Wolsztyn

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Wolsztyn
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Wolsztyn (Poland)
Wolsztyn
Wolsztyn
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Greater Poland
Powiat : Wolsztyn
Gmina : Wolsztyn
Area : 4.78  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 7 ′  N , 16 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 13,107 (June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 64-200
Telephone code : (+48) 68
License plate : PWL
Economy and Transport
Street : Poznan - Zielona Góra
Next international airport : Poznań-Ławica



Wolsztyn ([ ˈvɔlʃtɨn ], German Wollstein ) is a town in the powiat Wolsztyński of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the district town and seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 30,501 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

geography

Wolsztyn is located about 75 kilometers southwest of Poznan and is surrounded by two lakes, Jezioro Wolsztyńskie (Lake Wollstein) and Jezioro Berzyńskie (Lake Berzyńskie) , which are fed by the Doyca, a source river of the Obra .

history

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The first documents on this area date from the mid-12th century. Around 1285, a settlement was founded by Cistercian monks from a nearby Obra monastery . The settlement had developed faster than the two current districts of Wolsztyn (Wollstein) Niałek (Nialkow) and Komorowo. Today's Wolsztyn had market rights as early as 1424. Wolsztyn's beginnings were linked to the wool trade as well as the manufacture of cloth and textiles. Over the centuries, the city of Wolsztyn has been hit by several natural disasters such as fires and epidemics. The greatest disasters broke out in 1469, 1630, 1710 and 1810. At the end of the 18th century Wolsztyn had more than a thousand inhabitants. Among them were the merchants, millers, brewers and shoemakers. By the end of the 20th century, the city's economic power had successfully increased. In 1793 the city came to Prussia and from 1807 belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw . A devastating city fire in 1810 largely destroyed the city. From 1815 to 1920 the city belonged to the province of Posen , with interruptions it was the district seat of the district of Bomst and then became Polish; in German-occupied Poland , Wollstein was the seat of the district of the same name in the Reichsgau Wartheland from 1939 to 1945 .

Museums

In Wolsztyn there is a regional museum with three locations

  • Since 1996, the Robert Koch Museum has been located in the former home of Robert Koch at 12 R. Kocha
  • Museum for the Polish sculptor and painter Marcin Rożek who died in Auschwitz at ul. 5 Stycznia 34
  • Open-air museum with old village houses and a windmill in ul.Boh. Bielnika 26

Wolsztyn Railway Depot

The Wollstein– Bentschen (Zbąszyń) railway line was put into operation in 1884. The Wolsztyn depot now has various series of steam locomotives . Some of them are still used in daily rail traffic due to an agreement between the Polish State Railways and a British Railroad Friends tour operator. This makes the Wolsztyn depot the last depot of a European state railway on which standard-gauge steam locomotives are used in regular service. Training courses for steam locomotive drivers for museum railways take place on the steam locomotives used.

Wolsztyn steam locomotive parade

Steam locomotive parade 2012
Primary school No. 1

The local railway depot is the last in Europe in which standard-gauge steam locomotives are still used in scheduled service. This is why today's PKP Cargo SA has been organizing a steam locomotive parade on the last weekend in April every year since 1993, bringing together steam locomotive enthusiasts and steam locomotives from all over Europe. At the same time there is a city festival.

local community

The city ​​and country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Wolsztyn with an area of ​​249.6 km² includes the city itself and 22 villages with school boards.

Sister cities and municipalities

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Known residents

  • Robert Koch (1843–1910), physician and microbiologist, 1872–1880 district physician for the Bomst district in Wollstein; discovered the anthrax here .

Honorary citizen

  • 2003: Lothar Bretterbauer (* 1953), mayor of the twin town Lübben, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the town twinning.

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, pp. 468-469.

See also

Web links

Commons : Wolsztyn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.muzea-wolsztyn.com.pl/ Regional Museum
  2. ↑ On the Russian railway . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 4, 2011, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Information on the town twinning Wolsztyn – Lübben on the website of the town of Wolsztyn