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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Warmian-Masurian | ||
| County | Kętrzyn | ||
| Gmina | Reszel | ||
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| - Total | 3. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Voivodeship The voivodeship or province (województwo has been a high-level Administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (also known as Warmia-Masuria Province or by its Polish name województwo warmińsko-mazurskie or simply Warmińsko-Mazurskie A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Kętrzyn County (powiat kętrzyński is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland The gmina or Municipality (frequently translated commune) plural gminy, is the principal unit (lowest level of territorial division in Poland Gmina Reszel is an urban-rural Gmina (administrative district in Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 81 km² (1. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 5 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 5,098 | ||
| - Density | 1,338. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 1/km² (3,465. 6/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 11-440 | ||
| Website: http://www.reszel.pl/ | |||
Reszel [ˈrɛʂɛl] (listen ; before 1946: German: Rößel; Prussian: Resel or Resl) is a city in Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Prussian is an extinct Baltic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the area that later became East Prussia (now north-eastern Poland Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (also known as Warmia-Masuria Province or by its Polish name województwo warmińsko-mazurskie or simply Warmińsko-Mazurskie The population is about 5,700.
Reszel was originally a settlement built by the Bartian tribe of Old Prussians and conquered by the Teutonic Knights in 1241. "Barta" redirects here For the Romanian-French Trotskyist activist see David Korner. "Prussians" redirects here "Prussians" may also refer to citizens of the former German state of Prussia. The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. The native Prussians later recaptured the settlement and held it for five years, but were eventually defeated by the German crusaders. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Crusades undertaken by the Catholic kings of Denmark and Sweden, the German Livonian Reszel received its town privileges in 1337 under Magdeburg law. German town law (Deutsches Stadtrecht or German municipal concerns ( Deutsches Städtewesen) concerns Town privileges used by many cities towns and villages Magdeburg Rights (Magdeburger Recht or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with
As a result of the treaty of Versailles on 11 july 1920 the Warmia and Masuria plebiscite was organized under the control of the League of nations, which resulted 97,90 % of votes to remain in Germany and 2,10 % for Poland. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. The East Prussia(n plebiscite (Abstimmung in Ostpreußen also known as the Allenstein and Marienwerder plebiscite or Warmia Masuria and Powiśle plebiscite (Plebiscyt The League of Nations was an International organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920
The town was transferred from Germany after WWII to Poland following the Potsdam Conference of 1945. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16,
The main tourist attraction is the Gothic Episcopal castle. It was built 1350−1401 on a steep hill side above the right bank of the river Sajna by the Teutonic Order. The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order.
The Gothic St Peter’s Church dating back to the 14th century boasts the painting of the church’s patron dating back to the end of the 18th century. Other worthy of note buildings are the Jesuit monastery complex, St John’s Church and the church and the monastery of the nuns of the Order of St Catherine − all from the 15th and the 16th century. Large fragments of preserved defensive walls and the Classicist town hall in the market square dating back to the 19th century are also worth visiting.
Near Reszel is the local Masurian Catholic shrine of Święta Lipka (German: Heiligelinde), Poland’s magnificent baroque church, a Late Medieval shrine augmented in the 17th century. The Late Middle Ages is a term used by historians to describe European history in the period of the 14th and 15th centuries (AD 1300–1499 Since its beginning it has attracted German pilgrims from Warmia, as well as Polish and Lithuanian pilgrims. Warmia (Warmia Latin: Varmia) or Erm(eland ( is a region between Pomerania and Masuria in northeastern Poland Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the
External links
- Municipal website (Polish)
- Site of Reszel (Polish)
- Statistics of inhabitants, birth, marriage, deaths, from 1569
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