Barczewo ( Polish: Barczewo , German: Wartenburg in Ostpreussen ) is a city in Poland , part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , Olsztyn County . It has the status of urban-rural commune. It covers an area of 4.58 km². The population is 7472 people (for 2018 ). [one]
| City | |||
| Barczewo | |||
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| Barczewo | |||
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| A country |  Poland | ||
| Voivodship | Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship | ||
| County | Olsztyn County | ||
| Burgomaster | Lech Nitkovsky | ||
| History and Geography | |||
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| City with | 1364 | ||
| Square | 4.58 km² | ||
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| Timezone | and | ||
| Population | |||
| Population | 7,472 people ( 2018 ) | ||
| Density | 1631 people / km² | ||
| Digital identifiers | |||
| Telephone code | +48 89 | ||
| Postcode | 11-010 | ||
| Car code | Nol | ||
| Official TERYT Code | 6283614014 | ||
| barczewo.pl | |||
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History
The status of the city was received on July 4, 1364 .
January 31, 1945 the city was taken by the Red Army , then transferred to the Polish administration. The German population was deported to Germany. Given the German name of the city, the new authorities renamed it August 15, 1946 to Novoveysk, but on December 4 of the same year they renamed it Barczewo in honor of Valenta Barczewski ( Polish: Walenty Barczewski , 1856-1928), a Polish folklorist, historian and public figure who lived in Warmia .
In a local prison on October 12, 1986, a Nazi criminal, a former Gauleiter and chief president of East Prussia, Erich Koch , who was serving a life sentence there, died. In the same prison in the 1980s , Polish dissidents were detained, including Vladislav Frasynyuk and Adam Michnik .
Attractions
The medieval part of the city has a regular street network with characteristic buildings. In the city preserved:
- Bishop's castle
- Church of St. St. Andrew the First-Called (XIV century)
- Church of St. Anne and Stefan
- Neo-Gothic Evangelical Augsburg Church
- Prison Church of St. Dysmas
- Synagogue (XIX century)
- South gate
- Hospital St. Anthony
- Neo-Gothic Town Hall (19th century)
- Tombstone of Cardinal Andrzej Batory, brother of King Stephen Batory
- Water tower
- Cemetery gates on the street. Home Army
- Remains of city walls (XIV century)
- Museum of the local native of the Polish composer and conductor Felix Novoveysky
- Jewish cemetery
Two kilometers from the city near the Pisa river is the Cross Mountain, which, according to legend, is the sacred place of the Prussians .
Gallery
Andreaskirche
Gefängnis mit kirche
Evangelische kirche
Synagoge
Geburtshaus von Feliks Nowowiejski, Museum
Rathaus
St.-Anna-Kirche aus der Vogelperspektive
Tombstone of Andrzej and Balthazar Batoriev in the church of St. Andrew the First-Called, 1598
Prison in Barczewo
Stadtansicht