Wartoslaw
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Greater Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Szamotuły | ||
| Gmina : | Gmina Wronki | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 43 ' N , 16 ° 17' E | ||
| Residents : | 303 (December 31, 2014) | ||
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| Street : | Ext. 143 | ||
Wartosław (formerly Nowymost ; German Neubrück ) is a former town in the urban and rural municipality of Wronki in Poland . The village with about 300 inhabitants is located in the powiat Szamotulski of the Greater Poland Voivodeship .
geography
The village is located about 50 km northwest of Poznan and six kilometers west of Wronki on the left bank of the Warta . In the north there is the large coniferous forest area of the Puszcza Notecka along the nets (in Polish: Noteć) .
history
The city was founded in 1781 as a commercial settlement in the area of the village of Biezdrowo by the Starost of Babimost . At that time a wooden bridge spanned the Warta. The new foundation became a center for cloth-making, there were also three windmills, two brickworks, a tannery and soap manufacture, a total of twenty factories . A glassworks was built near Aleksandrowo . By 1793 the city had grown to 579 inhabitants. After the annexation by Prussia in the course of the second Polish partition in 1793 , the importance of the city declined. In particular, the cloth deliveries to Russia were made more difficult by customs duties. It had 410 inhabitants in 1811 and lost its town charter in the middle of the 19th century.
In 1885 the place had 692 inhabitants, 358 were Protestants, 317 were Roman Catholics and 17 were Jews. In 1910 there were only 593 inhabitants. In 1920 Wartosław came back to the Second Polish Republic . From 1975 to 1998 the region was part of the Piła Voivodeship .
Wartosław is now the Schulzenamt of Gmina Wronki. Sołtys has been Witold Waroś since 2015. The district of Wartosław-Huby belongs to the place . After the burial ground was discovered, the village was advertised as a “village of four cultures” (wieś czterech culture) .
Attractions
- Late baroque church pw Świętej Trójcy i św. Łukasza from 1785 with a classical altar, today used as a cemetery chapel
- 61 houses from the 19th century
- Neo-Gothic rectory
Cultural monuments
- Neo-Gothic church pw Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa , built as a Protestant church in 1854.
- Remains of a fortified settlement from the 9th / 10th centuries. century
Burial ground
In 2008, a large burial ground of the Lausitz culture (1100–650 BC) was discovered near Wartosław .
Church built in 1854
Main Street (1994)
Ferry over the Control Room (2012)
traffic
The Droga wojewódzka 143 leads through the town. A small ferry crosses the Warta. The nearest train station is in Wronki.
Web links
- Wartosław on the website of Gmina Wronki (Polish)
- Wartosław al. Nowymost . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 13 : Warmbrun – Worowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1893, p. 118 (Polish, edu.pl ).
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. 384.