Wiewiórki 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 pa ...
, within
Bartoszyce County,
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the
Kaliningrad Oblast of
Russia.
It lies approximately east 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
Eichhorn has been founded by German settlers throughout the
Ostsiedlung
(, literally "East-settling") is the term for the Early Medieval and High Medieval migration-period when ethnic Germans moved into the territories in the eastern part of Francia, East Francia, and the Holy Roman Empire (that Germans had al ...
in the
Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and was first mentioned in 1414, when the settlement was damaged by Polish troops in 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 ...
. In 1419 the local Inn was mentioned as desolate, in 1437 the existing 46 "Hufen", a square measure of the
Teutonic Knights, were cultivated, while the Inn was still desolate. Eichhorn has been property of the
Teutonic Order and the
Dukes of Prussia
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order, a Roman C ...
until about 1600, when it was bought by the von Lehndorff family and changed its landlords until the abolition of serfdom in
Prussia. In 1833 23 farmers, 6 cottagers and 6 craftsmen were living in the village.
[Horst Schulz, Der Kreis Preußisch Eylau, Verden 1983 (German)]
Population
*1820: 247
*1846: 352
*1871: 468
*1895: 416
*1930: 386
*1939: 337
References
Villages in Bartoszyce County
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