Powiat Policki

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Powiat Policki
Coat of arms of Powiat Policki Location of the powiat
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : West Pomerania
County town : Policy
Area : 665 km 2
Residents : 79,967 (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 120 inhabitants / km 2
Degree of urbanization : 52.69%
Telephone code : (+48) 91
License plate : ZPL
Circle structure
Municipalities : -
Urban and rural communities : 2
Rural communities : 2
Starostei (as of 2009)
Starost : Leszek Guździoł
Address: ul.Tanowska 8
72-010 Police
Website : www.powiat.policki.pl

The powiat Policki is a powiat ( German , district ') in the northwest of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship , which is the smallest in the voivodeship in terms of area. In the north it borders on the Stettiner Haff , in the west on the German district of Vorpommern-Greifswald , in the south on the Oder in Pargowo (Pargow), in the east on the city of Stettin , the Oder in Police (Pölitz) and the Polish landscape protection park Lower Oder Valley (Park Krajobrazowy Dolina Dolnej Odry) .

The Powiat Policki is located in what is now the Polish area of ​​historic Western Pomerania . In the parlance of the German population displaced from there after the Second World War , it is also referred to as the Stettiner Zipfel to make it clear that this small part of Western Pomerania never belonged to Western Pomerania, just because it has belonged to Poland since the war.

history

The district area in the Prussian province of Pomerania belonged to the Randow district until 1939 and, after its dissolution, to the Ueckermünde and Greifenhagen districts until 1945 . The city of Pölitz was a district of Stettin from 1939 to 1945.

The forest and water-rich landscape makes the district an important local recreation destination for the population of the city of Szczecin. The immediate vicinity of the city, especially the southern part of the district, has experienced massive suburbanization since 1990 , i.e. the construction of new single-family houses for members of the Szczecin middle class , as well as the construction of large-scale retail facilities . The close proximity to Germany and the good transport connections via the A 11 also ensure strong shopping tourism from Germany.

Communities

Administrative division of the Policki Powiat
District administrator building

The powiat Policki comprises a total of four municipalities: two urban and rural communities (SL) , two rural communities (L) and, like the powiat Białogardzki, has the smallest number of municipalities of all districts in the voivodship.

Neighboring counties

"Green border" with Germany west of Myśliborka
Szczecin Lagoon
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Neighboring communities Powiat Goleniowski
Gollnow
Brandenburg Powiat Gryfiński
Greifenhagen 		Szczecin

Metropolitan area of ​​Szczecin

The powiat has been actively developed since 2012 through cooperation within the metropolitan area of the metropolis of Szczecin as part of a European metropolitan region; the joint development concept was presented in June 2015.

literature

  • Bernd Aischmann: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, excluding the city of Stettin. A historical perspective . 2nd Edition. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935749-89-3 .

Web links

Commons : Powiat Policki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Model project of spatial planning: German-Polish development concept for the cross-border metropolitan region of Szczecin , kooperation-ohne-grenzen.de, accessed on November 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ Development concept for the cross-border metropolitan region of Szczecin from June 8, 2015 (PDF; 2.7 MB)