Odolanów

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Odolanów
Odolanów Coat of Arms
Odolanów (Poland)
Odolanów
Odolanów
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Greater Poland
Powiat : Ostrowski
Area : 4.76  km²
Geographic location : 51 ° 34 '  N , 17 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '0 "  N , 17 ° 40' 0"  E
Residents : 5135
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 63-430
Telephone code : (+48) 62
License plate : POS
Economy and Transport
Street : Ostrzeszów - Krotoszyn
Rail route : Warsaw - Wroclaw
Next international airport : Poses
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban and rural municipality
Surface: 136.03 km²
Residents: 14,641
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 108 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 3017033
Administration (as of 2015)
Mayor : Marian Janicki
Address: Rynek 1
63-430 Odolanów
Website : www.odolanow.pl



Odolanów ( German Adelnau ) is a city in western Poland . It belongs to the powiat Ostrowski in the Greater Poland Voivodeship , is located about 120 km south of Poznan and is the seat of the urban and rural municipality of the same name .

Geography and traffic

Odolanów is located in the south of Greater Poland in the wide valley of the Bartsch (Polish Barycz ) not far from the border with Lower Silesia . On both sides of the border, the landscape is characterized by extensive mixed forests and a multitude of watercourses and ponds.

The main line of the railway from Warsaw via Łódź and Kalisz to Wroclaw runs through Odolanów . The closest major cities are Ostrów Wielkopolski , 13 kilometers northeast, and Kalisz, 37 kilometers northeast of Odolanów.

history

City and district of Adelnau southeast of the city of Posen and southwest of the city of Kalisch on a map of the province of Posen from 1905 (areas marked in yellow indicate areas with a predominantly Polish- speaking population at the time ).

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1301 as Odelnove , at that time it already had a fortified castle. The place name probably goes back to a landlord named Odolan . After the neighboring Silesian principalities left the Polish state in the 14th century, Odolanów became a strategically important border town.

Serious conflicts with the Polish crown broke out during the second half of the 14th century when the owner of the place, aristocrat Bartosz Wezenborg from Lusatia and from the Nałęcz heraldic tribe , started a civil war throughout Greater Poland from Odolanów against what was then ruling Poland House Anjou called and steered. In 1373 he arbitrarily elevated his ancestral seat to the city. As the successor of the Anjou, King Władysław II. Jagiełło initially banished the rebellious Bartosz Wezenborg from Poland, but in 1387 appointed him voivode of Posen . King Władysław II Jagiełło gave Odolanów city rights again around 1400, after he had made the place a crown domain in 1386 with the rank of Starostei .

In the following centuries , the crown enfeoffed several Polish noble families with Odolanów, whose economic heyday falls in the 16th century . Among them were the Zborowski, the Leszczyński and the Sułkowski. Blacksmithing flourished on site, and there were also ore mines and breweries. The Second Northern War (1655–1661) of Poland against Sweden and Russia for supremacy in the Baltic Sea region put an end to Odolanów's heyday for the time being.

After the Second Partition of Poland , Odolanów came under Prussian sovereignty in 1793 and then again in 1815 ; henceforth it was called Adelnau . From 1793 to 1815 and from 1887 to 1932 Adelnau was the seat of the Adelnau district . In 1817 Adelnau had two Catholic and one Protestant churches and 147 houses. In 1832 the city fortifications were torn down, and the synagogue was built in 1835 .

After the re-establishment of the Polish state in 1919 Odolanów came to Poland. From 1975 to 1998 the city was administratively part of the Kalisch Voivodeship ; since then it has been part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship . In the 1960s, natural gas was discovered in the Odolanów municipality . A regionally not insignificant mining industry developed.

Population numbers

  • 1800: 996, including 34 Jews
  • 1816: 1,112, including 48 Jews
  • 1843: 1.827
  • 1861: 1.931
  • 1909: 2,286, including 349 Protestants and 166 Jews

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Martins Monument

Sights include the late baroque Catholic parish church of St. Martin (1794) and the neo-Gothic town hall (1899), various parks. In the park at ul. 1 Maja there is an obelisk commemorating the Wielkopolska Uprising and the fallen of World War II . In the park at ul. Kaliska there are numerous fountains and a larger than life equestrian figure of St. Martin (1999), the patron of the city and its surroundings.

The entire area around Odolanów, which is partly part of the Krajobrazowy Dolina Baryczy Park ( Bartschbruch Landscape Park ), the largest Polish nature park (since 1996), is also interesting . Fourteen kilometers southeast of the city lies the hamlet of Antonin with the Radziwiłłs' hunting lodge, which is well worth seeing .

sons and daughters of the town

local community

The urban and rural municipality Odolanów consists of 16 districts in addition to the eponymous capital:

Surname German name
(1815-1919)		 German name
(1939-1945)
infant Babe Babe
Biadaszki Biadaszki Biadaszki
Boników Bonikov Feldmark
Garki Garki 1939–1943 Deutschweiler
1943–1945 Eisenweiler
Gliśnica Glisnica Schönfeld
Gorzyce Małe Little Gorzyce Klein Bittersdorf
Grochowiska Grochowisko Grochowisko
Huta Hutta Erzhagen
Kaczory Kaczuren Kaczuren
Kuroch Kuroch Kuroch
Lipiny sweetheart sweetheart
Nabyszyce Nabyszyce Holzhausen
Nadstawki Nadstawki Reed pond
Papiernia Papiernia ?
Raczyce Raczyce Long distances
Świeca Swieca Lichtenfeld
Tarchały Małe Little Tarchaly ?
Tarchały Wielkie Great Tarchaly 1939–1943 Friedenau
1943–1945 Tarchenfeld
Trzcieliny Trzcieliny ?
Uciechów Uciechow Bearded willow
Wierzbno Wierzbno Thomaswalde
Wisławka Chausseehaus Chausseehaus

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. 265-266.

Web links

Commons : Odolanów  - collection of images, 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. ^ History of Odolanów ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Georg Hassel Complete and newest description of the earth of the Prussian monarchy and the Free State of Krakow . Weimar 1819, p. 610 .
  4. ^ A b c 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. 265-266.
  5. ↑ Meyers Konvwersations lexicon
  6. ↑ a b Cf. Deutsche Topograph. Map, 4472 Adelnau