Lubsko

Lubsko [' lupskɔ ] ( German: Sommerfeld) is a city in western Poland, located in the district of Lubusz Voivodeship Zary at the Lubsza (German Lubst / Lubis ).

History

The finds from the period of the Lusatian culture indicate that the environment of the present city was inhabited during this prehistoric period.

The settlement in the modern era is, in the opinion of the urban chroniclers from the 17th century, Johann Möller, down to the first half of the 9th century back and is dated to the year 840. The place Sommerfeld was mentioned for the first time in a privilege to build a castle of Margrave Henry I the Elder in 1106 in a document. He himself was no longer alive at this time, however. When the document is apparently a forgery to substantiate the claims to the Mark Lausitz within the noble family of Wettin.

The town charter in 1283 by the margrave Henry III. awarded based on the Magdeburg law. The right of coinage, King Wenceslas IV of the City 1411. Since 1482 Sommerfeld belonged to Brandenburg. On October 16, 1627 and the year after Wallenstein visited the city. As a squire at Castle Sommerfeld is mentioned by Beerfelde 1793, the Knights of St. John George Frederick. His descendants built the castle in 1840 and 1945 into the existing shape to.

In the course of the Prussian administrative reform of 1815, Sommerfeld was incorporated into the Brandenburg Kreis Crossen and was until its dissolution in 1945 always the largest city in the county. 1875 had 10,235 inhabitants Sommerfeld, in 1939 10,578. Until 30 September 1928, the Good Sommerfeld existed as a separate legal entity, in 1910 this had about 100 inhabitants.

The first steam engine was put into operation in 1835, built the first factory chimney in the same year. On September 1, 1846 Sommerfeld was connected to the railway line Berlin -Breslau. Later chain by Sommerfeld from other railway lines by Crossen and to white water so that the city became an important railway junction. 1857 took a gas plant to operate on, and 1863 water pipes were laid. 1866 remained Paul von Hindenburg in Sommerfeld, and lived in what was then Morgenstraße 23 With Gasglühlicht street lighting was introduced in 1896.

During World War II, some houses were destroyed. As a result of the Potsdam Conference Sommerfeld in 1945 came under Polish administration. The inhabitants were expelled from the now renamed Lubsko place and replaced by Poles.

Municipality ( gmina Lubsko )

For urban and rural community Lubsko ( Gmina miejsko - wiejska ) belong the localities ( German name ) with mayor's office ( sołectwo ):

  • Białków ( Belkau )
  • Żarski Chelm ( Kulm )
  • Chocicz ( Herms Walde )
  • Chocimek ( Kotsemke, 1937-1945 bush willow)
  • Dąbrowa ( Dubrow, 1937-1945 Oak Hagen)
  • Dłużek ( Dolzig )
  • Górzyn ( Göhren )
  • Grabków ( Grabków )
  • Kałek ( limes )
  • Lutol ( Marktleuthen )
  • Mierków (Note )
  • Mokra ( Muckrow )
  • Osiek ( Ossig )
  • Raszyn ( Räschen )
  • Stara Woda ( Backwater )
  • Tuchola Żarska ( Tauchel )
  • Tymienice ( Tamnitz )
  • Ziębikowo ( Seebigau )

Furthermore, there are the following places without mayor's office:

  • Dłużek - Kolonia
  • Tarnów
  • Gareja ( Garivorwerk )
  • Gozdno ( Heidehäuser )
  • Janowice (small Jänowitz, 1937-1945 Jahn field)
  • Nowiniec ( Neumühlestrasse )
  • Małowice ( Mallwitz )

Attractions

  • Renaissance Town Hall
  • St. Mary's Visitation Church
  • Castle
  • Constable tower

Castle

Castle Sommerfeld around 1860, Collection Alexander Duncker

Twin Cities

  • Brody, Poland
  • Forst, Germany
  • Helsinge, Denmark
  • Vlotho, Germany

Personalities

  • Alfred Adolph (* 1895 in Sommerfeld), German politician ( KPD)
  • John Aesticampianus (* 1457 in Sommerfeld ), called Rhagius, Sorbian theologian and humanist
  • Max von Boehn, ( born August 16, 1850 February 18, 1921 in Castle Sommerfeld)
  • Joanna Brodzik ( born January 11, 1973 in Lubsko ( Sommerfeld) ), Polish actress
  • Gerhard Domagk (1895-1964), Nobel Laureate, visited in summer field school
  • Ewelina Flinta ( born October 24, 1979 in Lubsko ( Sommerfeld) ), Polish singer
  • Erich Friedrich (1901-1971), German politician ( NSDAP)
  • Gottfried Traugott Gallus (* 1762 in Sommerfeld), German theologian and local historian
  • John Charles Augustus Eugene Alfred Goldscheider (1858-1935), physician
  • Paul Goldscheider (* July 14, 1854 in Sommerfeld, † after 1906 ), writer
  • Ludwig August Kähler ( born March 6, 1775 in Sommerfeld), German theologian and writer
  • Adolf Eduard Franz Matthes ( born May 6, 1838 in Sommerfeld), writer
  • Siegfried Polack (1899 in Sommerfeld, † 1944), German politician ( NSDAP)
  • Gerhard Schulz (1924-2004), German historian
  • Auguste Viktoria (* 1858 in Castle Dolzig ( Dłużek ), part of Lubsko ), wife of the last German Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Eduard Vogel von Falkenstein († April 6, 1885 at Schloss Dolzig ), Prussian general
  • Jerzy Kaczmarek ( born January 8, 1948 in Lubsko ), Polish fencer and Olympic champion (1972 )
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