Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Grodzisk Wielkopolski listen? / I [ v ʲ grɔʥisk ɛlkɔpɔlsci ] ( German Králové) is a town in Poland in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ( Wielkopolskie ). The city is located southwest of Poznan.
History
The first permanent settlement on the territory of today's Grodzisk Wielkopolski dates from the year 1257 The spelling of the name changed several times, versions are:. Grodisze, Grottische, Grodisce, Grozisce, Grodih, Grodziscz, Grodyscze, Grodzysko, Grodzisko to the currently used Grodzisk. At times also the German name Gratz was common.
When the place got exactly its town charter, is unknown. For documents show that the place with security already in 1303 had city rights.
The first Jews settled in the early 16th century. The first document attesting to this comes from the year 1505, it mentions the Jews Abraham Grodzisk. On Yiddish and Hebrew the place was called גרידץ ( Gritz or Gritza ).
1563 a school of Stanisław Ostroróg was founded in the city.
1593 was the municipal law for Grodzisk Wielkopolski, which now had about 1,160 inhabitants, awarded again. The re- allocation of the town charter was with the founding of a new city about 150 meters in front of the old city. 1601, the first privileges for the brewery were awarded. The place was an important place for the brewing of beer quickly. End of the 18th century there were 53 breweries in the city. 1626 changed the owner of the city to the family Opaliński. They remained the owners until 1775.
With the Second Partition of Poland, the city was struck in 1793 Prussia and the newly formed province of South Prussia was assigned. Between 1807 and 1815, belonging to the Duchy of Warsaw, the city came back to Prussia in 1815 and then became part of the province of Posen. From 1887 to 1918 was the district seat Gratz Gratz, then until 1932 a Polish powiat, after the city was in 1920 again came to Poland.
During the Second World War, the city was annexed by Germany from 1939 to 1945 and assigned to the Reichsgau Warta country. In nearby Młyniewo a transit camp for further transport to concentration camps emerged, initially for Jews, and later relocated to Poland and prisoners of war. On 27 January 1945 the Red Army reached the city, which since then part of Poland.
The more regressed beer production was in 1993 completely. In 1999, the city was once again the seat of a Powiats.
Gmina
The urban and rural community Grodzisk Wielkopolski consists of the following villages:
Twinning
- Betton (France)
- Delligsen ( Germany )
- Merksplas (Belgium )
- Torrelodones ( Spain)
- Dolyna (Ukraine )
- Biržai (Lithuania )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Rudolf Mosse (* 1843), German publisher, founder of the hospital in Gratz
- Marcus Mosse (* 1808) in Mark- Friedland ( poln: Miroslawiec ), father of Rudolf, doctor in Gratz, in the Spring of Nations in 1848, he fought on the side of the Polish insurgents in the battle for Gratz
- Michał Drzymała (* 1857), Polish national activist
- Salomon Herzfeld (* 1875), German lawyer and notary public, a member of the Main Board of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith
- Hans Heinrich Müller ( * 1879), German architect
Attractions
The old town is dominated by buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. At the Old Market Square is built in the middle of the 19th century neo-classical town hall. In the old town there are the Catholic churches of St. Hedwig, built in the first half of the 15th century, rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style, built in the 17th century in Baroque style former monastery church of St. Bernard and the neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart Jesus, built in 1904/1905 as a Protestant church, designed by Ludwig von Tiedemann.
Sports
The football club Dyskobolia Grodzisk played up to the 2007/ 08 season in the top Polish league until the club Polonia Warszawa merged with, which took the place of Grodzisk in the Ekstraklasa. Since the 2008/ 09 season, the club plays in the fourth league.