Chodzież

Chodzież
	Chodzież
	Chodzież
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Greater Poland
Powiat :	Chodzież
Area :	13.0 km²
Geographic location :	52 ° 59 ′ N , 16 ° 55 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 16 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	192 m npm
Residents :	18,602 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	64-800 to 64-801
Telephone code :	(+48) 67
License plate :	PCH
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Poznan – Piła
Next international airport :	Poznań-Ławica
Gmina
Gminatype:	Borough
Surface:	13.0 km²
Residents:	18,602 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	1431 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	3001011
Administration (as of 2017)
Mayor :	Jacek Gursz
Address:	ul. Paderewskiego 2 ; 64-800 Chodzież
Website :	www.chodziez.pl
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Chodzież [ ˈxɔdzʲɛʃ ] ( German until 1878 Chodziesen and Kodschesen, from 1878 to 1919 Colmar and from 1939 to 1945 Kolmar in Poznan ) is a small town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

Geographical location

The city is located about 70 km north of Poznań in the Chodzieskie Lake District, a hilly, wooded moraine landscape. There are three lakes within the city limits, Miejskie (104 ha), Karczewnik (34 ha) and Strzeleckie (18 ha).

history

The village of Chodzież was first mentioned in documents in 1409. In 1434 it was granted city rights and the first craftsmen, especially weavers , dyers and drapers , settled there. In 1458 the city was still small: it had only two warriors to provide for the army.

Caused by the Swedish-Polish War , in which the citizens of the town are said to have valiantly defended themselves against the Swedes in 1656, there was a second, larger wave of craftsmen immigrating; Chodzież was expanded to include the western New Town. In the 18th century the town belonged to the Grudziński family, who owned a castle in it. The castle gradually fell into disrepair after the family had built a new permanent residence a few kilometers away on their farm.

During the first partition of Poland , the city fell to Prussia in 1773 . In the 19th century, von Zacha auf Strelitz owned the town. In 1818 Chodziesen became the administrative seat of the Chodziesen district . There was a Protestant church, a Catholic church and a synagogue in the city . During the Polish uprising in Poznan in the spring of 1848, Chodziesen's city representatives took part in the people's assembly on April 8 in Schneidemühl and expressed their solidarity with the city of Bromberg .

In 1879 the Posen – Colmar – Schneidemühl railway line was opened, and District Administrator Axel von Colmar was particularly committed to building it. As early as 1878 the city of Chodziesen was renamed Kolmar in Poznan in his honor .

In the castle of Chodziesen, which had been abandoned by the landlords at the beginning of the 19th century, an earthenware factory was set up after it had served temporarily as a brewery. In 1897 a porcelain factory was added, with 2000 employees at times, which still exists today. Chodzież porcelain is known all over Poland.

In the course of the November Revolution in 1918, Polish and German people's and soldiers' councils and Polish troop associations were formed in the province of Posen . It came to the armed Polish uprising in which on January 8, 1919 Kolmar was conquered by the Poles. After negotiations, the troops withdrew again that same night; the city became neutral until German troops marched in on February 3. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , Kolmar came to the Polish state in 1920 and was officially called Chodzież again from then on.

At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 the German Wehrmacht occupied Chodzież. The city received the name of Germany and became district town in the district of Kolmar in Posen in Reichsgau poses . From 1940 to 1945 Kolmar was the district town of the Kolmar (Wartheland) district in the Reichsgau Wartheland . As a result of the Vistula-Oder operation , Poland got the city back at the end of January 1945. As far as the members of the German minority not before the approaching army Reds had fled, they were in the aftermath sold .

Population numbers

Chodzież (1930s)

Chodzież (today)

1788: 1,528, including 279 Jews
1806: 2,397
1816: only 2,029, including 724 Jews, 672 Protestants and 633 Catholics
1837: 2,925
1861: 2.285
1875: 2,919
1880: 3.146
2014: 19,349

Town twinning

Chodzież has been a twin town of Nottuln in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1992 .

traffic

Chodzież has a station on the Poznań – Piła railway line (another stop in Milcz), and the Gołańcz – Chodzież railway line also began here earlier .

Gmina

Chodzież is the seat of the rural community Chodzież, to which the town itself does not belong.

Personalities

Dagobert Friedlaender (1826–1904), banker
Georg Johow (1862–1945), Lieutenant General
Albert Zander (1864–1897), engineer, photographer and entrepreneur
Max Baginski (1891–1964), entrepreneur, inventor and advertising specialist
Käthe Korth (1902–1982), writer
Horst-Günther Güttner (1912–1983), pathologist
Adam Harasiewicz (* 1932), Polish pianist
Wilfriede Hoffmann (1932–2010), German athlete

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, p. 335.
Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia. Second part, which contains the topography of West Prussia . Kantersche Hofdruckerei, Marienwerder 1789, p. 112, No. 6)

Web links

Commons : Chodzież - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the state of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, p. 335.
^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The Prussian state in all its relationships . Volume 3, Berlin 1837, p. 169.
↑ Peter Oliver Loew a . a, (Ed.): Recovered History. For appropriating the past in the interstices of Central Europe . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05297-9 , pp. 271, 283 f.
↑ www.territorial.de The district of Kolmar (Wartheland)
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_kolmar.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .

[HW-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the state of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, p. 335.

[LZ-3] Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The Prussian state in all its relationships . Volume 3, Berlin 1837, p. 169.

[4] Peter Oliver Loew a . a, (Ed.): Recovered History. For appropriating the past in the interstices of Central Europe . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05297-9 , pp. 271, 283 f.

[5] www.territorial.de The district of Kolmar (Wartheland)

[MR-6] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_kolmar.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).