Łasin
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Grudziądzki | ||
| Gmina : | Łasin | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 31 ' N , 19 ° 5' E | ||
| Residents : | 3347 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 86-320 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) (+48) 056 | ||
| License plate : | CGR | ||
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| Next international airport : | Bydgoszcz | ||
Łasin [ ˈwaɕin ] ( German Lessen ) is a town in the powiat Grudziądzki of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 8100 inhabitants.
Geographical location
The city is located in the former West Prussia , south of the Danzig Bay , about 25 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of Kwidzyn (Marienwerder) and 22 kilometers east-northeast of Grudziądz (Graudenz) .
history
The first human traces on the urban area date from the Neolithic Age , from the years 2500–1700 BC. In the years 1298–1461 the city belonged to the Teutonic Knights . The Teutonic Knights Master Meinhard von Querfurt granted the settlement the locational privilege in 1298, whereby the city was founded on the basis of Magdeburg law .
Between 1466 and 1772 the city belonged to the autonomous Royal Prussia under Polish patronage . As part of the first partition of Poland-Lithuania in 1772, Lessen came to the Kingdom of Prussia .
Presumably after 1800 the arrival of Jewish families took place. Since 1817, burials of Jewish people took place in an area next to the communal cemetery. There was a synagogue in the village since the second half of the 19th century. Between 1920 and 1939 the city belonged to the Second Polish Republic .
Until 1919 Lessen belonged to the district of Graudenz in the administrative district of Marienwerder in the province of West Prussia of the German Empire .
After the end of World War I , Lessen had to be ceded to Poland in 1920 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty establishing the Polish Corridor . Due to the attack on Poland in 1939, Lessen and the Graudenz district came to the German Reich in violation of international law and were assigned to the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , to which it belonged until 1945.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the region in the spring of 1945 .
Population numbers
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1816 | 1,089 | |
| 1852 | 1,977 | |
| 1864 | 2,187 | including 492 Evangelicals and 1,352 Catholics |
| 1875 | 2,342 | |
| 1880 | 2,286 | |
| 1890 | 2,190 | 540 Protestants, 1,414 Catholics and 230 Jews |
local community
The urban and rural community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Łasin includes the city and 19 villages with school authorities and other smaller towns.
traffic
The Łasin station north of the city was the terminus of the Gardeja – Łasin line until 1979 . A few years later, the former train station Szonowo Szlacheckie on the day as was decommissioned railway line Jabłonowo Pomorskie-Prabuty to Łasin Pomorski renamed. This station was a few kilometers east of the city.
Łasin is located on national road 16 and voivodship road 538 .
Personalities
- Christine Poniatovska (1610–1644), Polish writer and seer
- Ludwig Lessen (Louis Salomon) (1873–1943), German journalist and writer
- Heiner Stadler (1942–2018) German-American composer and music producer
Attractions
- Katherinenkirche
- Water tower from 1893
- Municipal building from 1900
Katherinenkirche
Lessensee
Water tower from 1893
literature
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part II: Topography of West Prussia , Marienwerder 1789, p. 36, no. 6.) .
- August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore . Königsberg 1835, pp 439-440, n. 53 .
- Xaver Frölich : History of the Graudenzer Kreis . Volume 1, Graudenz 1868, pp. 184-197.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the administrative district Marienwerder . Danzig 1868, p. 19, no.25.
- ^ Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state '. Berlin 1856, p. 347.
- ^ E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the administrative district Marienwerder . Danzig 1868, locality directory of the Marienwerder administrative district , pp. 22–23, no. 96.
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dan_graudenz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).