Klasztory na terenie Departamentu Kamery Kaliskiej Prus Południowych w zestawieniach Karla F. Oswalda z lat 1798 i 1805

Abstract

South Prussia (Südpreußen), a province of the Kingdom of Prussia was created from lands captured by the Hohenzollern monarchy under the Second Partition of Poland (1793). The new province has been divided into three departments (Kammerdepartament): Warsaw, Poznań and Kalisz. The secretary of the latter – Karl F. Oswald, on the orders of his superiors, prepared statistical descriptions of the parent department: the years 1798 and 1805. These lists contain a wide range of information about cities, counties, departments (powiaty), and finally, administration and justice. They also include a list of monasteries existing in the department. The information contained in the reports allows you to follow the dissolution activities of the Prussian authorities: in the census from 1805, information about houses that were subject to the dissolution, was included.