Aleksandrów Kujawski
Aleksandrów Kujawski [ alɛksandruf kujafsci ] ( until 1879 Trojanów, 1879-1919 Aleksandrowo (Russian ) or Aleksandrów Podgraniczny; German 1939-1943 Alexandrov ( Vistula ), 1943-1945 Vistula Städt ) is a city in the Polish province of Kujawy and is near the Vistula River some 20 km south-southeast of Thorn. Aleksandrów Kujawski is the seat of powiat Aleksandrowski and has about 12,300 inhabitants.
History
The construction of the station Trojanów during the construction of the railway line from Kutno to Thorn 1859-1865 was the nucleus of the future town. 1862 reversed the first trains. Equally important was the location near the border of the Russian Empire, in which the former Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) was 1832 dawned, and Prussia, in 1815 the province of Posen, who had received it in 1793 in the second partition of Poland, of the Vienna Congress was awarded again. In 1879, a meeting between Tsar Alexander II and Kaiser Wilhelm I. took place here. On this occasion, the town was renamed in Aleksandrowo and received city rights; some time later it was renamed the Aleksandrów Pograniczny ( " Aleksandrów on the border "). Got its name, the city in 1919, when Poland was restored as an independent state. In the years 1921-1923 there were in Aleksandrów Kujawski an internment camp for soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
1932 Aleksandrów Kujawski seat of the district Nieszawa ( powiat Nieszawski ), who came on April 1, 1938 to the then Voivodeship of Pomerania, which - after its reduction on April 7, 1945 - the ' Great ' forfeited in the name and in 1950, after their new capital Bydgoszcz has been renamed. The county existed until 1975. Between 1975 and 1999 there was Aleksandrów Kujawski Voivodeship to Wloclawek ( Leslau ). Since the administrative reform of 1999 Aleksandrów Kujawski is back county seat.
In August 2008, a monument to 70 murdered by members of the local Polish State Security Service in 1945, Germans was built in the city.
Gmina
The rural community Aleksandrów Kujawski, to which the city does not belong, has an area of 131.64 km ² in which 11,596 people live (June 30 2013). It consists of the following localities:
- (some villages on the northern and western edge of the Gmina belonged to Prussia 1815-1920 )