Gąsawa

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Gąsawa
Coat of arms of Gmina Gąsawa
Gąsawa (Poland)
Gąsawa
Gąsawa
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Kuyavian Pomeranian
Powiat : Żniński
Gmina : Gąsawa
Geographic location : 52 ° 46 ′  N , 17 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 1400 ()
Postal code : 89-410
Telephone code : (+48) 52
License plate : CZN



Gąsawa ( German Gonsawa , 1939-1945 : Gerlingen ) is a village in the powiat Żniński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with about 5250 inhabitants.

history

Gonsawa, embedded in a lake district, northeast of the city of Poznan and south-east of the city of Bydgoszcz 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 )
17th century church

The first documentary mention of today's Gąsawa comes from the year 1136. In 1388 the place received from Władysław II. Jagiełło town charter which the place should keep until 1934.

In the former Prussian province of Posen , the then city of Gonsawa was in the administrative district of Bromberg , district of Znin, until 1919 .

In 1919 the place became part of the re-established Poland and remained part of it until the occupation in the Second World War by the German Wehrmacht on September 7, 1939. On January 22, 1945 the occupation ended.

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Gąsawa includes 19 villages with school offices.

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. 319.
  • Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia . Marienwerder 1789, p. 94, paragraph 9.

Web links

Commons : Gąsawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Gąsawa  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Szukacz.pl, Gąsawa - Informacje dodatkowe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 30, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mapa.szukacz.pl  
  2. ↑ a b c Website of the municipality, Historia , accessed November 30, 2010