Babimost
Babimost [ bab imɔst ʲ ] ( German Bomst ) is a small town in western Poland. It is the seat of the homonymous urban and rural community in the powiat Zielonogórski, Lubusz Voivodeship.
Geographical location
The city is located in the west of Poland on the eastern edge of the Lubusz Voivodeship. About 80 kilometers away is the state borders to Germany, 75 km east lies poses.
History
Bomst was probably made in 1000 at a ford by the Lazy Obra as a settlement around a fortification. From 1257 to 1307 belonged to the place that was created on a river island, the Cistercian Monastery Obra, which supplied the surrounding vineyards. In 1319 it came to Brandenburg, 1329 back to the Silesian Duchy of Glogau. Under Casimir III. the Great came back to Poland and in 1335 it was Immediatstadt. Władysław II Jagiello, King of Poland since 1386, gave her before 1397 Magdeburg Law. 1530 Sigismund renewed the old city rights based on the model of the city of Poznan. In addition to the regular 1652 Old Town was established by Silesian exiles, which grew quickly became the largest district. In the Second Northern War in 1656 robbed by a Swedish army and destroyed. The Swedes burned the priest and the vicar on a pyre. In the 18th century, the synagogue was rebuilt. 1762 January Gładysz, a famous Polish painter, born in Babimost. In 1782, the first Protestant church was built. In 1793 Bomst came to Prussia. 1871, 2272 people in the town. Of these, 1042 Catholic, mostly Poland, 1070 evangelical, mostly German, and 160 Jewish. The inhabitants lived on the cloth and shoemaking and especially the hops and grapes.
Between 1818 and 1938, was Bomst ( with interruptions), seat of the district Bomst.
1939 lived 1950 people in the place, of which 600 Poland.
1945, the site was destroyed to 35 percent. The previous inhabitants fled before the Red Army or were later driven out by force.
1945 to 1950 the place was county town again. The population increased after the war: in 1946 lived 1284 people here, in 1957 there were already, 2100.
Partnerships
- Neuruppin, Germany
- Office Döbern country, Spree -Neisse district in Germany
- The urban and rural municipality maintains a partnership with the Brandenburg municipality Felixsee.
Community
Babimost forms an urban and rural community with 6,500 inhabitants 93 km ². In addition to the city Babimost lie within the municipality following villages:
- Janowiec (boiler village)
- Kolesin ( Goltzen )
- Kuligowo ( Kulkau )
- Laski ( Babimost ) ( Mountain Vorwerk )
- Laski Dolne ( Laske )
- Lesniki (forest Vorwerk )
- Nowe Kramsko ( New Kramzig, 1937-45 Kleist village)
- Podmokle Małe (small Posemuckel, 1937-45 Klein poses Brück )
- Podmokle Wielkie ( United Posemuckel, 1937-45 Great poses Brück )
- Stare Kramsko (Alt Kramzig, 1937-45 Krammensee )
- Zdzisław ( Babimost ) ( Unruhsau )