Transferred to eastern Prussia, they dug antitank trenches.

From 1709-11 eastern Prussia suffered from a plague.

Gustav Klaudat was born in eastern Prussia.

Expellees from eastern Prussia that were resettled in Xanten caused the population to rise by almost 40%.

They also tried to prove that even eastern Prussia was, in times past, tied in some way to Poland.

By 1759 eastern Prussia was in the hands of the Russians, and Berlin had been captured.

Consequently, from 1757-1762 the town, along with the rest of eastern Prussia, was dependent on the Russian Empire.

Imperial Russian troops occupied eastern Prussia at the beginning of 1758 during the Seven Years' War.

Economic reasons led to a westward migration of Germans from eastern Prussia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Ostflucht).

During Tatar attacks in eastern Prussia, the village was burned down on 7 February 1657, and many inhabitants were kidnapped.