Uwagi o dziejach Pruszcza Gdańskiego w średniowieczu

• Authors: Wiesław Długokęcki

Title variants

EN

Comments on the history of Pruszcz Gdański in the Middle Ages

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

In the 13th century Pruszcz was probably one of the places near Gdańsk which belonged to immigrants from Prussia. In the 14th century its area was extended to almost 90 lans (probably by combining a few smaller villages) and it adopted Culmic law (the privilege was renewed in 1367). The place became the local centre of craft and trade (the baker’s, the tailor’s, the stall, the butchery, taverns, the mill), which provided services to adjacent villages. Due to its location near Gdańsk and at the Radunia Canal, in Pruszcz during the Thirteen Years’ War there took place frequent fights between the Teutonic army and the armies of Poland and the Prussian Confederation, which built there two bastilles: one near the lock regulating the [ ow of water, and the other around the parish church. After 1454 Pruszcz became the property of Gdańsk. In 1472 the council gave the village and the right to its revenues to a few burghers for the period of 20 years in return for the debt of 1000 small grzywna (marks). The outline of the history of Pruszcz in the Middle Ages presented here is a polemic with the findings given by Beata Możejko and Błażej Śliwiński. They were based on the arbitrary attitude towards the sources (accepting the word Pruszcz as Puck in the document of 1328), and on their free translations and interpretations in reference to the foundation privilege, rent books, Gdańsk chronicles and others.

Keywords

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Pruszcz; Gdańsk; the foundation privilege; the Radunia Canal; bastilles

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
• Journal: Zapiski Historyczne
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 117-137

Contributors

author

Wiesław Długokęcki

• Instytut Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański