
Schlömpen	Słępy

On January 1, 1945, only Kaltwangen, Prassen and Schlömpen formed the Prassen district.

church

Until 1945 Prassen was parish in the Protestant Church of Leunenburg ( Polish Sątoczno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Catholic Church Sturmhübel (Polish Grzęda ) in the then diocese of Warmia .

Today Prosna belongs to the Catholic parish Sątoczno in the current Archdiocese of Warmia within the Polish Catholic Church . The Protestant residents orientate themselves towards the parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) with the branch churches Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) and Barciany (Barten) within the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland

traffic

Guber Bridge at Prosna

The road through Prosna leads in the northwest via Suliki (Döhrings) and Prętławki (Prantlack) to Sępopol (Schippenbeil), five kilometers away . In a south-easterly direction it leads via Sątoczno (Leunenburg) to Skandawa (Skandau) . In addition, two side streets end from Błuskajmy Małe (Klein Bloßkeim) and Kałwągi (Kaltwangen) .

There is no connection to rail traffic .

The geographically closest international airport is Kaliningrad Airport , which is located about 80 kilometers northwest on Russian territory and - as outside the European Union - can only be used to a limited extent. The nearest international airport on Polish territory is Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk, about 170 kilometers to the west .

Native of the place

Wilhelm zu Eulenburg (born July 10, 1778 in Prassen; † 1865), Prussian major general
Richard zu Eulenburg (born January 12, 1838 in Prassen; † July 13, 1909 there), Prussian landowner and politician

literature

Tadeusz Swat: Dzieje Wsi . In: Aniela Bałanda and others: Kętrzyn. Z dziejów miasta i okolic . Pojezierze, Olsztyn 1978, pp. 218-219 ( Seria monografii miast Warmii i Mazur ).