Władysławowo

Władysławowo [ vwadɨ'swavɔvɔ ] ( German Großendorf, Kashubian Wiôlgô Wiesbaden ) is a town of about 15,000 inhabitants in Poland. It is located eight kilometers north of Puck on the Baltic coast and belonging to the Gdansk Bay Puck Bay. Immediately following the city extends to the southeast, the Hel Peninsula. Administratorisch the city is the powiat Pucki, Pomeranian Voivodeship belongs.

The seaside town is a tourist resort in Władysławowo Kaschubien and the largest fishing port in Poland. In Rozewie (formerly Rixhöft ) is the northernmost point of Pomerania. In Jastrzębia Góra ( Habichtsberg ) is a 33 m high cliff to the Baltic Sea.

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History

The first mention of the Kashubian village Vela Ves comes from the year 1284th At that time the village belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania ( dukes of Samborid ).

From 1308 to 1466 the town belonged to the religious state of Prussia; 1407 is the first time the German term Großendorf witnessed.

1466 was the place to so-called Royal Prussia ( with poles connected in a personal union Duchy of Prussia, Prussia royal share, first by the Union of Lublin with Poland joined in Real Union ). 1598 is the first time occupied the Polish spelling Wielka Wies.

King Władysław IV Vasa was started in 1635 to protect Poland from the Swedes on the Hel peninsula with the construction of a naval base on the Baltic Sea. In Vela Ves entrenchments were built between 1641 to 1643 that were 1643/44 completed with the built from the village 8 km fortress Wladyslawowo. The construction management had the artillery Lieutenant Frederick Getkant and the architect Johann Pleitner. With the arrival of the Swedes under Charles X Gustav in 1655, the continuation of the port construction was canceled. The village and the Fort Wladyslawowo were destroyed, as well as the port facilities, the remains of which have disappeared over the centuries in the Baltic Sea. The fortress was 1722 the last time recorded cartographically by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni, in the Carte de la Pologne. Even today it is sunk into the sea.

In 1772 Wielka Wies fell through the First Partition of Poland to the Kingdom of Prussia. At that time it had only 15 inhabitants. In the cholera epidemic died in 1848 thirty inhabitants, 1877, the population was 438 in 1877 an extensive burial ground was between Großendorf and Schwarzau found from the beginning of the Iron Age. Characteristic of these, known as the Grand Strand culture culture are face-pots. More recent finds were made ​​in 1913 and 1932 on the territory of today Hallerowo. In 1885, the founding of the fire took place.

After the First World War, the city was in January 1920 returned to Poland. In the same year the Polish officer Henryk Bagiński acquired 20 hectares of forest in the corridors of Wielka Wies and founded a settlement there, which he named in honor of General Józef Haller of Hallenburg Hallerowo. Haller himself acquired in the same year parts thereof. Hallerowo became a summer resort, the residential places Cetniewo ( Cettnau ) and Poczernino been to resorts.

In 1922, the place a station on the railway line Reda - Hel. The Polish part of the coast started to develop into a fashionable bathing area of the Second Republic. The population grew and grew from 507 Ew. (1907 ) to 727 Ew. ( 1931). In the course of the construction of Polish military harbor Gdynia was built 1936-1938 by the existing of Polish and French companies port construction consortium and the fishing harbor, which was named for inauguration on May 3, 1938, after the king Władysław IV Vasa as Władysławowo.

After the Polish campaign in 1939, the town was again incorporated into the German Reich, Hallerowo was united with Great village, which itself into the community Strellin ( Strzelno ) in the district of Neustadt (West Prussia ) was incorporated.

On March 13, 1945, the town was occupied by the Red Army. He returned to Poland and was from 1945 to 1948 as an independent village name Wies Wielka - Hallerowo. 1948 were assumed as equal places of management in Władysławowo Wielka Wies and the seaside resort Hallerowo.

On July 1, 1952 Wielka Wies, Hallerowo and the port settlement Władysławowo to the municipality Władysławowo were combined, which was lodged on October 13, 1954 with the achievement of the necessary population of 2,200 for city -like settlement. In 1961 the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built. The elevation of the city and the neighboring towns of incorporation on June 30, 1963.

In 1978, the Coastal Landscape Park Władysławowo was established on the Baltic coast. With today living in Australia Descendants of General Haller a memorial to Haller and the Blue Army in 1990 in the former home Hallerówka furnished. The neighboring Blue House of his adjutant Captain J. Dworzański is used for the Coastal Landscape Park for a permanent exhibition since 1981.

1993 created by Stanisław Józef Haller Szwechowicz monument to was inaugurated by Hall castle in the city, the same year the town was a new coat of arms, which is to highlight the Kashubian traditions. Below the crest is located in Kashubian the sentence We consider it to God.

In Cetniewo district composed "Centre for Olympic preparations ," a training center for Polish athletes. Władysławowo venue is an annual sports festival. As a city of sport a Sternallee the top athletes was set up in 2000, will be assessed in the major during the festival athletes with a brass star.

Community

The municipality covers an area of 38 Władysławowo km ² with 14,214 inhabitants. In addition to the city with 10,200 inhabitants, including the towns of:

Partner communities

  • Allinge - Gudhjem, Denmark
  • Lamstedt, Germany

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Keidanski Hermann (1865-1938), chess master and chess composer

References

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