Westpreussen2

Westpreußen

˜ A List of West Prussian people of Westpreußen

˜ Lists of names from Church Register Index’s from Kreis Culm, West Prussia.

˜ List of names from the Church Register Index for Rehden, Land Kreis Graudenz (at one time Kulm), West Prussia.

West Prussia is a large piece of real estate. At various times in its history it included Pommern, Landkreis Bromberg and the Territory and free city of Danzig. This page does include the Territory and City of Danzig but it does not include Pommern or Landkreis Bromberg. West Prussia includes the City of Thorn where the Teutonic Knights signed a treaty with Poland and Lithuania in 1466. Interestingly, this place is across the Weichsel River from where many Pittelkau lived in Landkreis Bromberg, and a few kilometers southeast from where many Pettelkau, Peddelkau, Piddelkau and Pittelkau lived in West Prussia.

The West Prussian Land Register of 1772-1773 (R. Drefs)

http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/land/wprussia/

Maps of West Prussia

¨ Thorn & Thorner

¨ Rehden and Graudenz

¨ Kulm

Also see Hans Pettelkau’s list of our folk at:

"Forschung Pettelkau".http://www.pettelkau.de/

· Ort Rehden, Landkreis Graudenz, Westpreussen (Rehden belongs to the Culm-Graudenz Evangelical Diocese) [Is East of Graudenz and Culm.]

· Gross Lunau, Landkreis Culm, Westpreussen (Gross Lunau belongs to the Culm-Graudenz Evangelical Diocese) [About 25 kilometers ENE of Culm]

· Ort Niederausmaaß, (Aus-Maas) Kr. Kulm, Westpreussen, Preussen. At one time this area, together with Landkreis Graundenz, belonged to the Province of Marienwerder. Later in its history, Province Marienwerder became Landkreis Marienwerder.

· Ort Kokotzko, Landkreis Culm, Westpreussen (Kokotzko belongs to the Culm-Graudenz Evangelical Diocese) Meyers Orts- & Verkehrs - Lexicon des Deutschen Reich - 1912, "Kokotzko, village of 518 residents on the right bank of the Weichsel river, Kreis Culm, Westpreussen, it had its own: Civil registration office, Protestant church and dairy". It was a little west of south from Culm, NE of Bromberg. It was in the SW corner of Kreis Culm, just across the Posen border. (Polish name is Kokotzko)

· Ort Friedrichsbruch, a little south and east of Kokotzko. Perhaps five kilometers.

· Stadt Culmsee, Kr. Thorn, Westpreussen, Preussen (NE of Bromberg Stadt and SSE of Culm Stadt)

Document Research at the Archive of Berlin by Kurt Pittelkau, Berlin