Kandyty ( de , Kanditten) is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Górowo Iławeckie
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Gmina Górowo Iławeckie is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, on the border with Russia. Its seat is the town of Górowo Iławeckie, although the town is not ...
, within
Bartoszyce County,
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the
Kaliningrad Oblast of
Russia.
It lies approximately north-west of
Górowo Iławeckie
Górowo Iławeckie (german: Landsberg in Ostpreußen) or simply Górowo, is a town in northern Poland, located in the Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with 4,068 inhabitants (2016). The town has a land area of and is the smallest ...
, west of
Bartoszyce, and north of the regional capital
Olsztyn.
History
In 1285 the ownership of an area named "Catithen" in the
Old Prussian area of
Natangia was awarded to the
Sudovian
Sudovian (also known as Yotvingian, or Jatvingian) was a Western Baltic language of Northeastern Europe. Sudovian was closely related to Old Prussian. It was formerly spoken southwest of the Nemunas river in what is now Lithuania, east of Gali ...
nobleman Skomand by the
Teutonic Order. The name probably derives back to the
Old Prussian term for a small ford. About 1350, throughout the
German Settlement in the East, a village "Canditten", sized 80 "Hufen", a square measure of the
Teutonic Knights, and a church was founded by the Order. Throughout the Polish-teutonic
Hunger War
The Hunger War or Famine War was a brief conflict between the allied Kingdom of Poland, and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, against the Teutonic Knights in summer 1414 in an attempt to resolve territorial disputes. The war earned its name from destructi ...
of 1414 the village and the Church was destroyed by Polish troops, the Priest and 7 farmers were killed. An estimated damage of 3,500 Mark in the village and 1,000 Mark at the Church was calculated by the Teutonic Knights. The village suffered again throughout the Polish-Teutonic
Thirteen Years' War of 1454/66 and was given as a pawn to the nobleman Paul Pregel in 1491. The Church was completely destroyed in the
horsemen's War of 1521, only 4 farmers lived here in 1540. In 1575 the landlord Truchseß von Waldburg re-established the Church. In 1664 the von Schwerin family of
Wildenhoff became the landlords, which lasted until the abolition of serfdom in Prussia.
[Horst Schulz, Der Kreis Preußisch Eylau, Verden 1983 (German)]
In 1820 2 manors, 21 farms, 4 cottages and 6 craftsmen existed.
Until 1945 the area was part of the
German Province of
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
, Kanditten was occupied by the
Soviet Red Army on 18 February 1945 throughout the
East Prussian Offensive. After
World War II the area became part of Poland under the terms of the
Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement (german: Potsdamer Abkommen) was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II: the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union on 1 August 1945. A product of the Potsdam Conference, it concerned th ...
.
Population
*1820: 256
*1846: 540
*1871: 765
*1895: 772
*1933: 803
*1939: 930
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*2008: 980
References
{{Gmina Górowo Iławeckie
Kandyty