Więcbork
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Sępoleński | ||
| Gmina : | Więcbork | ||
| Area : | 4.31 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 21 ' N , 17 ° 30' E | ||
| Residents : | 5970 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 89-410 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 52 | ||
| License plate : | CSE | ||
Więcbork ( German Vandsburg ) is a city in the powiat Sępoleński of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 13,350 inhabitants.
Geographical location
Więcbork is located in West Prussia , about 30 kilometers east of Złotów ( Flatow ), 35 kilometers south of Chojnice ( Konitz ) and 40 kilometers northwest of Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ). A lake borders the residential area of the city.
history
The city, which was a railway junction, was until after the end of World War I to the rural county Flatow in West Prussia . When the Versailles Treaty came into force on January 10, 1920, the eastern part of the Flatow district with the cities of Vandsburg, Zempelburg and Cammin i. West Prussia was annexed to the Polish state without a vote (the German population in this eastern part was around 72%). This eastern part later formed the new Polish district of Sępolno / Zempelburg , to which Vandsburg has belonged since 1939 to 1945, except for the interruption associated with the Second World War .
Main shopping street
Sports arena
The city from a bird's eye view.
Population development
| year | number | Remarks |
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| 1783 | 489 | half Protestant, the other half Catholics |
| 1805 | 640 | no jews |
| 1853 | 1,586 | 981 Protestants, 351 Catholics and 254 Jews |
| 1905 | 2,836 | mostly evangelicals |
| 2012 | approx. 6,000 |
Religions
The population present in Vandsburg until the end of World War I was predominantly Protestant. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century there were two Protestant churches in Vandsburg, a Protestant deaconess motherhouse of the DGD , a Catholic church and a synagogue .
The Vandsburg deaconesses moved their mother house to Elbingerode (Harz) in 1921 .
traffic
The city had a train station on the Oleśnica – Chojnice railway lines (another former station in the district of Runowo Krajeńskie) and Świecie nad Wisła – Złotów (other former stops in Dorotowo, Pęperzyn , Sypniewo and Zakrzewek).
local community
The city and country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Więcbork includes the city itself and 21 villages with school authorities.
sons and daughters of the town
- Anna Krüger (1904–1991), literary scholar and university lecturer
- Heinrich Borriss (1909–1985), botanist and university professor, director of the Botanical Institute at the University of Greifswald
- Sławomir Zawada (* 1965), Polish weightlifter
- Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (* 1968), Polish clergyman, archbishop and diplomat
literature
- Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete Topography of the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume 2, Marienwerder 1789, Part I, p. 100, No. 6.)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmitt : Topography of the Flatower circle . In: Preußische Provinzialblätter , Other Series, Vol. VII, Königsberg 1855, pp. 45–46.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmitt : The Flatow district. In all of his relationships . Thorm 1867, pp. 254-257.
- Goerke, Otto: The Flatow district. Represented in geographical, natural history and historical relation. [1. Edition: 1918] 2nd edition, Gifhorn 1981, with a supplement about the period from 1918 to 1945 by Manfred Vollack (902 pages, 113 illustrations and seven maps).
- Mathias Niendorf: Minorities on the border - Germans and Poles in the Flatow (Złotów) and Zempelburg (Sępólno Krajeńskie) districts 1900–1939 (dissertation, University of Kiel 1996). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03917-5 . ( limited preview )
Web links
- William Remus: Vandsburg (Więcbork), Flatow County, West Prussia (2007) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Bahr: Brief history of the Flatower country . In: Home book for the Flatow district - Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia - Province of Pomerania . Published by the home district committee for the Flatow district with the support of the Gifhorn sponsorship group. Print: Karl Neef oHG (Wittingen), Gifhorn 1971, pp. 37–42.
- ↑ Goldbeck (1789), Part I, p. 100, No. 6.)
- ^ A b F. WF Schmitt: Topography of the Flatower circle . In: Preußische Provinzialblätter , Other Series, Volume VII, Königsberg 1855, pp. 45–46 and p. 116.
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition, 1909.