Żnin

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Żnin
Coat of arms of Żnin
Żnin (Poland)
Żnin
Żnin
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Kuyavian Pomeranian
Powiat : Żnin
Gmina : Żnin
Area : 8.35  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 41 ′  N , 17 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 85 m npm
Residents : 13,864 (June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 88-400 to 88-401
License plate : CZN
Economy and Transport
Street : Gniezno - Bydgoszcz
Next international airport : Poses



Żnin [ ˈʒɲin ] ( German Znin , 1941–1945 Dietfurt ; formerly Schnin ) is a town in the powiat Żniński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . The city with about 13,850 inhabitants is the seat of the Powiat and the city-and-country municipality of the same name with a little more than 24,000 inhabitants.

Geographical location

City panorama with the market square in the city center

Żnin is located in the former Poznan region on both sides of the Gąsawka (Gonsawka) between the Duże Żnińskie and Małe Żnińskie ( Big and Small Znin Lakes ), about 30 kilometers southwest of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) and 75 kilometers northeast of the city of Poznan .

history

Żnin city center

The origin of the place probably goes back to the 11th century. The oldest written mention can be found in a papal document from 1136, which transferred this and 29 other places into the property of the Archbishop of Gniezno ( Archbishopric Gniezno ). In 1148 a separate diocese was established in Żnin. At that time the city was also the seat of a castellany . The date of the city's elevation is sometimes given as 1272, but the relevant documents were already lost in the Middle Ages. In 1331 Żnin was burned down by the Teutonic Knights . After the reconstruction, the city was fortified. King Casimir the Great stayed in Żnin several times and confirmed the city's old privileges. From 1374 Żnin was also a preferred residence of the Archbishops of Gniezno . In the second half of the 17th century, plague, famine and repeated fires depopulated the city. With the first partition of Poland , Żnin came to Prussia in 1772 . During the Napoleonic period it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 , but was again awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1919, after the Poznan uprising and the Treaty of Versailles , the city returned to Poland.

After the attack on Poland in 1939 and the illegal annexation by the German Reich , the city was given the name Dietfurt. In 1942 there was a camp for Department K 4/36 of the Reich Labor Service (RAD). Towards the end of World War II , the region was occupied by the Red Army and has been Polish again since then.

Demographics

Population development until 1921
year population Remarks
1780 562
1783 606
1788 705 in 120 houses
1802 991
1816 931 According to other information, 1,127 inhabitants, of which 134 are Protestants, 930 Catholics, 63 Jews
1821 1261
1826 1520 in 166 houses, 650 Jews
1837 1548
1843 1685
1858 1867
1861 1922
1867 2100 on December 3rd
1871 2237 including 250 Evangelicals, 1550 Catholics and 440 Jews (1400 Poles ); According to other data, 2237 inhabitants (on December 1), including 210 Evangelicals, 1598 Catholics, one other Christian, 428 Jews
1875 2407
1880 2483
1890 2587 including 363 Evangelicals, 1910 Catholics, 313 Jews, one other
1905 4088 including 941 Evangelicals and 241 Jews
1910 4547 on December 1, according to other information, 4553 inhabitants

local community

The urban and rural community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Żnin includes the town and 37 villages with school boards.

City and community partnerships

Transport and sights

The city had a train station on the Inowrocław – Drawski Młyn line, and the Żnin – Szubin line branched off in Żnin .

There was also the dienińska Kolej Powiatowa (Zniner Kreisbahn), which is now partially operated as a museum railway . The Wenecja narrow-gauge railway museum and the often-visited castle ruins are located in the village of Wenecja , through which this railway line passes .

Sports

The Baszta Żnin Association has a motorboat racing department that has been holding a motorboat race on the small lake every year since 1979 . It's almost always about world and European championships. In 2011, a German participant won the gold medal for the first time, Manuel Saueressig from Brodenbach was European champion in the F-4S class.

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, pp. 442-443.
  • Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia . Marienwerder 1789, pp. 92-93

Web links

Commons : Żnin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 5: T – Z , Halle 1823, pp. 376-383, item 647.
  2. ^ A b Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 116, point 5.
  3. ↑ a b c Royal Statistical Office: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Part IV: The Province of Posen , Berlin 1874, pp. 178–179, paragraph 7 ( E-Copy, pp. 185-186 ).
  4. ↑ a b Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1911, p. 1031
  5. ↑ On June 12, 1941, Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick ordered name changes for some cities in the eastern areas annexed by the German Reich ( [1] )
  6. ^ A b Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789, pp. 92–93, point 4.
  7. ^ A b c d e Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, pp. 442-443.
  8. ↑ Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 4, P – S , Halle 1823, p. 262, item 2443 .
  9. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The State Forces of the Prussian Monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III . Volume 2, Part 1, Berlin 1828, pp. 119-120, item 3.
  10. ↑ a b c M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
  11. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 20, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 972 .
  12. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de