Elditten was part of East Prussia in the 1800's. It is now named Eldyty Wielkie and is part of Poland.

Modern Day Elditten (Eldyty) German Name - Elditten Today's Name - Eldyty Wielkie Kreis/County - Heilsberg German Province - Ostpreussen (Opr.) Today's Province - Warmia-Mazury (Olsztynskie - see note below) Location - East 20°10' North 54°00' Location Description - This village/town is located 5.0 km and 276 degrees from Wolfsdorf, which is known today as Wilczkowo Note: On July 27, 1998, the president of Poland A. Kwasniewski signed into law a bill dividing Poland into 16 new provinces, instead 49 provinces. Portions of Elblag, Olsztyn, Suwalki and Ostroleka are incorportated into the new province of Warmia-Mazury. The capital of this new province is the city of Olsztyn. The above information was identified by the website http://www.kartenmeister.com. It shows old East Prussian/German town names, and the name today. The map shows the area of modern day Poland where Elditten (Eldyty) exists. East Prussia became divided between Poland and Russia after WWII. Click here for a current map of Eldyty. Look at the bottom of the map for the grey dot.

Old Elditten Elditten was in a region of East Prussia called Ermland, also known as Warmia. This area was predominantly Catholic and the inhabitants spoke German. See section below on Ermland. http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/changes.htm - great website explaining the 19th century Prussian provinces. Click here for a map created in 1755 that shows Elditten at the bottom of the map to the right of Liebstadt. Map is courtesy of website http://mitglied.lycos.de/wm727/ke/Ermland1755.htm The inscription on the map and doesn't quite make sense because I used a free German to English translation: Mathematician Johannes Friedrich Endersch in 1755 in Elbing created the geographic card of the diocese Ermland in Prussia that Tabula Geographica Episcopatum Warmiensem in Prussia Exhibiens drawn. On it, offices, cities, villages and mill of the Ermlands are indicated. The topography is indicated in the manner corresponding to the at that time time. Especially jewelry full the insignia are and crest as well as the city panorama healthy mountain in the lower left part of the card. Other interesting East Prussian maps can be found at: http://www.maphistory.info/imageeur.html http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html

What is Ermland?

Civic arms of Heilsberg

Civic arms of Warmia (Olsztyn) Heilsberg county/district was in a region of East Prussia called Ermland. Ermland was a region extending from the Baltic Sea to far inland. It was ceded to Poland in 1466 by the Teutonic Knights. At the time of the first Partition of Poland (1772) Ermland became part of the kingdom of Prussia. In the treaty of Warsaw (September 18, 1773), King Fredrich II guaranteed the free exercise of religion for the Catholics of the annexed provinces. It ceased existence in 1945 after WWII.