Grodzisk Wielkopolski

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Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Coat of arms of Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Grodzisk Wielkopolski (Poland)
Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Greater Poland
Powiat : Grodzisk
Area : 18.08  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 14 '  N , 16 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '0 "  N , 16 ° 22' 0"  E
Residents : 14,644
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 62-065
Telephone code : (+48) 61
License plate : PGO
Economy and Transport
Street : Wolsztyn - Poznan
Next international airport : Poses
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Surface: 134.0 km²
Residents: 20,010
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 149 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 3005023
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Henryk Szymański
Address: Stary Rynek 1
62-065 Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Website : www.grodzisk.wlkp.pl



Listen to Grodzisk Wielkopolski ? / i [ ˈgrɔʥisk vʲɛlkɔˈpɔlski ] (German Grätz ) is a city in Poland in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolskie). Audio file / audio sample

Geographical location

The city is located southwest of the city of Poznan .

history

Grätz southwest of the city of Poznan and south-east of the city of Neutomischel on a map of the province of Poznan from 1905 (areas marked in yellow indicate areas with a predominantly Polish- speaking population at the time ).
town hall
Former Protestant church
Former seat of the district office of the district Grätz in Grätz
Szeroka Street (Broad Street)

The first permanent settlement in the area of ​​today's Grodzisk Wielkopolski dates back to 1257. The spelling of the name changed several times, versions are: Grodisze, Grottische, Grodisce, Grozisce, Grodih, Grodziscz, Grodyscze, Grodzysko, Grodzisko , to the usual ones today Grodzisk . The German name Grätz was also used at times .

It is not known exactly when the place was granted city rights. From documents it is clear that the place already had town charter in 1303. In 1312 Grodis is mentioned in the estate division of the Glogau dukes to whom the village was subordinate at that time. In the late Middle Ages , the city was one of the largest cities in Greater Poland.

The first Jews settled at the beginning of the 16th century. The first document to prove this is from 1505, it mentions the Jew Abraham von Grodzisk. In Yiddish and Hebrew the place was called גרידץ (Gritz or Gritza).

In 1563 Stanisław Ostroróg founded a school in the town.

In 1593 the town charter was granted again to Grodzisk Wielkopolski, which now had around 1,160 inhabitants. The renewal of the town charter took place with the foundation of a new town about 150 m from the old town. In 1601 the first brewery privileges were granted. The place quickly became an important place for brewing beer and developed the Grätzer, an independent (wheat) type of beer . At the end of the 18th century there were 53 breweries in the city. In 1626 the owners of the town changed to the Opaliński family . They remained the owners until 1775.

With the Second Polish partition , the city was added to Prussia in 1793 and was assigned to the newly formed province of South Prussia . At the end of the 18th century there were four Catholic churches, a synagogue , two public buildings, two mills and 346 houses (four of them with tiled roofs ) in Grätz ; The main trade was brewing beer .

Belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw between 1807 and 1815 , the city returned to Prussia in 1815 and from then on belonged to the Province of Posen . From 1887 to 1918 Grätz was the seat of the district of Grätz , then a Polish powiat until 1932 , after the city had to be ceded to the Second Polish Republic in 1920 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty .

During the Second World War , the city was annexed by Germany from 1939 to 1945 and assigned to the Reichsgau Wartheland . A transit camp was set up in nearby Młyniewo for onward transport to concentration camps , initially for Jews, later also for resettled Poles and prisoners of war.

On January 27, 1945, the Red Army reached the city of Grätz and ended the German occupation.

The increasingly declining beer production was completely stopped in 1993. In 1999 the city became the seat of a powiat again .

Population numbers

  • 1800: 2,581, including 1,135 Jews
  • 1816: 2,980
  • 1843: 3,653
  • 1861: 3,959
  • 1875: 3.584
  • 1880: 3.701
  • 1890: 3,812, of which 908 are Protestants, 2,442 Catholics and 462 Jews

Gmina

The urban and rural municipality Grodzisk Wielkopolski consists of the following localities:

Surname German name
(1815-1918)		 German name
(1939–45)
Albertowsko Albertoske 1939–43 Albertshof
1943–45 Albertsdorf
Biała Wieś Weisshauland Weisshauland
Borzyslaw Borzyslaw Vorwerk Vorwerk Hellau
Khrustovo Khrustovo Korngut
Czarna Wieś Schwarzhauland Schwarzhauland
Grąblewo Gromblewo 1939–43 Bahneck
1943–45 Grommau
Grodzisk Wielkopolski Grätz Grätz
Kąkolewo Konkolewo 1939–43 Rotenau
1943–45 Kunklau
Kobylniki Kobylnik Couple
Kurowo Kurowo Hennersdorf
Lasówki Lazovko ?
Ptaszkowo Ptaszkowo 1939–43 Gildenau
1943–45 Gildau
Rojewo Rojewo
1906-18 Waldhorst 		Waldhorst
Słocin Slocin Vorwalden
Snowidowo Snowidowo Snowfield
Sworzyce Sworzyce Forest rest
Woźniki Woznik, older Wornike Alder break
Zdrój Zdroj Grätz dismantling

Town twinning

Personalities

Born in Grätz / Grodzisk
Connected with Grätz
Born in today's church

Attractions

The old town is characterized by buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. The classicist town hall, built in the mid-19th century, is located on the Altmarkt. In the old town are the Catholic Church of St. Hedwig, built in the first half of the 15th century, rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 17th century, the former monastery church of the St. Bernardines built in the 17th century in the Baroque style and the neo-Gothic Church of the Sacred Heart Jesu , built in 1904/1905 as a Protestant church based on plans by Ludwig von Tiedemann .

Sports

The football club Dyskobolia Grodzisk played until the 2007/08 season in the top Polish league, when the club merged with Polonia Warszawa , which took the place of Grodzisk in the Ekstraklasa . The club has been in the 4th division since the 2008/09 season.

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. 322-324.
  • Aaron Heppner, Isaak Herzberg : From the past and present of the Jews and the Jewish communities in the Posener Lands. Self-published, Koschmin and Bromberg 1909, p. 420 ff.
  • Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin: Branch lines and their routes in western Poland. Wolsztyn and the surrounding area. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-8083-4 .

Web links

Commons : Grodzisk Wielkopolski  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 322-324.
  3. ↑ Otto Dalchow: The cities of the Wartheland. A contribution to the settlement and regional studies of the province of Poznan . Noske, Borna / Leipzig 1910, p. 108.
  4. ↑ Aaron Heppner, Isaak Herzberg: From the past and present of the Jews and the Jewish communities in the Posener lands. Self-published, Koschmin and Bromberg 1909, p. 420.
  5. ↑ http://braumagazin.de/article/graetzer-kehrt-zurueck/
  6. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_graez.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=351