Wysoka

Wysoka
	Wysoka
	Wysoka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Greater Poland
Powiat :	Piła
Area :	4.82 km²
Geographic location :	53 ° 10 ′ N , 17 ° 6 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ N , 17 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	110 m npm
Residents :	2628 ; (June 30, 2019)
Postal code :	89-320
Telephone code :	(+48) 67
License plate :	PP
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban and rural municipality
Surface:	123.04 km²
Residents:	6572 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	3019093
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor :	Marek Madej
Address:	Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich 21 ; 89-320 Wysoka
Website :	gminawysoka.pl
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Wysoka [ vɨˈsɔka ] ( German Wissek , 1942–1945 Weisseck ) is a town with 2,700 inhabitants in the powiat Pilski ( Schneidemühl district ) of the Polish Voivodeship of Greater Poland .

Geographical location

The city is located about 25 kilometers east of the city of Schneidemühl ( Piła ) and 60 kilometers west of the city of Bromberg ( Bydgoszcz ).

history

Wissek east of the city of Schneidemühl and west of the city of Bromberg on a map of the province of Posen from 1905 (areas marked in yellow indicate areas with a predominantly Polish- speaking population at the time ).

The village was first mentioned in 1260. In 1505, Wissek received Magdeburg town charter, which was granted in 1722 by landlady Apolinara von Tuczynska, born in 1722 after a large town fire, to which the documents fell victim. Smogolicka, was renewed.

During the first partition of Poland in 1772, Wissek came to Prussia . Then the city came into the possession of the Minister von Görne; after the confiscation of its property it belonged to the domain office, but was then given away again. In the 19th century, the town was owned by a Mr. Wiese.

From 1807 to 1815 the city was part of the Duchy of Warsaw . Wissek was returned to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna . From 1818 to the end of the First World War it belonged to the county Wirsitz in the administrative district of Bromberg of Posen .

By the middle of the 19th century, Wissek had three schools, one for each of the three denominations.

After the First World War , Wissek came under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty to the Second Polish Republic , where the city was part of the Polish powiat Wyrzysk until 1939. During the Second World War it was part of the new administrative district of Wirsitz .

Towards the end of the Second World War, the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 . Shortly thereafter, the city was handed over to the People's Republic of Poland . Insofar as the German residents had not fled, they were subsequently expelled by the local Polish administrative authorities .

Population numbers

1783: 266, mostly Poles, including 87 Protestant Germans
1788: 346
1816: 208, including 121 Catholics, 82 Evangelicals and five Jews
1837: 755
1843: 250
1850: 1,055, including 504 Catholics, 423 Evangelicals and 128 Jews
1858: 1.174
1861: 1.151
1885: 1,071, including 410 Protestants, 624 Catholics and 37 Jews

Town twinning

Wysoka has had a partnership with the German community of Jesberg in the Schwalm-Eder district since 2002 .

traffic

A narrow-gauge railway operated between Wysoka and Białośliwie .

sons and daughters of the town

Johannes Jahn (1892–1976), art historian
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig (1899–1946), SS group leader

Gmina

The urban and rural community of Wysoka covers an area of 123 km² with 6,900 inhabitants. This includes the following 12 locations:

Surname	German name (1815-1920)	German name (1939-1945)
Bądecz	Bondecz 1873-1920 Collin	Kollin
Czajcze	- Heinrichsfelde - Gut Czaycze	Heinrichsfelde
Czajcze-Wybudowanie	Heinrichsfelde mining	( to Heinrichsfelde )
Eleanorka	Eleonorenhof	Eleonorenhof
Gmurowo	Orlandshof	Orlandshof
Jeziorki Kosztowskie	Schönsee	Schönsee
Kijaszkowo	Wolf Hagen	Wolf Hagen
Kostrzynek	Artificial rabbit	Küstrinchen
Młotkowo	Kaisersdorf	Kaisersdorf
Mościska	Moschütz	Moschütz
Mościska-Kolonia	Moschütz mining	( to Moschütz )
Nowa Rudna	New Ruhden	New Ruhden
Rudna	German Ruhden	Calm
Sędziniec	Richtershof	Richtershof
Starlings	Starlings 1917–1920 Starlings	Starlings
Tłukomy	Tlukom 1873-1920 Groß Elsingen	Great Elsingen
Wysoczka	Karlshof	Karlshof
Wysoka	Wissek	1939–1942 Wissek 1942–1945 Weisseck
Wysoka Mała	Little Wissek	1939–1942 Klein Wissek 1942–1945 Kleinweißeck
Wysoka Wielka	Wissek mining	( to Wissek )

literature

Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2, Marienwerder 1789, part I, p. 98, no.2.)
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, pp. 467-468.

Web links

Official website of the municipality (Polish)
Information about the municipality (German, Polish, English)
William Remus: Wissek (Wysoka), Kreis Wirsitz, West Prussia (2008) (English)

Footnotes

↑ ^a ^b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Wuttke (1864), pp. 467–468.
↑ Goldbeck (1789), Part I, p. 98, No. 2.)
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_wirsitz.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .

[HW-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Wuttke (1864), pp. 467–468.

[JFG-3] Goldbeck (1789), Part I, p. 98, No. 2.)

[4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_wirsitz.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).