Lubin

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Lubin
Coat of arms of Lubin
Lubin (Poland)
Lubin
Lubin
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Lubin
Area : 40.68  km²
Geographic location : 51 ° 24 '  N , 16 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '0 "  N , 16 ° 12' 0"  E
Height : 72 m npm
Residents : 72,428
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 59-300
Telephone code : (+48) 76
License plate : DLU
Economy and Transport
Street : E 65 Nowa Sól - Legnica
Zielona Góra - Wroclaw
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 40.68 km²
Residents: 72,428
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 1780 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0211011
Administration (as of 2015)
City President : Robert Raczyński
Address: Rynek 25
59-300 Lubin
Website : www.um.lubin.pl



Lubin [ ˈlubjin ], German  Lüben , is a city in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia . Lubin is the county seat of the Powiat Lubiński ( Lubin County ). After 1945 it became one of the most important industrial locations in Lower Silesia.

From 1348 to 1453 Lüben was the capital of the Duchy of Lüben . In the 16th century it was used as a personal item for Brieger Duchesses.

Geographical location

The city is located on the river Zimnica ( Cold Brook ) in Lower Silesia , about 71 km northwest of Wroclaw , 20 km north of Legnica ( Liegnitz ) and about 84 km south of Zielona Góra ( Grünberg ).

history

Old view of Lüben from the middle of the 18th century
Lüben north of Liegnitz on a map from 1905
town hall
Glogau Tower
Sacred Heart Church at night
Jadwiga chapel of the former castle

In the 12th century, as a fortified place, Lubin was the seat of a castellany , which was first mentioned in 1155 in a papal bull . In 1178 Lubin received the Polish town charter , the Magdeburg town charter in 1289. Together with the Duchy of Liegnitz it fell to the Crown of Bohemia in 1329 , which the Habsburgs held from 1526 . After the First Silesian War , most of Silesia fell to Prussia in 1742 . From 1816 to 1945 it was the seat of the Lüben district . From 1936 to 1945, the Lüben Air Base, today's Lubin Airfield, was located here .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Lüben was taken by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 and soon afterwards, almost all of Silesia was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power . Lüben received the Polish name Lubin . Unless they had fled before, the German population was subsequently expelled by the local Polish administrative authority .

In the post-war years, the Polish government forced the mining of mineral resources in the occupied part of Lower Silesia. In 1957, large copper deposits were discovered, which subsequently led to an increase in the number of inhabitants of the city to 33 times by 1989 (company: KGHM Polska Miedź ).

On August 31, 1982, security forces of the then communist government ( ZOMO ) shot at demonstrators in the city . Three people were killed and more than ten injured. (see Martial Law in Poland 1981–1983 )

On March 15, 1991, the two-plus-four treaty came into force, with which the factual affiliation of Lubin to Poland was also confirmed under international law.

Population development

year Residents Remarks
1748 1,985
1775 1,830
1800 2,292
1810 2,622 including 2,347 Evangelicals, 269 Catholics and six Jews
1831 3,022 including 2,674 Evangelicals, 331 Catholics and 17 Jews
1858 4,339 of which 3,755 Protestants, 477 Catholics, 16 other Christians, 91 Jews
1890 6.131 thereof 5,072 Evangelicals, 1,006 Catholics and 51 Jews
1900 6.112 (including the garrison consisting of a No. 4 dragoon regiment) mostly Evangelicals
1900 8,670 mostly Evangelicals, 1,350 Catholics, 30 Israelites, 160 others
1933 9,637
1939 9,920 7,939 Protestants, 1,686 Catholics, 55 other Christians and 13 Jews

Rural community

The rural municipality of Lubin, to which the municipality itself does not belong, has 16,052 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

Personalities

Politics and administration

City President

At the head of the city administration is the city ​​president . Since 2002 this has been Robert Raczyński, who held this position from 1990 to 1994. After he had been elected for the Partia Chrześcijańskich Demokratów in 1990 and for the Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność in 2002 , he has been a member of his own election committee since 2006. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following results:

  • Robert Raczyński (Election Committee “Robert Raczyński Lubin 2006”) 58.5% of the vote
  • Krzysztof Kubów ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 28.4% of the vote
  • Agnieszka Kubica-Radek (Election Committee “Yes to Lubin”) 5.0% of the vote
  • Grzegorz Zieliński ( Koalicja Obywatelska ) 3.3% of the vote
  • Edyta Zawadzka (Election Committee “The City for the Inhabitants”) 3.1% of the vote
  • Remaining 1.5% of the vote

Raczyński was thus re-elected for a further term in the first ballot.

City council

The city council has 23 members who are directly elected. The election in October 2018 led to the following result:

  • Election Committee “Robert Raczyński Lubin 2006” 43.1% of the vote, 13 seats
  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 31.4% of the vote, 9 seats
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 10.7% of the votes, 1 seat
  • Election committee "Janusz Radzikowski for Inowrocław - Yes please" 5.7% of the vote, no seat
  • Election committee “The city for the inhabitants” 4.8% of the vote, no seat
  • Kukiz'15 4.8% of the vote, no seat

Town twinning

Lubin maintains city partnerships with the cities of Bad Ems and Böblingen from Germany.

Sports

The largest football club in the city is Zagłębie Lubin , this club plays in the highest Polish league, the Ekstraklasa .

literature

  • Konrad Klose : Contributions to the history of the city of Lüben . Lüben 1924 ( e-copy ).

Web links

Commons : Lubin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lüben in der Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae  - sources and full texts

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. ^ City website, Prezydent Miasta , accessed February 23, 2015
  3. ↑ Compare Liuba the goddess of spring, love and fertility, (Old Slavic "love" or "the lover").
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Konrad Klose : Contributions to the history of the city of Lüben . Lüben 1924, pp. 484-485.
  5. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lüben district (Polish Lubin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 12, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 760.
  7. ↑ The Big Brockhaus . 15th edition, Volume 11, Leipzig 1932, p. 606.
  8. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 22, 2020.
  9. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 22, 2020.