Margonin
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Poland | |
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | |
| Powiat : | Chodzież | |
| Gmina : | Margonin | |
| Area : | 5.15 km² | |
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 58 ' N , 17 ° 5' E | |
| Residents : | 2988 (June 30, 2019) | |
| Postal code : | 64-830 | |
| Telephone code : | (+48) 67 | |
| License plate : | PCH | |
| Economy and Transport | ||
| Street : | Ext. 190 Gniezno - Krajenka | |
| Ext. 193 Chodzież - Gołańcz | ||
| Next international airport : | Bydgoszcz-Szwederowo | |
Margonin is a city in Poland in the Greater Poland Voivodeship . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 6,466 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
Geographical location
Margonin is located on a river that at Szamocin in the networks opens, and a lake. The distance to the city of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) in the east is about 65 kilometers as the crow flies. Poznan , the capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, is about 65 kilometers south of Margonin as the crow flies.
history
The first written mention of the place comes from May 15, 1364, when the Archbishop Jarosław Skotnicki of Gniezno and the Bishop of Poznan Jan Doliwa agreed that the parish Margonin should belong to the diocese of Poznan. 1383 a Theodricus de Margonin is mentioned. In 1402 Margonin received town charter . The city was destroyed in 1655 during the Swedish-Polish War . On July 20, 1696, the town was again granted city rights. In 1725 an orphanage was built. The church was badly damaged in a storm in 1737 and was therefore rebuilt between 1753 and 1755. During the first partition of Poland , the city fell to Prussia in 1773 . At that time it belonged to Count Skorzewski, who was sitting nearby at Castle Margoninsdorf. The manor had jurisdiction and patronage over both the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church, built in 1775 on a hill jutting out into the lake. In 1783 the town consisted of 195 clapboard-roofed houses. In the 19th century, the banker Lessing was owned by the manor.
The time of belonging to Prussia was interrupted from 1807 to 1815 by belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw . Margonin then belonged to the Kolmar i district until 1919 . Poses .
In 1894 the city had a station on the Posen - Neustettin line of the Prussian State Railways with a freight extension. From 1905 the city was illuminated by gas lanterns. In 1908 it was connected to the Gollantsch (Gołańcz) - Kolmar (Chodzież) railway .
After the First World War , Margonin had to be ceded to Poland in 1920 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . On September 5, 1939, the region was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . Margonin was incorporated into the Reichsgau Wartheland , Posen administrative region . Towards the end of the Second World War , Margonin was occupied by the Red Army on January 22, 1945 after fighting and was again Polish.
During an administrative reform, the city came to the newly formed Piła Voivodeship in 1975 . This was dissolved in 1998 and the city became part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Population numbers
- 1783: 1,347, including 222 Jews (the remaining roughly half Protestant Germans and half Poles)
- 1788: 1,257, including 232 Jews
- 1816: 1,649, including 701 Protestants, 565 Catholics and 383 Jews
- 1837: 1.765
- 1861: 2.207
- 1885: 1,824, including 779 Protestants, 913 Catholics and 132 Jews
- 2014: 3,020
Culture and sport
Buildings
- the church of Adalbert of Prague (św. Wojciecha) from the 17th century, rebuilt 1753–1755
- the neo-Gothic palace, built 1842–1852
- the Lindenallee, laid out in 1765
- the market square with buildings from the 19th century
Sports
There is a football club called Klub Sportowy “Leśnik” Margonin .
local community
The town itself and 11 villages with school administration offices belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Margonin.
traffic
The city is crossed by the 190 and 193 Voivodeship Roads. The city of Szamocin is about seven kilometers north. The Poznań-Ławica Airport is about 65 kilometers south of Margonin. The Bydgoszcz airport is located about 60 kilometers east of Margonin. The nearest train stations are in Chodzież , approx. 14 kilometers west of Margonin, in Gołańcz , approx. 14 kilometers east of Margonin and in Białośliwie , approx. 14 kilometers north of Margonin.
Personalities
- Adam z Wągrowca († 1629) organist, composer and monk
- Joseph Schocken (1872–1934), department store owner
- Simon Schocken (1874–1929), department store owner
- Salman Schocken (1877–1959), department store owner
- Elsbeth Borchart (1878–?), Writer
- Isidor Aschheim (1891–1968), German-Israeli painter and graphic artist
- Victor Aronstein (1896–1945), doctor
- Krystyna Miłobędzka (* 1932), poet.
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. 365-367 .
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789 (reprint: Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, Hamburg 1991), pp. 102-103.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the state of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, pp. 365-367 .
- ^ A b c Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789 (reprint: Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, Hamburg 1991), pp. 102-103.
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_kolmar.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).