Barcin
Barcin [ barʨin ] ( German Bart Shin ) is a town in Poland, in the south of the province Kujawy about 40 kilometers south of Bydgoszcz.
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History
1325 a church was built on a hill, there, the place was first mentioned in 1390. The market rights received Barcin 1472. 1541 the site was moved from the right to the left bank of the river networks, on June 12 of that year was the place the city right under German law.
1772 the place was conquered by Prussia. During the Polish uprising under Tadeusz Kościuszko took place on September 28, 1794 at Barcin to a battle between Prussian troops and Polish insurgents, led by General Lipski. From 1807 to 1815 the city was Polish again and belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw.
1815 was affiliated Barcin the Prussian province of Posen Grand Duchy. The city belonged to the circle Shubin in the district of Bromberg and was the seat of the District Commissioner on the same police district. 1852 cholera raged in the town. 1880, the first time it was mentioned that the town has a post office. Twelve years later Barcin was connected to the railway network and now had a train with Żnin and Inowrocław, 1912, the line - Barcin Mogilno was opened.
After the end of World War Barcin came back to Poland.
On 7 September 1939, German troops reached the place, 13 days later there were the first executions before today's primary school. From 1939 to 1945 Barcin again belonged to the German circle Shubin, who recently had the designation Altburgund. Barcin was first in A.D. Bartelstein Networks Germanized. As this name but was constantly confused with post Bartenstein in East Prussia, the city received from 1943 the name Bartel Städt.
On January 21, 1945, the Red Army reached Barcin and the city came back to Poland.
Gmina Barcin
The urban and rural community Barcin consists of the following villages:
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Margot Kalinke, (1909-1981), German politician DP, CDU, MP, Member of Parliament (Lower Saxony)
- Jakub Wojciechowski (1884-1958), Polish author of a self- biography