Gębice (Mogilno)

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Gębice ( German Gembitz , 1815-1875 Gembice ) is a place in the municipality Mogilno in the powiat Mogileński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .

location

The village is located about 50 kilometers south of the city of Bydgoszcz (German Bromberg ) in a swampy valley on the upper reaches of the Netze on the former railway line Mogilno-Orchowo .

history

Church in Gembitz

The village is first mentioned in 1365 as Wambicze , but at that time it was still a village. With the relevant document, King Kasimar the Great left a deserted area near the village to the former mayor of Wambicze, Jakob, for the purpose of establishing a settlement there under German law. The village developed into a small town; In 1458 she had to provide ten warriors to the army. It belonged to a manor; their owner lived in the Vorwerk on a hill next to the city. The city suffered from conflagrations, which reduced the population considerably.

1772 came with the Gembitz Netzedistrict to Prussia . At the time of occupation, the village was mainly inhabited by Poles; later some evangelical German colonists settled there. In the last quarter of the 18th century there was a Catholic church and a Protestant school in the village. Around 1836 there were two Catholic churches and a synagogue in Gembitz . The city belonged to the Mogilno district in the Posen Province of the German Empire until 1920 , but then had to be ceded to the Second Polish Republic due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . In 1934 it lost its town charter.

In 1939 Gembitz was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and then, contrary to international law, the Reichsgau Wartheland was incorporated, to which it belonged until 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War , the village was occupied by the Red Army and became Polish again.

Development of the population

  • 1780: 286
  • 1783: 315, mostly Poland
  • 1788: 388
  • 1816: 483, including 305 Catholics, 81 Evangelicals and 52 Jews
  • 1843: 731
  • 1861: 764
  • 1885: 1.012

Personalities

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. 311.
  • Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia. Second part, which contains the topography of West Prussia . Kantersche Hofdruckerei, Marienwerder 1789, pp. 94–95, no. 10.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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, p. 311.
  2. ^ A b c d Johann Friedrich Goldbeck: Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia. Second part, which contains the topography of West Prussia . Kantersche Hofdruckerei, Marienwerder 1789, pp. 94–95, no. 10.
  3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Province of Posen, Mogilno district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '  N , 18 ° 2'  E