Pisz

Pisz is a town inside the Warmian Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, with a population of 19,466 in 2016. It is the seat of Pisz County. Pisz is located at the junction of Lake Ros and the Pisa River. The site on line of cutting edge Pisz became in the starting inhabited through way of the indigenous ethnic organization of Old Prussians. In 1345 the Teutonic Order started out constructing a castle nearby on the southernmost aspect of the Johannisburger Heide or Piska Forest, in the Masurian Lake District. The citadel became named Johannesburg, after St. John the Baptist.

The settlement close by held a market as early as 1367, but it modified into not until 1645 that it acquired its metropolis constitution. The metropolis's first mayor was Fryderyk Adam Czerniewski. The authentic German name of the metropolis grows to be Johannesburg; on the equal time because the Polish speaking citizens noted it as Jansbork. Its early increase owed lots to the residents' ability in beekeeping, and it changed into located on change routes leading to Gdansk and to the Vistula and Narew Rivers. It has emerge as a part of Ducal Prussia in 1525 and Brandenburg Prussia in 1618.