Åobez
Łobez ( [ wɔbɛs ] listen? / I, Labes German ) is a town of about 10,500 inhabitants in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is the seat of the Powiats Lobeski and an urban and rural community.
- 3.1 Municipality arrangement
- 3.2 partner communities
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
- 4.3 footnotes
Geography
The county town is on the river Rega 76 meters above sea level and is located in the central part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Pomerania. Szczecin is about 80 kilometers away, the neighboring cities Nowogardzka ( German Pomerania ) and Drawsko Pomorskie ( Pomerania German ) 30 or 18 kilometers. Łobez is on the railway line Stargard - Gdynia, can be easily reached by road only on secondary roads, of which but five meet in the place. The area is characterized by extensive forested areas.
City Łobez
History
On the basis of prehistoric archaeological finds, it can be assumed that the later city Labes had a Slavic settlement predecessor, which was the later medieval town immediately southwest. 1271 identifies a certificate a Borco dominus de Lobis ( " Borko, Lord of Lobis "). This is a reference to the noble family of Borcke into whose possession was the place.
The settlement of the town Labes is well done from wild root. The city status was made well before 1295 by the Borcke family. Anyway, the city has been designated in 1295 under the name Lobese as civitas. Later, for the year 1348, Lubeck city law is detected, but this was only in certain areas of law. A confirmation of the town privileges by the Borcke family was in 1460, which is passed down through a copy of the 1623. The Borcke remained until the 19th century, the ruler of the city of Labes.
Sovereigns were to 1637 the Dukes of Pomerania. Then the Pomeranian dynasty died out and the gripping Pomerania, which also was Labes, came to Brandenburg- Prussia.
In the years 1637 and 1685 Labes was destroyed by fire on. After the reconstruction dominated clothiers and shoemakers economic life. 1792 took a copper hammer on the operation that existed almost eighty years. Labes was a farming town. In addition to some farmers, there was the Good and the Good Zühlsdorf Labes B. A few kilometers outside direction Prütznow was the Good Labes A and D.
Labes was also known for the production of wooden clogs ( = Schlurren, hence the nickname Schlurr - praise ). After the Prussian administrative reform of 1815 was Labes district seat of the rain forest. It created the District Office, the District Court and the financial and land registry. As Labes 1859 connected to the railway line Stargard - Koszalin this was also the beginning of an increased industrialization. Decisive brothers emperors were involved in it with their machine and a wire fence factory. Her father Reinhold Kaiser from Prütznow had been due to an on November 1, 1898 closed with the city Labes Treaty established the electricity supply of and Labes Labes supplied with power from his in Prütznow operated by Rega power company. Great importance was the establishment of the state stud in to Labes, which was initiated in 1876 by the Prussian government. It was the only stud specializing in Pomerania and on breeding stallions. The starch factory, the processed potato harvest in the nearby towns, had a significance beyond Labes. Furthermore, there was a husking mill, a flour mill and a sand-lime brick factory.
The positive development of the city is evident in the number of inhabitants. While they had 1885 5.225 inhabitants, lived at the beginning of World War II 7,300 people in the city.
With the introduction of the Reformation in Labes 1537 the population was Protestant. The oldest preserved church in the city Labes covers the years 1647-1764; it was acquired in 2013 for the church directory location of the Evangelical Central Archives. 1927 passed in the city's two Protestant churches. A Roman Catholic minority was supervised by the pastor from Pomerania in the 19th century. In the years 1932-1937 she was in charge of the pastor and resistance fighters August Froehlich of Pomerania, from 1938, the support provided by the parish in Schivelbein.
After the conquest by the Soviet troops in March 1945, this destroyed the city largely by fires. Due to the westward shift of Poland's many displaced people from eastern Poland settled in place of the expelled German population in Łobez. After the takeover by the Polish administration, the city was renamed Łobez.
In Labes the origin of Labeser nativity play, which was brought in 1945 by refugees to northern Germany and is listed there regularly since 1973, is located.
List of mayors
Mayor from 1632 to 1945:
Mayor since 1989:
- Marek Romejko Jan Szafran, Halina Szymańska, Marek Romejko (2002-2006), Ryszard Sola ( since 2006)
Demographics
Attractions
- A landmark of Labes was the Roland monument to commemorate the 208 fallen Labeser the First World War. It was funded by private donations and erected 1925/1926 in a voluntary, free community work on the 100 -meter high monument mountain grove on wood.
- Before the cemetery of Łobez a memorial stone ( lapidary ) for the German archaeologist Otto Puchstein was inaugurated in 1993. Puchstein (1856-1911) was, inter alia, Excavation director in Baalbek.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Franz Andreas von Borcke (1693-1766), royal - Prussian lieutenant general and chief of Infantry Regiment No. 20
- Ferdinand Nemitz (1805-1886), German jurist, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, member of the Prussian House of Deputies
- Felix Genzmer (1856-1929), German architect
- Puchstein Otto (1856-1911), German classical archaeologist
- Walter Goehtz (1878-1946), German administrative officer, city mayors and Plathe Pommern
Gmina Łobez
The gmina ( urban and rural community) Łobez covers an area of 227 km ³. Home to more than 14,000 inhabitants.
Community structure
For urban and rural community Łobez include Soltysships ( sołectwo )
- Bełczna ( Neukirchen )
- Bonin ( Bonin )
- Dalno ( Lindenfelde )
- Dobieszewo ( Dübzow )
- Grabowo ( Grabow )
- Karwowo ( Karow )
- Klepnica ( Glietzig )
- Łobżany ( Labes A D)
- Meszne ( Wedderwill )
- Niegrzebia ( Negrepp )
- Poradz ( Muhledorf )
- Prusinowo ( Prütznow )
- Rożnowo Łobeskie ( Rosenow )
- Rynowo ( Rienow )
- Suliszewice ( Zülzefitz )
- Tarnovo ( Tarnow )
- Unimie ( Uncanny )
- Worowo ( Wurow )
- Wysiedle ( Woitzel )
- Zachelmie ( Löper village)
- Zagórzyce ( Saagen )
- Borzestowo ( Schonwalde )
In this, the villages are Budziszcze ( Karolinenhof ) Byszewo ( Büssow ) Kołdrąb (copper hammer ), Polakowo ( Dieckborn ) Pomorzany Przyborze ( Piepenhagen ) Rynowo - Kolonia ( Rienow ) Trzeszczyna ( Heinrichsfelde ) Zachełmie ( Löper village), Zakrzyce ( Philip Thal ) and Zdzisławice ( Christienhof ) integrated.
Partner communities
- Affing ( Germany ), since 1997, origin: " German - Polish reconciliation Cross" since 1994 in Aulzhausen
- Svalöv (Sweden), since 2000
- Kėdainiai (Lithuania ), since 2002
- Paikuse (Estonia), since 2003
- Wiek ( Germany ), since 2008
- Guca (Serbia ), since 2010
- Istra (Russia), since 2011