Ziethen (Szczytno), Kreis Schlochau, West Prussia
Ziethen is a manorial village just west of Prechlau
in Kries Schlochau. Around
1300 it was a very important village; the residence of a very important
Castellan. This map depicts that time:
By the time the Remus family arrived, the Ziethen
nobility were no longer as powerful.
Some of the
earliest Remus family records come from this village
which was shown in the Catholic Church books as Cittun.
Elisabeth Remus, daughter of the earliest Michael Remus of Pollnitz, lived with her husband Franz Trehn.
Their children were born here and in Zwadda. Also in this village was miller Ludwig Dahlmann whose son Friedrich and was to marry into the Remus family and was his daughter Florentine. Here is a map
showing this village and the area:
(Click the map to blow it up)
A close look at Ziethen in the right hand corner of the map scanned from Der Kreis Schlochau shows the shape of the manorial estate
including the manor house (gut) and the barns. The manor house is gone but here
are two scans of it from an old postcard and from 1985 (thanks to Paul
Sternberg):
The
land and barns, however, remain. Following are the pictures:
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September
4, 2007