Kruszwica

Location

Kruschwitz located at the outflow of the Noteć (Eng. networks) from the Goplosee.

History

The place was described by Gallus Anonymus as castrum Crusuicz, established location of the Piast dynasty, then known as Cruciuis 1133 and 1193 Crusvicia. After the early legend of the " Mouse Tower of Kruschwitz on Goplosee " the Piast dynasty are descended from the Rademacher Piast, whose son Siemowit had risen after the demise of an older dynasty Duke of Greater Poland.

AfterJan Dlugosz a bishopric for Kuyavian is under Mieszko I, according Boguchwal under Mieszko II Lambert in Kruschwitz have been created, but this was soon resolved, but which is not documented. Only Bolesław III. Wrymouth it gave rise to 1123 in Wloclawek ( Leslau dt ).

1149 was a meeting here with Margrave Albert the Bear, Otto I and other princes instead. In 1157, the Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) an army in the area.

In June 1230 Konrad of Mazovia was the Teutonic Order in the Treaty of Kruschwitz the neighboring Kulmerland as a fief or donation between the rivers Vistula, Drewenz and Ossa with a number of sovereign rights, the tion states only the sovereign, such as the salt shelf and the coin and customs legislation. Thus, the Order received extensive sovereignty in this area. Everything to be conquered by the Prussians land should belong to the order to equal rights.

In 1332 it was conquered by German knights.

In the second war, Sweden, the city was occupied by Swedish troops in 1655 and held until June 1657.

Demographics

1772 Kruschwitz became Prussian, as at that time the smallest town (79 inhabitants) throughout the country.

Attractions

The Collegiate Church of St Mary (formerly St. Peter and Paul ) was probably 1120-40 under Duke Boleslaw III. She is one of the oldest churches in Poland, if not the oldest ever. It was restored in the mid-19th and again mid-20th century and as far as possible back in the Latin original state.

Traffic

The Kruszwica station is on the railway line 231 Inowrocław Rąbinek - Mogilno.

Gmina

For urban and rural community Kruszwica following towns include: