Uzdowo

Uzdowo
Uzdowo
	Village
	Uzdowo
	Coordinates: 53°20′N20°6′E / 53.333°N 20.100°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Warmian-Masurian
County	Działdowo
Gmina	Gmina Działdowo
Population	770

Last updated April 08, 2019

Uzdowo [uzˈdɔvɔ] (German : Usdau)^[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Działdowo, within Działdowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.^[2] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) north-west of Działdowo and 57 km (35 mi) south-west of the regional capital Olsztyn. It was formerly part of the German province of East Prussia.

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

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Gmina Działdowo is a rural gmina in Działdowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Działdowo, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.

The village has a population of 770.

History

As a part of Prussia, Usdau entered the German Empire in 1871.

Prussia was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organised and effective army. Prussia, with its capital in Königsberg and from 1701 in Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany.

The German Empire, also known as Imperial Germany, was the German nation state that existed from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918.

With the outbreak of the First World War and the August 1914 invasion of East Prussia by the Russian Empire, Usdau was occupied by units of the Imperial Russian Army. The town was recovered by the German 1st Division on the late morning of August 27 as the surviving occupiers withdrew. The town had been badly damaged by artillery fire and contained a large number of dead or injured Russian soldiers.^[3]

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The 1st Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Königsberg in March 1816 as a Troop Brigade (Truppen-Brigade). It became the 1st Division on September 5, 1818. From the corps' formation in 1820, the division was subordinated in peacetime to I Army Corps. The 1st Division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.

Following the German defeat in the Second World War, Usdau and the surrounding area were ceded to Poland.

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References

↑ "Former Territory of Germany" (in German). 2017-11-08.
↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
↑ Showalter, D.E. Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden: Archon, 1991. pp 249-254.

Coordinates: 53°20′N20°6′E / 53.333°N 20.100°E / 53.333; 20.100

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[Former_Territory_of_Germany-1] "Former Territory of Germany" (in German). 2017-11-08.

[TERYT-2] "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

[3] Showalter, D.E. Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden: Archon, 1991. pp 249-254.

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