Luboń

Luboń
	Luboń
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Greater Poland
Powiat :	Poznański
Area :	13.52  km²
Geographic location :	52 ° 20 '  N , 16 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '0 "  N , 16 ° 53' 0"  E
Height :	69.8-83.3 m npm
Residents :	31,891 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	62-030
Telephone code :	(+48) 61
License plate :	PZ (formerly POZ)
Economy and Transport
Street :	A2
	Droga wojewódzka 430
Rail route :	Leszno – Poznan
	Wolsztyn – Luboń
Next international airport :	Poses
Gmina
Gminatype:	Borough
Surface:	13.52 km²
Residents:	31,891 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	2359 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ):	3021011
Administration (as of 2017)
City President :	Małgorzata Machalska
Address:	pl. E. Bojanowskiego 2 62-030 Luboń
Website :	www.lubon.pl

Luboń [ 'lubɔɲ ] ( German Luban , 1939–1943 Lobau ) is a town in the Poznański powiat in the Greater Poland Voivodeship , Poland . It is the seat of the municipality of the same name ( Gmina miejska ).

geography

Luboń is located 7.5 km southwest of Poznan on the Warta . Both cities have merged with each other, so that there is no longer any visual distinction.

Districts

Surname	German name (1815-1918)	German name (1939-1945)
Lasek	Lassek	Langenwalde
Stary Luboń	Luban	1939–1943 Lobau 1943–1945 Luban
Żabikowo	Zabikowo	Poggenburg

history

Luboń

The first written mention of Luban comes from 1296.

Around 1719, 60 German settlers from the Archdiocese of Bamberg were settled in Lubon.

The German entrepreneur Moritz Milch bought a piece of land in the small town in 1907 in order to build a chemical factory for the production of artificial fertilizers from 1910 to 1912. With a production capacity of 120,000 tons of superphosphate per year, the factory was one of the most modern artificial fertilizer production companies of the time. The Berlin architect Hans Poelzig designed the factory buildings including a workers' housing estate belonging to the factory. Up until the 1920s, the Luban chemical plant was one of the best-known examples of new industrial architecture. Today, only a few remains of the plant have survived. When, after the end of the First World War, the province of Posen, which had previously been part of the German Empire, became part of the newly founded Polish Republic , the Polish fertilizer producer Roman May bought the factory in 1920.

In 1942, under German occupation , a labor camp was set up in Luboń on the city limits of Poznan to build the Reichsautobahn . In the course of a Germanization intended by the National Socialists , the place was temporarily renamed Lobau .

Żabikowo

The first mention of the village comes from the year 1283. In 1942 a labor camp was also set up in Żabikowo to build the Reichsautobahn.

Lasek

The village was founded in 1756.

1954 until today

In 1954, the city of Luboń was formed through the merger of the villages of Lasek, Stary Luboń and Żabikowo.

From 1975 to 1998 the city was part of the Poznan Voivodeship .

Web links

Commons : Luboń  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City website
• Website of the memorial and the museum for the labor camps (multilingual)

Footnotes

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. ^ Prussian document book of the University of Hamburg
3. ↑ Bamberg colonization of the Poznan villages ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF file; 783 kB)