Kępno
Kępno / i ( German: Kempen, older even long ford )? Is a town in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship to the river Niesob. It is located about 80 km northeast of Wroclaw and 60 km southeast of Ostrow Wielkopolski and has around 15,000 inhabitants.
- 2.1 Structures
- 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 4.2 additional personalities who are associated with the city
- 5.1 External links
- 5.2 footnotes
History
During the 10th to the 12th century there was a defensive fortification in the city. Around the 13th century, a settlement formed around the plant. On February 15 1282 a secret meeting between Duke Mściwój of Pomerania and Great Poland Przemysław took place here. The city was chartered in 1283 by the City under the name Przemyslaw Langenvort. 1660 was the place again in the meantime lost city law of King John II Casimir. The first primary school was opened in 1664. 1668, the first craft guild was founded by the shoemaker. 1691 a great fire raged, 1708 and 1709 epidemics in the city. After the second partition of Poland, the city was part of Prussia from 1793 to 1807, 1807 to 1815 polish again as part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815, it came again to Prussia, and in 1887 the seat of a county. After the end of World War I, the city on January 17, 1920 was officially ceded to Poland. The occupation by the Third Reich in September 1939 ended on January 21, 1945 with the invasion of the Red Army. Today Kępno is a center of Polish furniture industry.
Twinning
- Encs, Hungary
- Trutnov, Czech Republic
Culture and sights
Structures
- The town hall of 1846
- The building of the District Court from 1835
- A castle from the Middle Ages
- The synagogue, which was built from 1815 to 1816. After the destruction of the Second World War, it was rebuilt.
- Residential buildings from the second half of the 18th century ( Rynek 26, ul Stara 6, 8 and Kościelna 2) and from the 19th century ( Rynek 35)
- The Baroque Catholic church of St. Martin
- The Evangelical -Augsburg Church
- In the district Mikorzyn, about ten kilometers north of the city: The Shrine of St. Giles ( Sanctuary Sw Idziego. ), A neo-baroque church with twin towers and a late Gothic statue of St. Giles in the 15th century.
- The station, in its current form in 1911, in the rare in Poland design of a tower station
Community
The urban and rural municipality has an area of 124 km ², on the 24 770 people live. It includes the villages:
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Wilhelm Freund (1806-1894), German classical scholar of Jewish faith
- Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), German scholar and rabbi
- Hermann Aron (1845-1913), German electrical engineer Jewish faith
- Schelenz Hermann (1848-1922), German chemist, industrialist and historian Pharmacy
- Maximilian Kempner (1854-1927), German jurist and member of the German Reichstag
- Adolf Warsaw (1855-1930) German historian
- Edward Lasker (1885-1973), German -American electrical engineer and chess master
- Ilse Häfner -Mode ( * 1902 in Kempen ), German artist of Jewish faith
- Witold Tomczak ( born 1957 ), Member of Parliament of the Sejm and the European Parliament
Other personalities who are associated with the city
- Paweł Anweiler (* 1950), Lutheran theologian, worked for three years in Kepno