Lipno, Lipno County
Lipno ( German Leipe 1941-45 ) is a town in the Polish province of Kujawy and lies on the River Mien about 20 km north- north-east of Wloclawek and 40 km south-east of Toruń.
History
Lipno in 1349 was awarded the city of Kulm law. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the city experienced a period of prosperity. After the Second Partition of Poland Lipno came to Prussia. 1807, the city came to the Napoleon dependent Duchy of Warsaw (1809 Grand Duchy ), ruled in personal union by the King of Saxony.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it remained in the newly established Kingdom of Poland, which was in personal union with the Empire of Russia. After the re-establishment of an independent Poland after the First World War was Lipno seat of its own Powiats. This status it lost in 1975, but was in turn after the administrative reform in 1999 the seat of a county government.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec; 1897-1987 ), Polish actress, star of the silent film era
- Leszek Balcerowicz ( b. 1947 ), Polish economist and politician, as well as temporary Polish Finance Minister
- Katarzyna Kowalska ( born 1985 ), Polish long-distance runner
- Lech Wałęsa ( born 1943 ), Polish politician and Nobel Peace Prize as well as temporary chairman of the Solidarity trade union
Gmina
The country Lipno, Lipno to which the city does not belong, has an area of 209.72 km ² of which 11,649 people lived (30 June 2013).
It includes the following localities:
( The German names come from the period of the Nazi occupation in World War II )