Bojanowo
Bojanowo [ bɔja'nɔvɔ ] (1943-1945 Schmückert ) is a town in Poland in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 Traffic
- 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.1 External links
- 5.2 footnotes
Geography
Climate
The average annual temperature is 8.8 ° C, with an annual average rainfall of 650 mm.
History
On April 16, 1638 Stefan Bojanowski of Władysław IV Vasa was given the right to plant a city with a commitment to build a Protestant church. The church was completed in 1640. 1663 Bogusław Bojanowski, son of the town's founder, put on a new city next to the old and called them after his own name Bogusławowo; for them he received on 20 August of the same year of King John II Casimir the municipal law.
By the Second Partition of Poland, the place from 1793 to 1807 came temporarily to Prussia, but was then after the Peace of Tilsit as part of the Duchy of Warsaw Polish again.
Due to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Bojanowo again Prussian. On August 12, 1857 fire destroyed the entire city, 440 houses were destroyed and 2,000 people lost their homes. In 1860 the construction of the Protestant church, now Catholic, completed. 1881 a brewery was opened with a capacity of 2,000 hectoliters per year. 1900, the station was built.
After the end of World War II, the city was in January 1920 again to Poland. The border with Germany was about two kilometers away.
On September 5, 1939, the city was occupied by German troops and annexed by the German Reich on 8 October 1939. With the arrangement on place names change in the Reich Warta Country on 18 May 1943, the city was renamed after its honorary citizen Heinrich Schmückert in Schmückert. On January 20, 1945, the Germans fled the city before the Red Army, which marched on 23 January and Bojanowo returned in Polish administration.
Population Development
The late 19th and early 20th century, some 80 percent of the population German. After the end of World War I and the change of government affiliation Bojanowos the population decreased and the population structure changed. Approximately 55.2 percent of the population considered themselves to the Germans and about 43.6 were Poles. 1938 counted 2,994 inhabitants, of whom 86.9 per cent in Poland, 12.5 % German and about 0.6 percent Jews. 1946 lived 1,984 inhabitants in Bojanowo.
Community
The community has about 9,000 inhabitants on an area of 123.5 square km. For urban and rural community Bojanowo consists of the villages:
Traffic
The city, located on the street 261 between Wroclaw and Poznan, where each is an international airport. Furthermore, there are 20 kilometers north Leszno and 15 kilometers south Rawicz on the road.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Julius Frauenstadt (1813-1879), philosopher
- Friedrich August Theodor Dietrich (1817-1903), sculptor in Berlin
- Karl Peucker (1859-1940), geographer and cartographer