Podgórz (Toruń)

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Podgórz ( German Podgórz , 1942-1945 Amberg ) is a district of the city of Toruń ( Thorn ) in the Polish province Kujawy .

Geographical location

Podgórz is located in the Kulmerland in the historical region of West Prussia , south of the city center of Thorn, near the opposite southern bank of the Vistula .

history

Pogorz in Kulmerland in West Prussia , south of Thorn and southeast of Bromberg , on a map from 1908

Podgórz is the old Nessau, which was located around the Ordensburg Nessau, later Dybow Castle , and, after the Kulmerland and the Prussian Confederation voluntarily submitted to the protective power of the Kingdom of Poland , due to one of Casimir IV Andreas The promise given to the city of Thorn was broken off and rebuilt in a place further south and a little further from the Vistula, today's Nieszawa ( Nessau ). The relocation of Nessau was preceded by complaints from the city of Thorn about trade disruptions. The city of Podgórz then belonged to the Starostei Dybow.

During the second division of Poland in 1793, the city came to Prussia and initially belonged to the Bromberg department. During the French period 1807-1815 it was incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw . In 1813 the city was burned down by the French to facilitate the defense of the city of Thorn.

In 1815 Podgorz became part of the Thorn district in the province of West Prussia , to which the city belonged until the end of the First World War . At the beginning of the 20th century Podgorz had a new Protestant and a Catholic church.

After the end of the First World War , Podgorz had to be ceded to Poland due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty in 1920 for the purpose of establishing the Polish Corridor .

After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the territory of the Polish Corridor was annexed as Reich territory and Podgorz, together with the Thorn district, was assigned to the Bromberg administrative district in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , to which the city belonged until 1945.

Towards the end of World War II , the Red Army occupied the region in January 1945 . Unless the German residents had fled, they were expelled from Podgorz by the local Polish administrative authorities in the following period .

The village is now part of Toruń ( Thorn ).

  • Town hall, built in 1907

  • Catholic parish church, built in 1644

  • Old half-timbered houses

  • Dybow Castle (former Ordensburg Nessau)

Demographics

Population development until 1920
year Residents Remarks
1802 0348
1816 0275 including eight Evangelicals, 225 Catholics and 42 Jews
1821 0365
1831 0533 mostly Catholics
1852 0627
1864 0872 422 Protestants and 389 Catholics
1871 0880 half evangelical
1890 2489
1905 3618 1200 Catholics and 100 Jews
1910 3637 on December 1st

literature

  • August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore . Königsberg 1835, p. 416, No. 31, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
  • Georg Maximilian Franz von Steinmann: The district of Thorn - statistical description. Lambeck, Thorn 1866, pp. 261–262, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
  • Hans Maercker: History of the rural villages and the three smaller towns in the Thorn district in its earlier expansion before the Briesen district branched off in 1888 . Bertling, Danzig 1899/1900, pp. 151-153 .

Web links

Commons : Podgórz (Toruń)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Maximilian Franz von Steinmann: The district of Thorn - statistical description. Lambeck, Thorn 1866, pp. 261–262, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  2. ↑ a b Podgorz . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  58 .
  3. ^ A b c Alexander August Mützell, Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 5: T – Z , Halle 1823, pp. 354–355. Item 541.
  4. ^ August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore . Königsberg 1835, p. 416. No. 31.
  5. ^ Kraatz: Topographical-statistical manual of the Prussian state . Berlin 1856, p. 453.
  6. ^ E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the district of Marienwerder , Danzig 1868, pp. 212-213, no. 193, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
  7. ^ Gustav Neumann: Geography of the Prussian State . Volume 2. 2nd edition. Berlin 1874, pp. 51-52, paragraph 6.
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dan_thorn.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 59 '  N , 18 ° 35'  E