Krzyż Wielkopolski
Krzyż Wielkopolski [ kʃɨʒ ‿ v ʲ ɛlkɔpɔlsk ʲ i] ( German Cross ( Eastern Railway ) ) is a city with a seat urban and rural community in the Polish province of Greater Poland, part of the powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki and has about 6,500 inhabitants.
Geographical location
North of the junctions from Drage ( Drava ) and hammer flow in the networks ( Noteć ) is the cross in the northwest of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Although the town is an important railway junction, but is away from the national road network. Over a two-kilometer long access road leads to the voivodeship 181 of Drezdenko ( Driesen ) to Wieleń ( Filehne ). The nearest large city is Gorzów Wielkopolski ( Landsberg ad Warta ), which is 60 kilometers away. North of the cross is located at the previously mentioned Kaisersee a campsite, then the Draheimer National Park begins.
History
The name Cross / Eastern Railway is officially only since the city survey in 1936. Initially founded in 1701 the landlord of Filehne Johann Sapieha on the western shore of the lake Kaiser a so-called Dutch village, which was named Sapiehadorf. 1750 was built on the opposite bank, another settlement. In the church books of the late 18th century, the settlements with Drageseite and bush side are called. Later, the place names Drage - Lukatz ( Łokacz Wielkie ) and bush - Lukatz ( Łokacz Maly ) were common.
From 1847 to 1848 was the venue through the range of Stargard - Poznań Railway Company built. 1848, the route Kuestrin poses with the construction of a railway station was begun in the planned diversion, who received a built in classical style reception building. Although the construction of the Prussian Eastern Railway was not approved until the end of 1849 final of the Prussian Landtag, the station cross was created with the southwest-northeast orientation of its tracks that a route from Berlin to the lower Vistula and East Prussia should be once the main route. The construction of the Eastern Railway in 1849 started from the said station and completed on 27 July 1851 Schneidemühl up to Bromberg. Other sections of the comprehensive last 740 km route was followed until the opening of the final section of the first Berlin Ostbahnhof to Gusow on October 1, 1867. From the time here, therefore, crossed two major railway lines and led to the name " Cross" later.
Once in the following years from this place more railway lines were built by German crown ( Wałcz ) and Rogasen ( Rogoźno ), the station had gained so much importance that developed a new settlement in its environment. It arose initially haphazard scale streets with shops and public buildings. 1882 The Protestant church was built, and 1900, the marketplace has been completed. The good rail links and the not far distant port networks led several industrial plants such as a starch factory and wood processing companies to settle in the place. 1914, the two Lukatz villages were incorporated. From 430 in 1880, the population in 1910 had increased to 2,400.
Until 1922 Cross belonged to Poznań district Czarnikau. After the Greater Poland Uprising 1918/19, and the loss of large parts of West Prussia to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles, the city came into the newly formed province border Posen- West Prussia and was there just at the Polish border in the district of German crown. In 1938 the non-viable province Grenzmark was dissolved and incorporated into the province of Pomerania. By 1945, Cross was now in Pommern. At the beginning of World War II lived 4,956 people in the city. With the conquest by the Soviet troops cross was destroyed to 85 percent.
Church
The Protestant inhabitants of the station Cross visited first the Church in Dragelukatz (Polish: Łokacz Wielki ). , A timber probably from the period after 1700 as then arose on the Cross railway station, more and more settlements, presented the Railway Administration, a prayer hall and in 1854 a school premises at the former Maybachstraße available. Later, the government established then a plot ready, and so was able - after nearly three decades - will be inaugurated a newly built church on October 3, 1882. It was a simple hall church with Ostchorraum and one on the - provided with a superior portal - attached western gable roof skylights. On the western forecourt was a wooden belfry.
The Catholic Church members had after the demarcation in 1920, first must come to terms with a church barrack at the former lake road. Then a massive church was built at the former Schiller Street until the year 1936.
Today, both church buildings of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, whose denomination represents the vast majority of the population of Krzyż belong. The two parishes belong to the deanery Trzcianka ( Schönlanke ) in the Diocese of Koszalin - Kolobrzeg. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the parish Pila ( Pila ) in the Diocese of Pomerania - Greater Poland the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
In Krzyż Wielkopolski. today there are also a place of worship of the Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites.
Twinning
With the Schleswig-Holstein town Bredstedt there is a sponsorship contract.
Community Krzyż Wielkopolski
The urban and rural community Krzyż Wielkopolski covers an area of 174.5 km ² with a population of 8,934.
This includes 16 villages, of which 11 form the so-called Soltysships:
Other towns are: Łokacz Maly ( Buschlukatz ) Łokacz Wielki ( Dragelukatz ) Pestkownica, Rzeczyn and Zacisze.