Prostki

Prostki ( German Prostken ) is a village and seat of the rural community in the powiat Ełcki in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

Prostki lies on the River Elk ( Lyck ).

History

The founding as Tangible goes back to the year 1482. A settlement is likely, however, have found there before. In Prostken on October 8, 1656 suffered a Brandenburg- radziwillsche force a defeat against a Polish- Tatar forces, which led to Prince Bogusław Radziwill was captured and plundered until the next year into Masurian towns and villages by the Tatars and fire were set. Prostken received in 1871 a railway connection to the East Prussian Southern Railway of Königsberg, which was extended shortly after the Russian Grajevo. By rail connection tenfold within a few years the population of Prostken, which had nearly 2,400 inhabitants in 1933.

Until 1945 the town was Prostken, located on the southern edge of the county elk, the border town between German East Prussia province and the Russian Empire and after World War II Poland. Prostken belonged to the parish Ostrokollen.

South of the border, many small towns were dominated by a majority or large minority of Jews. After the Wehrmacht had invaded there, they handed over this area due to the German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty, the USSR and withdrew across the German border. Before the retreat parts of the Jewish population were deported to Germany. Prostken served as the transit camp for displaced Jews.

Attractions

In 1545 Albrecht of Brandenburg- Prussia was at the village Prostken a brick border pillar build with a Latin poem by Georg Sabinus. At the time of the monument 's formation, there was there the border triangle between Prussia, Lithuania and Masovia, which had recently been annexed by Poland. The limiting column contains the inscription panel, the coat of arms of the Duchy of Prussia, and of large - Lithuania. It is to replicas of the originals, which were until 1945 in Königsberg Castle.

The border demarcation existed since the Treaty of Kalisch in 1343rd The border was, next to the Spanish-Portuguese border, the longest-lasting border demarcation in Europe and lasted until 1945.

Gmina

The rural community Prostki consists of the following villages:

Pictures

A former coaching inn " Karl Kruger "

Footnotes

  • Gmina in the Warmia and Mazury
  • Place of Warmia and Mazury
  • Biebrza
  • Gmina Prostki
Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Haandfæstning Grajewo German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation Krzywe, Ełk County Integrated Authority File
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