Toporów (Łagów)

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Toporów
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Toporów (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lebus
Gmina : Łagów
Geographic location : 52 ° 16 '  N , 15 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '55 "  N , 15 ° 15' 35"  E
Residents : 807 (2002)
Postal code : 66-200
Telephone code : (+48) 683411
License plate : FSW
Economy and Transport
Street : E 30 Berlin – Warsaw
Rail route : Berlin – Warsaw (E20)
Next international airport : Poznan-Ławica



Toporów (German Topper ) is a village in the Polish Lubusz Voivodeship . The village is located near the tourist resort of Łagów ( Lagow ) to whose rural municipality it belongs.

Geographical location

Topper, west of the city of Posen , southwest of the city of Meseritz and south of the village of Lagow am Lagowsee, on a map of the province of Poznan from 1905
Village church, until 1946 the Protestant community
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Topper map from 1905

The village is located in Niederlausitz on a high plateau, about eight kilometers south of the village of Lagow , 19 kilometers west of Świebodzin ( Schwiebus ), 40 kilometers northwest of Zielona Góra ( Grünberg ) and 52 kilometers south of Gorzów Wielkopolski ( Landsberg an der Warthe ). To the north of the village runs a ridge to the Hohen Spiegelberg.

history

The Topper manor was sold in 1558 or 1575 at a price in the order of four thousand marks from the Chancellor of the Order of St. John in Sonnenburg to Christoph v. Zabeltitz has been sold. In the 17th century the manor district was divided into two parts: The Afterlehen Topper I, which comprised 1/3 of the total area of ​​the manor district, remained in the possession of the family for three centuries, who wrote their name here Zobeltitz ; The landowner around the middle of the 19th century was Ernst v. Sable seat.

Topper II, to which 2/3 of the total area belonged, was first owned by the Dohna family , then it belonged to Sigismund v. Knobelsdorff , who still owned it in 1644. In the 18th century his descendants were on toppers. Two Knobelsdorff brothers sold Topper II in 1817 for 40,000 marks to Carl Rissmann, who was still the owner around the middle of the 19th century. In 1864 and 1871, the Judicial Council named as landowner Krause. From 1874 to 1886 it was owned by the Prussian Field Marshal Edwin von Manteuffel .

Until 1945, the village of Topper was in the district of Crossen , administrative district of Frankfurt , in the Prussian province of Brandenburg in the German Empire .

At the end of the Second World War , Topper was occupied by the Red Army . After the end of the war, Topper and other areas east of the Oder-Neisse line were placed under Polish administration. The immigration of Polish migrants began, some of whom came from areas east of the Curzon Line that had been conquered by Poland after the First World War . The German village of Topper was renamed Toporów . Unless the local residents of Topper had fled, they were subsequently evicted by the local Polish administrative authorities .

Demographics

Number of inhabitants
year population Remarks
1840 338 in 55 residential buildings.
1852 684 in the village
1864 575 in 63 residential buildings
1867 920 on December 3, of which 502 in the village and 418 in the estate district (159 on Topper II, 174 on Topper I, 85 in Vorwerk Topper-Grunewald), mostly Protestants
1871 938 on December 1, of which 468 in the village (464 Evangelicals, four Catholics) and 470 in the estate district (162 on Topper II, including three Catholics; 228 on Topper I, including two Catholics and five Jews; 80 in Vorwerk Topper-Grunewald, all Protestant)
1910 812 on December 1st, of which 639 in the village, 236 at Gut Topper, 37 at Vorwerk Topper-Grunewald
1933 919
1939 956

Parish

The evangelical villagers visited their own village church until 1946, which was a branch of the parish church in the neighboring village of Spiegelberg .

Attractions

  • Village church, built before 1518
  • Jagdschloss, the main building was built in 1823 and is a historic building that is a listed building.
  • Peter oak

traffic

Driveway

The village has its own train station. There are train connections with the PKP to Zbąszynek ( Bentschen ) and Posen in the east and Frankfurt (Oder) in the west.

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Margraviate Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century . Volume 3, 1st edition, Brandenburg 1856, p. 753 ( online ).

Web link

Commons : Toporów, Lubusz Voivodeship  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Dienemann : Messages from the Order of St. John , Berlin 1767, p. 18 ( online )
  2. Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Frankfurt ad O. Gustav Harnecker's bookstore, Frankfurt a. O. 1844, p. 61, no. 205 ( online ).
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Mark Brandenburg and the Margraviate Nieder-Lausitz in the middle of the 19th century . Volume 3, 1st edition, Brandenburg 1856, p. 753 ( online ).
  4. Topographical-statistical manual of the government district of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag von Gustav Harnecker u. Co., 1867, p. 66, No. 188 (on- line ).
  5. a b Royal Statistical Bureau: The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . Part II: Province of Brandenburg , Berlin 1873, pp. 182-183, no. 99 ( online ), and pp. 184-185, no. 149, no. 150 and No. 151 ( online ).
  6. www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de .
  7. a b M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)