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11-760: The settlement was established in 1570. Initially owned by the Loitz family, it was later governed by the Wejher and Sobieski noble families, including King of Poland John III Sobieski . Administratively it was part of the Malbork Voivodeship within the Polish Crown . As a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it was annexed by the German state of Prussia . In 1920 it became part of

22-572: The Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk). On September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland , causing World War II , the Germans murdered the local Polish customs inspector. The town was then annexed by Nazi Germany . During the war, a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp was operated by the Germans in the town. One of the places where the Germans used the forced labour of Stutthof prisoners

33-1500: The Polish army (since 1647). He was the commander of the defence of Zamość in 1648 and later of Malbork in 1656. He was also castellan of Elbląg , Voivod of Pomerania and starost of Wałcz Jakub Wejher (Jacob Weiher) (1609 – 1657), son of Jan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska. Jakub was voivode of Malbork and a founder of town of Weihersfrei, Weyhersfrey, Neustadt ( Wejherowo ) Ludwig von Weyher owner of Gut Langfuhr, received advise in 1771 and in book by Samuel Luther von Geret of Thorn External links [ edit ] Weyher family coat of arms Martin von Weyher, Lutheran Bishop of Cammin Pomeranian Documents Claus and Sophie and Gnadenbrief Martin Weiher various other Weiher family documents References [ edit ] ^ Dynastic Genealogy ^ Dynastic Genealogy ^ Letter from Landeck 1771 to Ludwig von Weyher Friedrich Nicolai ^ Die aus den Graebern dringenden Stimmen Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weyher_family&oldid=1253657446 " Category : Weyher family Hidden category: Articles containing Polish-language text Voivode of Che%C5%82mno The Chełmno Voivodeship ( Polish : Województwo chełmińskie )

44-672: The Chełmno Land as a fief to the Teutonic Order. In the course of the Order's decline after the 1410 Battle of Grunwald , the citizens of Chełmno, Toruń ( Thorn ), Lubawa ( Löbau ), Brodnica , Grudziądz , Nowe Miasto and Radzyń co-formed the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation . In 1454, the organisation led an uprising against the rule of the Teutonic Knights, and asked King Casimir IV of Poland to reincorporate

55-541: The Polish Duchy of Masovia since 1138. It was occupied by pagan Old Prussian tribes in 1216, who struggled against their Christianization instigated by Bishop Christian of Oliva . After several unsuccessful attempts to reconquer Chełmno, Duke Konrad I of Masovia in 1226 called for support by the Teutonic Knights , who indeed approached and started a Prussian campaign, after the duke promised to grant

66-598: The Weyher family Weyher family (alternative spellings: Wejher , Weiher , Waier , Weier , sometimes spelled Weiger Polish : Weyherowie ) was a family of high nobility, most prominent in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Pomerania region and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . The family origins can be traced to Würzburg , Germany . Prominent members [ edit ] Klaus Weiher , of

77-1168: The noble von Weyher family going back in Pomerania to Dietrich von Weiher (aka Theodericus Weyher). Claus was the founder of the Polish line of the Weyher family members of which later on held many officies in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Martin Weiher (1512-1556), son of Klaus Weiher and Sophie von Ramel, the second Lutheran bishop of Cammin Ernest Wejher (1517–1598), voivode of Chełmno , starost of Puck Jan Wejher (1580–1626), son of Ernest Wejher and Anna Mortęska, starost of Puck Melchior Wejher (1574-1643), son of Ernest Wejher and Anna Mortęska, econom of Malbork , castellan of Elbląg and voivode of Chełmno Mikołaj Wejher (?-1647), son of Jan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska, voivode of Malbork (since 1641) and voivode of Chełmno (since 1643), starost of Radzyń Chełmiński and of Kowalewo Pomorskie Ludwik Wejher (?-1656), son of Jan Wejher and Anna Szczawińska, colonel of

88-795: The region to the Kingdom of Poland, to which the King agreed and signed the act of reincorporation, which sparked the Thirteen Years' War between the Knights and the Kingdom of Poland . The towns and nobles of the region then took an oath of allegiance to Poland in Toruń in May 1454. The Chełmno Voivodeship was established the same year. After the Order's defeat, the reintegration of Chełmno Land with Poland

99-783: Was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 1454/1466 until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1793. Its capital was at Chełmno . Together with the Pomeranian and Malbork Voivodeships and the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia it formed the province of Royal Prussia , and with several other voivodeships it formed the Greater Poland Province . The Chełmno Land (later known in German as Kulmerland ) had been part of

110-549: Was confirmed in the Second Peace of Thorn and together with the adjacent Lubawa Land in the east it formed the Chełmno Voivodeship of the Polish Crown , since the 1569 Union of Lublin part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . The voivodeship was annexed by Prussia during the First Partition of Poland in 1772, except for the city of Toruń , which was not incorporated into the province of West Prussia until

121-403: Was the train station, where there is now a memorial plaque . After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the war in 1945, the town again became part of Poland. Nowy Dwór Gdański is twinned with: This Pomeranian Voivodeship location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Weyher family [REDACTED] Coat of Arms of

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