Powstanie i funkcjonowanie garnizonu w niewielkim mieście pruskim w XVIII wieku (studium Königsbergu/Chojny we wschodniej Brandenburgii)

Abstract

In the article, conditionings were discussed which laid at the roots of creating and organizing the garrison in a small city in the Eastern Brandenburg and subsequent alternations of stationed there regiments of the infantry. It’s important strategical positioning, close to the Pomeranian theatre of war (3rd Northern War), and later the Silesian one (three Silesian Wars) caused, that for an almost entire 18th century it was marked with the presence of a fixed garrison. This caused certain tensions with the townspeople, inevitable in a situation when every fifth man in town was a soldier; however, it created new development opportunities, which is indicated by almost the duplication of the population within a century and the considerable increase of the number of buildings.