Mrocza

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Mrocza
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Mrocza (Poland)
Mrocza
Mrocza
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Kuyavian Pomeranian
Powiat : Nakielski
Gmina : Mrocza
Area : 4.32  km²
Geographic location : 53 ° 15 '  N , 17 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '33 "  N , 17 ° 35' 56"  E
Residents : 4394 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 89-115
Telephone code : (+48) 52
License plate : CNA



Mrocza [ 'mrɔʈ͡ʂa ] ( German Mrotschen , 1939–1942 Schönhausen , 1942–1945 Immenheim ) is a town in the powiat Nakielski of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 9,300 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The city is located in the historic region of Poznan on the Rokitka, about twelve kilometers north of Nakel and 31 kilometers west-northwest of Bromberg .

history

Mrotschen an der Rokitka southeast of the Großer Wieler See on a map from 1914
Marketplace
City Church

In documents the place was a village until 1392, is in 1288 Mroscha and 1393 Mroscza called.

During the first partition of Poland in 1772, the village became part of Prussia . From 1816 to 1920 it belonged to the district of Wirsitz in the administrative district of Bromberg in the Prussian province of Posen .

Towards the end of the first quarter of the 19th century, the agricultural town had a Catholic church, a Protestant prayer house, a synagogue and a royal domain office, 140 houses and around six hundred inhabitants.

After the First World War , the district had to be ceded to the Second Polish Republic due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Mrotschen was once again incorporated into the German Empire .

After the end of World War II in 1945, the place came back to Poland. From 1975–1998 the city was administratively part of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship . Since then it has belonged to the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Population development until 1922
year population Remarks
1788 655
1802 838
1816 748 thereof 346 Catholics, 238 Evangelicals and 164 Jews; according to other data, 839 inhabitants thereof 347 Protestants, 359 Catholics, 133 Jews
1821 964 in 112 private houses
1837 808
1843 1231
1858 1377
1861 1529
1867 1674
1871 1640 650 Protestants, 730 Catholics and 230 Jews (710 Poles ); According to other data, 1637 inhabitants (on December 1), of which 727 are Protestants, 697 Catholics and 213 Jews
1885 1809 including 828 Protestants, 817 Catholics and 164 Jews
1905 2427 1008 Protestants and 156 Jews
1910 579 on December 1st, excluding the Mrotschen manor with 510 inhabitants

local community

The town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Mrocza includes the town and 15 villages with school boards.

Parish partnership

The partner municipality is Lindern in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony.

traffic

Mrocza had a train station on the Oleśnica – Chojnice railway line .

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, p. 381.

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. Cf. Weblink District Immenheim-Land in Danzig-West Prussia - community renaming
  2. 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, p. 381.
  3. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III . Volume 2, part 1, Berlin 1828, p. 122, no. 4).
  4. a b c Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 5: T – Z , Halle 1823, pp. 336-343, item 454 .
  5. Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 3: Kr – O , Halle 1822, p. 222, item 2643 .
  6. a b Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Part IV: The Province of Posen , Berlin 1874, pp. 158–159 ( e-copy, pp. 165-166 ).
  7. ^ Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 158, point 2.
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_wirsitz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 14, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 205 .
  10. https://gemeindeververzeichnis.de