Arciszewo is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Pruszcz Gdański __NOTOC__ Gmina Pruszcz Gdański is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Pruszcz Gdański, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The ...

, within

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, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of

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and south of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

History

Since 1466, when the rebels of the

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, only partially successful in overthrowing the governing

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, could only partition the western parts ( Culmland,

Pomerelia Pomerelia, also known as Eastern Pomerania, Vistula Pomerania, and also before World War II as Polish Pomerania, is a historical sub-region of Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland. Gdańsk Pomerania is largely c ...

and

Warmia Warmia ( ; Latin: ''Varmia'', ''Warmia''; ; Warmian subdialect, Warmian: ''Warńija''; Old Prussian language, Old Prussian: ''Wārmi'') is both a historical and an ethnographic region in northern Poland, forming part of historical Prussia (reg ...

) of Order Prussia, Arciszewo formed part of the

in Polish-allied

Royal Prussia Royal Prussia (; or , ) or Polish PrussiaAnton Friedrich Büsching, Patrick Murdoch. ''A New System of Geography'', London 1762p. 588/ref> (Polish: ; German: ) became a province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which was annexed follow ...

. In 1772, in the course of the

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Arciszewo became part of the

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. Arciszewo (Artschau) then formed a manorial ward in the newly founded . On partitioning Dirschau District into smaller districts in 1818, Artschau became part of the new in the Danzig Region within

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. In 1871 Artschau, like all of Prussia, became part of

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. In 1887, on partitioning Danzig-Land, Artschau became part of the new Danzig Heights District. In 1910 Artschau counted 103 inhabitants.Cf
„Königreich Preußen - Provinz Westpreußen - Regierungsbezirk Danzig - Landkreis Danziger Höhe“
on
''Gemeindeverzeichnis Deutschland 1900''
retrieved on 3 February 2018. Following the provisions of the

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, the Artschau manorial ward, together with most of the Danzig Heights District, became part of the

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, a

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, in January 1920, more than a year after

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.Cf. Rolf Jehke
„Gemeindeverzeichnis Kreis Danziger Höhe“
on
''Territoriale Veränderungen in Deutschland und deutsch verwalteten Gebieten 1874 - 1945''
retrieved on 3 February 2018. In 1929, when the Senate of Danzig dissolved all manorial wards, assigning them to one or more adjacent municipalities or transforming them into municipalities of their own, Artschau merged with other manorial wards in the new municipality of Straschin-Prangschin.Cf
„Westpreußisches Ortsverzeichnis“
on
''Familienforschung in Westpreußen''
retrieved on 3 February 2018. After the German and Soviet

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, in 1939

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annexed the mandated Danzig area in a unilateral act, not recognised under international law, and merged Artschau in the new Danzig-West Prussia, an occupational authority not recognised under international law. Artschau became part of the new occupational for the period until the end of

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. By the end of the war, in early 1945, the

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conquered and occupied the area. In summer 1945, following the provisions of the

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, the

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occupation forces handed over Artschau, like all of the mandated Danzig territory, to Polish forces. The Polish administration renamed Artschau as ''Arciszewo ''. As far as mandate Danzig nationals of German ethnicity had not fled the Soviet invasion, most of them were expelled in the following years.

References

{{Gmina Pruszcz Gdański Villages in Gdańsk County