Lubusz Voivodeship

Lubusz
Voivodeship

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Coat of arms and logo

Basic data

Seat of the voivod: Gorzów Wielkopolski (Landsberg on the Warta)

Seat of Parliament: Zielona Góra (Grünberg)

Voivode : Jerzy Ostrouch

Voivodeship Marshal : Elżbieta Polak

Biggest town: Zielona Góra (Grünberg)

ISO 3166-2 : PL-08

Residents : 1,013,031 (June 30, 2019)

Population density : 72 inhabitants per km²

Unemployment rate : 15.9% (December 2009)

License plate : F.

geography

Area : 13,988 km²

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- of which water: ? km²

Expansion: North-South: up to 171 km
West-East: up to 124 km

The highest point: 227 m

Deepest point: ? m

Landscape structure

Forests: 49.4%

Waters: ? %

Agriculture: 36.6%

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Administrative division

Independent cities : 2

Counties : 12

Municipalities : 82

The Lubusz Voivodeship ( Polish województwo lubuskie ) is one of the 16 voivodeships into which the Republic of Poland is divided. It borders in the west on the German states of Brandenburg and Saxony , in the east on Greater Poland and essentially comprises the former Brandenburg Neumark (Ostbrandenburg) as well as small parts of the northern Lower Silesia , the eastern Lower Lusatia and parts of the former border march Posen-West Prussia . The capitals of the voivodeship are Gorzów Wielkopolski (Landsberg an der Warthe) as the seat of the voivode appointed by the central government , who is responsible for the administration of the finances allocated centrally from Warsaw, for the interior department and the police, and Zielona Góra (Grünberg) as the seat of the Voivodeship Marshal, his government and parliament (Sejmik) .

history

The naming of the province refers to the historical, both sides of the Oder preferred country Lebus . The city of Lebus is located on the western bank of the Oder in Germany and was the seat of Polish princes and bishops from the time it was taken over by Bolesław Chrobry until the middle of the 13th century. After that, most of today's voivodeship belonged to the Mark Brandenburg until 1945 . The voivodship was created in 1999 as part of the administrative reform from the union of the voivodeships Gorzów Wielkopolski (Landsberg an der Warthe) , Zielona Góra (Grünberg) and a small part of the Leszno (Lissa) voivodeship .

coat of arms

Description : Split in red and green, at the front of the split a gold-crowned, gold-framed and reinforced silver eagle covered with golden clover stems and at the back two golden six-pointed stars on stakes .

Administrative division

The Lubusz Voivodeship is divided into twelve administrative districts, with the provincial capitals Gorzów Wielkopolski (Gorzów Wlkp.) And Zielona Góra remaining independent. They themselves do not belong to the districts named after them.

One district cities

Gorzów Wielkopolski (Landsberg ad Warthe) 123,691; 86 km²
Zielona Góra (Grünberg) 140,874; 58 km²

Counties

Gorzów Wlkp. (Landsberg) 71,669; 1214 km²
Krosno Odrzańskie (Crossen ad Oder) 55,018; 1391 km²
Międzyrzecz (Meseritz) 57,851; 1388 km²
Nowa Sól (Neusalz ad Oder) 86,384; 771 km²

Słubice (Frankfurt-Dammvorstadt) 47,018; 999 km²
Strzelce-Drezdenko (Friedeberg / Driesen) 49,156; 1248 km²
Sulęcin (Zielenzig) 35,238; 1178 km²
Świebodzin (Schwiebus) 55,753; 937 km²

Wschowa (Fraustadt) 38,960; 624 km²
Zielona Góra (Grünberg) 75,626; 1569 km²
Żagań (Sagan) 79,297; 1132 km²
Żary (Sorau) 96,496; 1393 km²

(Population and area on June 30, 2019)

Counties	Greatest	Smallest
area-wise	Powiat Zielonogórski	Powiat Wschowski
in terms of population	Powiat Żarski	Powiat Sulęciński

geography

Biggest cities

The two cities of Zielona Góra and Gorzów are the only large cities in Lebus with around 140,000 and 120,000 inhabitants respectively. The following cities have just a third of this population.

city	German name	Residents June 30, 2019
Zielona Góra	Grünberg in Silesia	140.874
Gorzów Wielkopolski	Landsberg on the Warta	123.691
Nowa Sól	New salt on the Oder	38,763
Żary	Sorau	37.502
Żagań	Sagan	25,731
Świebodzin	Schwiebus	21,736
Międzyrzecz	Meseritz	17,994
Kostrzyn nad Odrą	Küstrin	17,778
Sulechów	Züllichau	16,831
Slubice	Frankfurt-Dammvorstadt	16,705
Gubin	Guben	16,619

Neighboring voivodeships

	West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Brandenburg Germany		Greater Poland Voivodeship
Saxony Germany	Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Rivers

The area of the voivodeship belongs entirely to the Oder catchment area.

Odra (Or)
- Warta (Warta)
  - Noteć (networks)
- Ilanka (Eilang)
- Pliszka (Pleiske)
- Nysa Łużycka (Lusatian Neisse)
  - Lubsza (Lubst)
- Bóbr (Bober)

economy

In comparison with the gross domestic product of the European Union in terms of purchasing power standards , the voivodeship achieved an index of 57 in 2015 (EU-28 = 100). The unemployment rate in 2004 was 23.2%. By December 2009 it had dropped to 15.9 percent.

With a value of 0.820, Lebus ranks 15th among the 16 Voivodships in Poland in the Human Development Index .

traffic

shipping

Inland waterways:

Or,
Warta,
Networks,
Lusatian Neisse from Guben .

railroad

The railway lines Berlin - Warsaw , Szczecin - Wrocław and Szczecin - Poznań run through the voivodeship . The former Prussian Eastern Railway is only of regional importance in the route Kostrzyn nad Odrą - Gorzów Wielkopolski - Krzyż Wielkopolski .

The railway network is 985 kilometers long, 329 kilometers of which are electrified.

Street

The main traffic axis of the voivodeship, to which the two capitals are connected, is the European route 65 (Polish national route 3 ), which connects Scandinavia with Southeastern Europe .

The important European route 30 (Polish state road 2 ) runs right through the middle of the voivodeship from Cork in the Republic of Ireland via Great Britain , the Netherlands and Germany (including Berlin ) to Warsaw and Eastern Europe ( Minsk - Moscow ), to which neither of the two largest cities is directly connected . The city of Świebodzin is the most important traffic junction in the region, where the two European highways cross.