Wylatowo

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Wylatowo ( German : Wilatowen ) is a village in the urban-and-rural municipality Mogilno in the powiat Mogileński of the Polish Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Wylatowo is located on a hill between two small lakes about eight kilometers south of the town of Mogilno , 25 kilometers northeast of the town of Gniezno (Gnesen) and 60 kilometers south of the town of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) .

history

Village street in Wylatowo

The village emerged from an early detectable village that belonged to the Augustinian monastery at Tremessen ( Trzemeszno ). His name was Welatow in the first half of the 12th century . On April 28, 1145 the monastery became the property of the village through the Polish Duke Mieszko III. approved. After the village had been converted to German law in 1247, the place received town charter in 1368, but remained quite small afterwards: in 1458 it only had to provide two warriors. A Catholic church was built in Wylatowo around 1770. The inhabitants of the place were Poles in the 1780s, who lived mainly from agriculture. They lived in a few dozen houses made of wood with thatched roofs .

With the First Partition of Poland , Wylatowo became part of Prussia , where it remained under the name Wilatowen until 1919. In 1773 the Augustinian monks' ownership of the place ended. The village was in 1818 the county Mogilno , Posen affiliated. In 1871 Wilatowen lost its town charter. In 1919 the place came to the Second Polish Republic through the Wielkopolska Uprising .

In 1939 the region was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. Towards the end of the Second World War , Wilatowen was captured by the Red Army and shortly afterwards returned to Poland.

Population numbers

  • 1780: 223
  • 1783: 295 (Poland)
  • 1788: 389 in 24 houses
  • 1816: 343
  • 1837: 468 in 80 houses
  • 1861: 588
  • 1910: 813

References

literature

  • Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, p. 465 .
  • Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789, p. 93, no.6).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Erich Schmidt : History of Germanness in the country of Posen under Polish rule . Bromberg 1904, p. 88.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wuttke (1864), p. 465 .
  3. ↑ a b c Goldbeck (1789), p. 93, no.6).