ChodzieÅ¼

Chodzież [ xɔdz ʲ ɛʃ ] ( German until 1878 Chodziesen, 1878-1920 Colmar, 1939-1945 Kolmar ) is a Polish town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It lies about 70 km north of Poznań ( Posen) in the Chodzieskie - Lakeland, a hilly, wooded moraine landscape. Within the city limits three lakes Miejskie (104 ha), Karczewnik (34 ha) and are Strzeleckie (18 ha). Because of the favorable microclimate, a sanatorium was built in 1925.

History

The village Chodzież 1409 was mentioned for the first time in a document. In 1434 it received its town charter and first artisans, especially weavers, dyers and drapers, settled there.

Caused by the Swedish - Polish war came in 1656 to a second, larger wave of immigration of craftsmen; Chodzież has been extended to the Western Town.

In the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city fell to Prussia, 1818 Chodziesen county seat. 1879, the railway line poses -Colmar - Schneidemühl was opened, for which construction is particularly the district of Colmar Axel had used. By 1878 the city was renamed in his honor Chodziesen in Kolmar in Posen.

In the Castle of Chodziesen, which had been abandoned by the landlords in the early 19th century, an earthenware factory was after it temporarily served as a brewery, established. In 1897 a porcelain factory added with time, 2,000 employees, which still exists today. Chodzieżer porcelain is known throughout Poland.

1918, after the German Kaiser had abdicated, Polish troops and Polish and German People's Councils were formed in the province of Posen. It came to the Polish armed uprising, in which Kolmar was conquered by the Poles on January 8, 1919. After negotiations, the troops were still in the same night back; the city was neutral until February 3, German troops invaded. Kolmar 1920 was definitively allocated to the Polish state was not until the Treaty of Versailles and was from then on officially re Chodzież.

The German-speaking inhabitants of Chodzież mostly remained in the city until they were forced by the invasion of the Russian army to flee to Germany in World War II. After the German occupation of 1939, the county Kolmar was restored i Posen Posen in the Reich and from 1940 to 1945, the city was county town of the same name by the county Kolmar ( Wartheland ) Correspondence of the Warta country.