Mogilno
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Mogileński | ||
| Gmina : | Mogilno | ||
| Area : | 8.32 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 39 ′ N , 17 ° 57 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 98 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 12,155 (Dec. 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 88-300 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 52 | ||
| License plate : | CMG | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Rail route : | Poznan – Thorn | ||
| Next international airport : | Poznań-Ławica | ||
Mogilno [ mɔˈɟilnɔ ] is a town in the Polish Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and is located on the lake of the same name about 30 km northeast of Gniezno ( Gniezno ). Mogilno is the seat of the Powiat Mogileński and the town-and-country municipality of the same name with almost 25,000 inhabitants.
history
The place goes back to a settlement that was built in the 8th / 9th centuries. It was built in the 16th century on a hill near the lake. The Mogilno Monastery , a Benedictine abbey, was founded here in the 11th century . In 1398 the place received the Magdeburg city charter from King Władysław II Jagiełło bestowed. In the first partition of Poland , Mogilno also came to Prussia , where it remained until 1919. In 1773 the monks' ownership of the place ended. 1818 was county Mogilno , Posen set up, which was dissolved in 1975, but was re-established as part of the administrative reform 1,999th
Mogilno Post Office
District Police Headquarters
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local community
The town-and-country municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Mogilno includes the town and 31 villages with school authorities.
Partnerships
- Brody , Ukraine since 2008
- Engelskirchen , Germany since 2012
traffic
The city is on the Poznań – Toruń railway line . In Mogilno there used to be lines to Barcin (with a train station in the Wszedzień part of the municipality), to Inowrocław (with train stations in the Szczeglin and Kunowo parts of the municipality) and to Orchowo (with stations in the Kwieciszewo, Gębice and Procyń parts of the municipality).
Personalities
- Viktor Kühne (1857–1945), General of the Artillery
- Walter Wreszinski (1880–1935), Egyptologist, professor in Königsberg
- Kurt Lewin (1890–1947), pioneer of psychology, especially social psychology
- Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), engineer, chemist and professor
- Krzysztof Kłosowski (* 1975), politician and entrepreneur.
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. 379-380 .
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789, p. 93, no.5).
