Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tīmata nga Masurians ki te noho ki te rohe i te rau tau 16, i te mea he wāhanga o te Duchy o Prussia, he rangatiratanga o te Rangatiratanga o Poland. I timata te whakataunga i te tau 1565, i te wa i whakatuhia ai te taone e Caspar von Nostitz i te Mei 15, 1570. I te wāhi whai hua i te whakawhitinga o ētahi ara hokohoko e tata ana ki te rohe o Prussia ki Lithuania, ka tere te tipu o Gołdap. Ko tana koti o nga patu e whakaatu ana i te Whare o Hohenzollern me Brandenburg, i te mea ko te reta "S" e tu ana mo Sigismund II Augustus, Kingi o Poland, ko ia te rangatira o te rohe. I te tau 1656, i te wā o te
I te Pakanga Polish-Swedish, ko nga hoia Polish i raro i te whakahau a Dymitr Jerzy Wiśniowiecki i tu ki Gołdap.