Kórnik

Kórnik ( German Kurnik, 1939-45 castle town ) is a town in powiat Poznański the Wielkopolska Region and also the seat of an urban and rural community. It is 20 kilometers southeast of poses in the field of large Polish lakes (Pojezierze Wielkopolskie ). Today Kórnik forms, together with the older town Bnin an administrative unit.

History

Already in the 13th century was in Bnin a fortified settlement, which received city rights in 1390. The neighboring Kórnik was raised only in 1430 to the city. In Kórnik since the 15th century residence of several noble families that built the château library and enlarged. At the Second Partition of Poland, both cities fell in 1793 to Prussia. 1870 lived in Kórnik 2,300 inhabitants, in 1992 there were in 1961 merged city of about 6,000. 1939 marched the German Wehrmacht, the city was renamed in castle town, deported the Jewish inhabitants and later murdered, destroyed Jewish cemetery and synagogue. From 1975 to 1998 belonged to the Province of Posen Kórnik.

In Kórnik also the Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences is ( Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN).

Attractions

  • Kórnik is known today by its neo-Gothic castle with park. There is a museum and a well-known library in it. Originally dating from the 14th century building was rebuilt in the 19th century by order of the nobles Tytus Działyński after a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The last owner Władysław Zamoyski bequeathed it in 1924 to the Polish people. The castle is surrounded by a 40 acre Arboretum, the largest and oldest in Poland, which contains over 3,000 species of trees and shrubs.
  • All Saints collegiate church from the 14th century, rebuilt in the 19th century.
  • Baroque Town Hall in Bnin
  • Dendrological Museum

Twin Cities

  • Königstein im Taunus, Germany

Community

The urban and rural community Kórnik includes the following localities:

Personalities

  • Georg von Kries (* 1863 Good Smarzewo at Schmentau; † 1922 on Good small Watzmirs at Swaroschin ), Prussian forester and politician
  • Wislawa Szymborska (* 1923 in Bnin, † 2012 in Kraków), the Polish Nobel Prize winner
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