Luboń
Luboń [' lubɔɲ ] ( German Luban, 1939-1943 Lobau ) is a city in the powiat Poznański in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is the seat of the homonymous municipality ( gmina miejska ).
- 2.1 Luboń
- 2.2 Żabikowo
- 2.3 Lasek
- 2.4 1954 to today
Geography
Luboń is 7.5 km south-west of Poznan on the Warta River. Both cities are fused together so that visually emerges no demarcation.
Districts
History
Luboń
The first written mention dates from the Luban 1296.
1719 60 German settlers from the Archdiocese of Bamberg were settled in Lubon.
The German entrepreneur Moritz milk acquired in 1907 in the small village of a piece of land to build on it from 1910 to 1912 a chemical plant for the production of artificial fertilizers. With a production capacity of 120 tons 00 superphosphate per year, the factory was one of the most modern fertilizer production enterprises of the time. The Berlin architect Hans Poelzig designed the factory building including a plant belonging to the working class neighborhood. The chemical plant Luban put up in the 1920s, one of the best known examples of a new industrial architecture dar. Today only scant remains of the plant. When, after the end of World War II, the hitherto belonging to the German Empire province of Posen became part of the newly formed Polish Republic, bought in 1920, the Polish fertilizer producer Roman May the factory.
1942 under the German occupation of the city limits of Posen a labor camp was set up to build the autobahn in Luboń. In the course of a planned by the Nazis Germanization of the site was temporarily renamed Lobau.
Żabikowo
The first mention of the village dates from the year 1283. 1942 a labor camp was set up to build the autobahn in Żabikowo also.
Lasek
The village was founded in 1756.
1954 to today
The 1954 city Luboń was formed by the merger of the villages Lasek, Stary Luboń and Żabikowo.
From 1975-1998 the city belonged to the Province of Posen.