Szamocin
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Chodzieski | ||
| Gmina : | Szamocin | ||
| Area : | 4.67 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 1 ' N , 17 ° 7' E | ||
| Residents : | 4223 (June 30, 2019) | ||
| Postal code : | 64-820 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 67 | ||
| License plate : | PCH | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Wągrowiec - Złotów | ||
| Next international airport : | Bydgoszcz Airport | ||
Szamocin ( German Samotschin , 1943–1945 Fritzenstadt ) is a city in Poland in the Greater Poland Voivodeship . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 7520 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
history
The first written mention of a settlement on the site of today's Szamocin called Szamoczino comes from 1364. In the 17th century the landlords of the village came from the Unruh family . Municipal law as a possession of the family Bętkowski received Szamocin 1748 by Augustus III. awarded. Two years later the town passed into the hands of the Raczyński family .
During the first partition of Poland , the city fell to Prussia in 1773 . Before 1789 the town was owned by the province governor of Mielzinski. In the 19th century, a banker Lessing owned the town. With the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, the city became part of it. In 1815 the Warsaw Duchy was dissolved and the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen was founded, to which Samotschin belonged from then on.
In the 18th century the weaving trade had developed into an important economic factor in the city; up to 62 weaving mills produced in the city. Under Count Edward Raczyński , the town was expanded in the 18th century and, for example, the second market , now plac Wolności , was created. When a steam engine went into operation in 1831 , it was the first in the Poznan Province . A great fire destroyed large parts of the city in 1840. This was also the beginning of the decline of the textile industry. The connection to the rail network of the Prussian State Railways from Kolmar i. Posen after Gollantsch took place in 1908. Samotschin had two churches and a synagogue .
After the First World War , the city had to be ceded to the Second Polish Republic in 1921 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . On September 1, 1939, the German Wehrmacht occupied the city. This was then incorporated into the Kolmar district in Posen in the Reichsgau Wartheland of the German Empire . Towards the end of the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the city on January 22, 1945 . The remaining German residents were expelled .
After an administrative reform, the city was part of the newly formed Piła Voivodeship from 1975 . Since its dissolution in 1999, Szamocin has been part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Population numbers
- 1783: 652, including 101 Poles and 18 Jews, the rest Protestant Germans
- 1788: 738
- 1816: 1,121, including 827 Protestants, 196 Catholics and 98 Jews
- 1837: 1.814
- 1861: 2.196
- 1880: 2.167
local community
The city and country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Szamocin includes the city itself and 11 villages with school authorities.
partnership
The Szamocin municipality maintains a partnership with the Grasberg municipality in Germany.
Culture and sights
- the parish church from the beginning of the 20th century
- the St. Peter and Paul Church ( kościół pw. Św. Piotra i Pawła ) from the 19th century
- a granary from the beginning of the 19th century
- Draper houses on Hallera Street
traffic
The Poznań-Ławica Airport is the nearest international airport, located about 70 kilometers south of the town.
Voivodship streets 190 and 191 intersect in the city.
Personalities
- Ernst Toller (1893–1939), politician and writer
- Bartosz Ślusarski (* 1981), football player
- Radosław Cierzniak (born 1983), footballer.
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. 430 .
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part II: Topography of West Prussia , Marienwerder 1789, (p. 103, no.11)
- Hans Schmidt: The history of Germanness in Szamocin (Samotschin) and the surrounding area . Publishing House Historical Society for Poznan, Poznan 1939.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 430 .
- ^ A b Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part II: Topography of West Prussia , Marienwerder 1789, (p. 103, no.11)
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pos_kolmar.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).