Wyszkowo, Poland
Wyszkowo ( High German prince) is a village in the northwest of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is part of the rural community Lelkowo ( Lichtenfeld ) in the powiat Braniewski ( circle brown mountain).
Geographical location
Wyszkowo located ten kilometers south of the state border between the Polish Warmian -Masurian and the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg area ). Six kilometers further south run the province road 507, and nine kilometers to the east the province road 510 ( former German Empire Road 126). Rail connection is via Wysoka Braniewska ( Hogen village) on the railway line from Braniewo ( Brown Mountain ) to Gutkowo ( Göttkendorf ) to proceed to Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ).
Place name
The German place name is derived from the High Prince " Hogeforste " = Hochwald, suggesting that the new settlement was established on forest land.
History
On May 3, 1332 Lokator received by Commander of Balga (now Russian: Wesjoloje ), Henry of Muren, the Tangible for the settlement of farmers. He also became the first mayor of the then chief prince called the place. Suffering and destruction experienced chief ruler of the cities war (1454-1466) and in horsemen War (1519-1521), so that in 1533 only four farm sites were occupied in the village.
With effect from 11 June 1874 District based in the High Prince was formed in the rural communities Bönkenwalde (now Polish: Bieńkowo ) Friedrichshof, United Hasselberg ( Krzekoty ), High Prince ( Wyszkowo ), Small Hasselberg ( Krzekotki ), Small Lüdtkenfürst ( Lutkówko ) and Rauschenbach ( Rusewo ) and the estate districts God's grace, Great Hasselberg ( Krzekoty ) and Great Lüdtkenfürst ( Lutkowo ) were incorporated. Because of incorporations and structural changes consisted in 1945 of the official district chief prince nor from the five rural communities Bönkenwalde, United Hasselberg, High Prince, Lüdtkenfürst and Rauschenbach.
In 1910, the High Prince counted 487 inhabitants. Their number dropped to 1933 to 409 in 1939 and amounted to 404
Before 1945, the High Prince belonged to the district Heiligenbeil (now Russian: Mamonowo ) in the district of Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia. 1945 High Polish prince was under the name Wyszkowo. 1975 to 1998 the village was part of Elbląg Voivodeship. Today the village is part of the gmina Lelkowo in powiat Braniewski in the Warmia - Mazury and has 384 inhabitants ( 2010).
In the High Prince was a school before 1945.
Church
A parish church in the High Prince was built in 1575. The current temple is dedicated to the Holy Family.
High Prince was the seat of a parish office, which was occupied Lutheran since the Reformation. By 1945 the Protestant parish chief prince of the Church Circle Heiligenbeil belonged (now Russian: Mamonowo ) in the province of East Prussia Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. The parish last counted nearly 1480 members of the congregation who lived in 12 places, three of whom were school places:
Since 1945, live in Wyszkowo majority Catholic church members. The church is now a branch church in the parish Zagaje ( Hassel Pusch ) and is part of the Dean's Office Pieniężno (flour sack) in the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.
Personalities
- Hans -Ulrich Nichau ( born February 18, 1925 in the High Prince ), German writer, translator and author of radio plays († 1971)
- Louis Peters (1809-1861), pastor of the High Prince
- Adolf Rogge, 1861-1868 pastor in chief prince, German theologian and local historian