Biskupin (Gąsawa)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Żnin | ||
| Gmina : | Gąsawa | ||
| Area : | 6.6591 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 47 ' N , 17 ° 44' E | ||
| Height : | 92 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 314 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 89-410 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 52 | ||
| License plate : | CZN | ||
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| Next international airport : | Poznan-Ławica | ||
Biskupin (1939–1945 Urstätt ) is a village in the rural community Gąsawa in the powiat Żniński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
Biskupin is located seven kilometers south of Żnin on the west bank of the Jezioro Biskupińskie ( Biskupin Lake ) through which the Gąsawka flows . The östnińska Kolej Powiatowa runs on the eastern edge of the village . The Biskupin Archaeological Museum is just under a kilometer to the east .
Neighboring towns are Skarbienice and Wenecja in the north, Dolna Wenecja in the northeast, Godawy in the east, Łysinin and Gąsawa in the southeast, Marcinkowo Górne in the south, Marcinkowo Dolne in the southwest, Czewujewo in the west and Gogółkowo in the northwest.
history
Between about 700 and 400 BC There was a large fortified settlement on an island on the south bank of the Jezioro Biskupińskie.
With the first partition of Poland, Biskupin came to Prussia in 1772. During the Napoleonic era, the village became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, but was reassigned to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. From 1887 the village belonged to the Znin district . On July 1, 1894, the first stretch of the Znin circular railway from Znin via Biskupin Dorf to Schelejewo as well as the route continuing from Biskupin branch to Rogowo began traffic. In 1919 the village came back to Poland after the Poznan Uprising and the Versailles Treaty. In 1933, the remains of the prehistoric settlement were discovered on the southern shore of the lake, and excavations began the following year. After the invasion of Poland in 1939 and its annexation to the German Empire in violation of international law , Biskupin was renamed Urstätt and belonged to the Dietfurt district (Wartheland) until the end of World War II . At the end of the Second World War, the region was occupied by the Red Army and has been Polish again since then.
Attractions
- Reconstruction of the prehistoric village as an open-air museum
- Narrow-gauge museum train
- Wenecja castle ruins , northeast of the village