Czarnków
Czarnków [ ʧarnkuf ] ( German Czarnikau 1940-1945 Scharnikau ) is the county seat of powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki ( circle Czarnikau - Schönlanke ) and a rural community in Poland. It lies in the northern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, south of Pila ( Pila ) on the networks.
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History
Czarnków was founded in the 10th or 11th century. 1108, the city was connected to Poland. 1244 to 1407 he was a seat of a castellan. The city was chartered the place in 1369th From the 13th century until the first half of the 17th century Czarnków was in possession of the noble family of Nałęcz belonging noble family Czarnkowski. Therefore, the city has still the same coat of arms as the noble family Nałęcz. 1647 a Catholic parish school was opened.
1772, there was the city with the Netzedistrict to Prussia. It belonged until 1920 to the German Reich. Czarnikau was county town for the county Czarnikau in the province of Posen.
As Czarnikau in 1920 the newly formed Second Polish Republic slammed remained the north of the networks nearby houses, previously called Czarnikau depletion, in Germany. They received the new name German Czarnikau and were incorporated into the newly established networks in the border district of Posen- West Prussia. German Czarnikau was renamed in 1937 in Scharnikau.
1939-1945 Czarnków was south of the networks occupied by the Germans, the city also renamed in 1940 Scharnikau and eingliederten in the Reichsgau Warta country.
Towards the end of World War II, on 27 February 1945 already, the school was reopened.
Personalities of the city
In alphabetical order
- Janko of Czarnikau (1320-1387), Polish chronicler
- Deter Adolf (1900-1969), German politician (KPD, SED) and trade union official ( fdgb )
- Wilfried Erdmann ( b. 1940 ), German Einhandsegler
- Ada von Gersdorff (1854-1922), German writer
- Martin Gerson (1902-1944), pioneer of agricultural retraining of Jews for Palestine
- Ernst Haenchen (1894-1975), German theologian
- Augusta Holtz (1871-1986), German -American, was 115 years old
- Frederick David Michaelis (1813-1892), German grammar school and high school teachers in Königsberg
- John Neumann (1918-2012), German politician ( SPD), MdHB
- Frieda Riess ( 1890 to 1955), German - Jewish photographer
- Reinhold Sadler (1848-1906), American politician, Governor of Nevada
- Artur Schwerin (1882-1941), journalist and writer
- Oskar Theodor Schwerin (1873-1934), journalist and writer
- Piotr Waśko ( b. 1961 ), Member of the Sejm
Sister City
Rudolf Pieper ( b. 1935 near Czarnków ), Mayor Gadebusch in 1990-1994, was appointed in a solemn special meeting of the town council of Czarnków on 23 April 2010 an honorary citizen of the city. Czarnków will be recognizing beeper for the understanding and friendship between the Mecklenburg town Gadebusch with the Polish city Czarnków.
Gmina
The rural community Czarnków ( to the city Czarnków not heard ) covers an area of 347.98 km ² and thus takes 19.23 % of the area of the powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki one. The municipality has 11,255 inhabitants ( as of June 30, 2013).
Neighboring municipalities are:
- The city Czarnków
- Communities: Budzyń ( Budsin ), Chodzież ( Kolmar ), Lubasz ( Lubasch ) Polajewo ( Güldenau ) Ryczywół ( Ritsch Walde ), Trzcianka ( Schönlanke ) Ujście ( Ush ) and Wieleń ( Filehne ).
The rural community Czarnków includes the following localities: