Mielżyn
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Gnieźnieński | ||
| Gmina : | Witkowo | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 23 ' N , 17 ° 46' E | ||
| Residents : | 660 (2005) | ||
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| Street : | DW260 Gniezno - Słupca | ||
Mielżyn ( German Mieltschin ) is a village and former town in the powiat Gnieźnieński of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . The place with about 660 inhabitants belongs to the urban and rural municipality Witkowo . City rights were granted and revoked twice.
history
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The first written mention comes from the year 1373. The town charter was granted to the place in the year 1533. Mielżyn was devastated by the “ Swedish Flood ” in 1655. Due to the loss of importance, the town charter was revoked in 1717, which it was given again in 1764. During the second partition of Poland in 1793, the city came to the province of South Prussia . In 1807 it was added to the Duchy of Warsaw . After its dissolution, Mieltschin came back to Prussia. The city first belonged to the Gnesen district and then to the Witkowo district, founded in 1887 in the Bydgoszcz administrative district of the Poznan province . In 1905 the city had 457 inhabitants and city rights were permanently revoked three years later.
In 1920 the province of Poznan fell to Poland . In Berlin-Kaulsdorf , Mieltschiner Straße was named after the place on November 9, 1926 . In September 1939, the region was captured by the German Wehrmacht after the attack on Poland . On September 15, 1939, 15 residents were murdered by the German occupying forces . The community was renamed in 1939–43 in Möllen and in 1943–45 in Mielen . In January 1945 the Red Army invaded and Mielżyn became part of Poland again.
Architectural monuments
- The All Saints Church was built in the late 16th century and expanded to a cross shape in 1985. The furnishings date from the 16th and 18th centuries.
- Classicist mansion from the 19th century
The spacious, former market square is now a lawn. Another church from the early 17th century was demolished in 1840.
traffic
Since 1896, the city was a train station on the former Witkowo / Gnieźnieńska Kolej Powiatowa (since 1920) / Gnesener Kreisbahn (1939-1945), a narrow-gauge railway that did not cease to operate until the 21st century.
Personalities
- The noble Mielżyński family is named after this place .
- Władysław Chotkowski (1865–1910), Polish church historian and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Paul Ludwig Kowalczewski (1865–1910), German sculptor.
Web links
- Mielżyn . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 349 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- Mielżyn 1 . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 2: Januszpol – Wola Justowska . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1902, p. 327 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Krzysztofik: Lokacje miejskie na obszarze Polski. Dokumentacja geograficzno-historyczna. Katowice 2007. pp. 50f.
- ↑ Entries as objects in the Polish cultural objects register no. 378 from November 25, 1968 and no. 338/80 from May 21, 1984 in the list of monuments of the Voivodeship Office for Monument Preservation