Wronki

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Wronki
Wronki coat of arms
Wronki (Poland)
Wronki
Wronki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Greater Poland
Powiat : Szamotulski
Gmina : Wronki
Area : 5.81  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 42 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 42 '0 "  N , 16 ° 23' 0"  E
Residents : 11,173 (June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 64-510
Telephone code : (+48) 67
License plate : PSZ
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Poznan – Szczecin



Wronki [ 'vrɔŋki ] ( German Wronke , 1943–1945 Warthestadt , older German also Fronich ) is a town in the powiat Szamotulski of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 19,071 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

geography

The city is located 55 km northwest of Poznan on the Warta . In the north are the extensive coniferous forests of the Puszcza Notecka . In the Warth valley near Wronke, lignite deposits were discovered in the 19th century.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1279 and 1280 in documents of Duke Przemysł II . In addition to the Dominican monastery, a German settlement was formed (called Fronich in old documents ), which later received city rights. From the 16th century, the city passed into aristocratic ownership. In the 19th century the estate was owned by the Counts Dzieduszycki .

The largest prison in Poland is located in Wronki. Rosa Luxemburg was imprisoned there for a few months during the First World War . From the 1960s to the 1980s, dissidents and Solidarność members , including Jacek Kuroń , were held in the prison .

Population development

  • 1819: 1,824 inhabitants
  • 1837: 2,252 inhabitants (813 Jews)
  • 1845: 2,384 inhabitants
  • 1858: 2,413 inhabitants
  • 1890: 3,134 inhabitants (926 Protestants, 1,657 Catholics, 550 Jews, 1 other)
  • 1905: 4,722 inhabitants (1,475 Protestants, 2,867 Catholics, 380 Jews)

economy

Wronki is known for the Amica industrial company , which manufactures refrigerators, washing machines and gas and electric stoves. He is also the namesake and sponsor of the Amica Wronki soccer team , which at times played in the Polish first division.

In April 2010, Amica sold two of its factories to Samsung. Samsung is thus the largest employer in town alongside Amica.

local community

The town itself and 22 villages with school authorities belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Wronki.

Sister cities and municipalities

Attractions

Monastery church
jail
  • Parish Church of Saint Catherine
  • Franciscan monastery church (formerly the Dominicans)
  • Chapel of the Holy Cross (1887)
  • Wronki Penitentiary (formerly the Central Prison for the Province of Poznan) (1894)

traffic

Wronki is located on the provincial road 182, from which the provincial roads 140 to Cischkowo, 150 to Sieraków ( Zirke ) and 184 in the direction of Poznan branch off. The station is located on the important Poznań – Szczecin railway line . The branch line to Obornik that branches off here is no longer in operation.

Personalities

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. 470-471.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=53780
  2. ↑ See forum genealogy - German place names in the Wartheland
  3. ↑ Cf. web link " Order on change of place names in Reichsgau Wartheland " - Samter district
  4. ↑ http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=53780
  5. ^ Andrzej Friszke: Czas KOR-u. Jacek Kuroń a geneza Solidarności , Wydawnictwo Znak / Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Krakow 2011, ISBN 978-83-240-1813-0 , p. 233 ff.