Strzelno
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Mogileński | ||
| Gmina : | Strzelno | ||
| Area : | 4.46 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 37 ' N , 18 ° 10' E | ||
| Height : | 96 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 5723 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 88-320 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 52 | ||
| License plate : | CMG | ||
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Inowrocław - Konin Włocławek - Poznan |
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| Next international airport : | Poses | ||
Strzelno ( German Strelno , older Strolin ) is a town in the powiat Mogileński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 11,700 inhabitants.
Geographical location
The city belongs to the historical Kujawian landscape and is located about 18 kilometers south of Inowrocław on the Pojezierze Gnieźnieńskie (Gnesen Lake District) , about 90 kilometers east-northeast of Poznan .
history
There is evidence of a settlement for the 11th century. In the 12th century the voivode Piotr Włostowic founded a Church of the Holy Cross there. Perhaps in 1133 - as Jan Długosz states in his chronicle - but more likely at the end of the 12th century the rotunda of St. Prokop built another church, which today is one of the oldest Romanesque buildings in Poland. The place belonged first to the monastery of the Canon Regulars in Trzemeszno , then to the Premonstratensian choir women, who maintained a monastery there (1148-1838). The Holy Trinity Church, consecrated in 1216, was built at that time. In documents the village is mentioned in 1224 Strelina and 1238 and 1308 Strelna . In 1231 Strzelno is referred to as "opidum", so it had town charter .
With the First Partition of Poland , Strzelno fell to Prussia in 1772. In 1837 the monastery was closed. From 1886, Strelno experienced an economic boom as a district town (until 1932), to which the connection to the railway network of the Prussian State Railway in 1892 also contributed. Until 1919 was Strelno administrative headquarters of the district Strelno in the administrative district of Bromberg of Posen in the German Reich .
After the end of the First World War , Strzelno was ceded to the Second Polish Republic after the Poznan Uprising and under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . In 1939 the region was occupied by the German Wehrmacht ; then Strelno was incorporated back into the German Empire. The city became the Reichsgau Wartheland . Numerous Polish citizens were shot during the Second World War ; the bodies were hastily exhumed and cremated in 1944. Towards the end of the Second World War, Strelno was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 and came back to Poland.
Population numbers
- 1788: 835
- 1816: 1,183, including 340 Evangelicals and 74 Jews
- 1843: 2.343
- 1861: 3.188
- 1875: 3,493
- 1880: 4,359
- 1890: 4,176, including 887 Protestants, 2,942 Catholics and 347 Jews (2,600 Poles)
Attractions
- Rotunda of St. Procopius . One of the largest preserved Romanesque churches in Poland. The building was largely cleaned up in 1925 from the various alterations and style changes of the past centuries.
- Holy Trinity Church
local community
The town itself and 36 villages with school boards belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Strzelno.
traffic
Strzelno had a station on the Inowrocław – Mogilno railway line .
Personalities
- Friedrich August Voßberg (1800–1870), numismatist and coin and seal collector
- Albert A. Michelson (1852–1931), American Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Ludwig Jacobowski (1868–1900), poet, writer and publicist
- Burkhardt Leitner (* 1943), designer and entrepreneur
- Stanisław Gądecki (* 1949), Archbishop of Poznan.
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. 456–458.
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume 2: Topography of West Prussia. Marienwerder 1789, pp. 93-94, no. 7.).
Web links
- City website
- Site of the Premonstratensian Order about the monastery. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Otto Dalchow: The cities of the Wartheland. A contribution to the settlement and regional studies of the province of Poznan . Noske, Borna / Leipzig 1910, p. 98.
- ^ A b c d e 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, pp. 456–458.
- ↑ Otto Dalchow: The cities of the Wartheland. A contribution to the settlement and regional studies of the province of Poznan . Noske, Borna / Leipzig 1910, p. 114.
- ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_strelno.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).