Kłodawa
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Kolski | ||
| Gmina : | Kłodawa | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 15 ′ N , 18 ° 55 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 6446 (June 30, 2019) | ||
| Postal code : | 62-650 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 63 | ||
| License plate : | PKL | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Warsaw - Poznan | ||
| Rail route : | Warsaw – Poznan | ||
| Next international airport : | Łódź-Lublinek | ||
Kłodawa ( German 1940-1945: Tonningen ) is a town in the powiat Kolski of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 12,863 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019) and is located 20 km from the district town of Koło .
history
The town received the town charter on August 9, 1430 from Władysław II Jagiełło . During the second partition of Poland in 1793, Kłodawa came under Prussian rule . In 1806 the city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw and from 1815 part of Congress Poland . In 1867 Kłodawa lost its town charter. After the end of the First World War , the place became part of the newly formed Poland and was granted city rights again in 1925.
local community
The town itself and a number of villages and settlements belong to the town-and-country municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Kłodawa. It has an area of almost 129 km².
Personalities
- Aaron Kosminski (1865–1919), suspect in the " Jack the Ripper " case
- Thaddäus Zajaczkowski (* 1939), urologist and medical historian
- Andrzej Ruciński (* 1958), politician.
