Local time Friday 9:52 AM | County Bartoszyce Elevation 98 m | |
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Weather 11°C, Wind W at 19 km/h, 93% Humidity Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship | ||
Piasty Wielkie [ˈpjastɨ ˈvjɛlkʲɛ] (German: Gross Peisten) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Górowo Iławeckie, within Bartoszyce County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of Górowo Iławeckie, 18 km (11 mi) west of Bartoszyce, and 55 km (34 mi) north of the regional capital Olsztyn.
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Map of Piasty Wielkie, Poland
History
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia).
The name derives back to the Old Prussian term "paustre" for wilderness and was first mentioned in 1414 as a location of a mill and a settlement of 4 free Old Prussians in the region of Natangia with 27 cultivated and 3 desolate "Haken", a square measure of the Teutonic Knights.
In 1858 the manor was bought by Bethel Henry Strousberg, a railway pioneer who fell into bankruptcy in 1875.