Sieraków

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Sieraków
Sieraków Coat of Arms
Sieraków (Poland)
Sieraków
Sieraków
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Greater Poland
Powiat : Międzychodzki
Gmina : Sieraków
Area : 14.08  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 39 '  N , 16 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '56 "  N , 16 ° 4' 53"  E
Height : 31 m npm
Residents : 6031 (June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 64-410
Telephone code : (+48) 61
License plate : PMI



Sieraków ( German Zirke ) is a city in the powiat Międzychodzki of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 8,741 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

Geographical location

The city is located in the historical region of Poznan on the Warta , about 65 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the city of Poznan .

history

Warthe bridge near the city
monastery

Zirke already had city rights in the first half of the 15th century; In 1458 the city had to provide six equipped soldiers to the army. Around and before 1524 there was a royal customs office here. Zirke was a noble city that also included a manor; at the end of the 18th century the town was owned by Count Lukas von Bninski. In the city there was a Protestant parish church, a Catholic parish church, a Franciscan monastery with a monastery church and a synagogue .

In the 19th century there were a number of commercial operations in Zirke, and the city had a train station with a freight extension of the Meseritz - Rokietnice line of the Prussian State Railways . In Zirke there was a state stud, a chief forester's office and lignite mines. In 1919, the Royal Prussian had Posen'sche State Stud in the "Friedrich-Wilhelm-stud" to Neustadt (Dosse) to be evacuated, as the province of Posen after the Poznan uprising (1918-1919) and the ultimate demands of the Versailles Treaty in large part the Second Polish Republic fell.

Since 1939, Zirke was again part of the Posen administrative district in the 1941 newly formed district of Birnbaum (Wartheland) , Reichsgau Wartheland . Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army and came back to Poland.

Population development until 1921
year population Remarks
1800 1,206 including 253 Jews
1837 1908
1861 2514
1867 2536 on December 3rd
1871 2527 including 1180 Evangelicals, 1140 Catholics and 200 Jews (1130 Poles ); according to other data 2527 inhabitants, of which 1179 Protestants, 1169 Catholics, 179 Jews
1875 2542
1880 2944
1890 2926 including 1244 Protestants, 1538 Catholics and 55 Jews
1905 3024 including 1133 Evangelicals and 55 Jews
1910 3216 on December 1st
Number of inhabitants after the Second World War
year population Remarks
2014 6108
2019 6031 End of June 2019

local community

The town-and-country municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Sieraków includes the town itself and 15 villages with school authorities and other localities.

Personalities

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. 472.

Web links

Commons : Sieraków  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Heinrich Wuttke : City book of the country of Posen. Codex diplomaticus: General history of the cities in the region of Poznan. Historical news from 149 individual cities . Leipzig 1864, p. 472.
  2. ^ A b Karl Joseph Huebner: Historical-statistical-topographical description of South Prussia and New East Prussia . Volume 1, Leipzig 1798, pp. 436-437.
  3. ^ A. Bäck: The province or the Grand Duchy of Poznan in geographical, statistical and topographical relation . Posen, Berlin and Bromberg 1847, p. 134.
  4. ^ A b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_birnbaum.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ a b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 20, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 954.
  6. ↑ See Zeitschrift für Ostforschung , Volume 34, J.- G.- Herder-Institut (Hrsg.), 1985, S. 222 and Friedrich Freiherr von Senden: History of Freiherrn von Senden and Freiherrn Schuler von Senden , ISBN 978-3 -86805-376-0 , Pro Business, Berlin 2009, p. 227
  7. ^ A b Royal Statistical Office: 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. 84–85, item 5 ( E-Copy, pp . 91-92 ).
  8. ^ Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State. 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, p. 143, item 1.
  9. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de