Lubusz Voivodeship
The Lebus (Polish: województwo lubuskie ) Province is one of the 16 regions into which the Republic of Poland is divided. It is bordered to the west by the German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, on the east by Great Poland and mainly comprises the former Brandenburg Neumark ( East Brandenburg ) and small parts of the northern Lower Silesia, the eastern Lower Lusatia and parts of the former border Posen- West Prussia. The main cities of the region are Gorzów Wielkopolski ( Landsberg on the Warta River ) as the seat of the voivode appointed by the central government, which is responsible for the management of central Warsaw allocated finances for the Interior Ministry and police, and Zielona Góra ( Grünberg ) as the seat of Woiwodschaftsmarschalls, its government and parliament ( Sejmik ).
- 4.1 Largest cities
- 4.2 Nachbarwoiwodschaften
- 4.3 rivers
- 6.1 Marine
- 6.2 Railway
- 6.3 street
- 7.1 External links
- 7.2 footnotes
History
The naming of the province refers to the historical, situated on both sides of the Oder country Lebus. The city of Lubusz is located on the west bank of the Oder in Germany, since she was the appropriation by Bolesław the Brave until the middle of the 13th century Polish prince and bishop's seat. After that, most of the present-day province belonged until 1945 to the Mark Brandenburg. The province was formed in 1999 as part of the administrative reform of the union of the provinces Gorzów Wielkopolski ( Landsberg on the Warta River ), Zielona Góra ( Grünberg ) as well as a small part of the Leszno ( Lissa ) Province.
Coat of arms
Description: red and green split, the front pole placed at the gap a gold -winning, gold confess änderter and reinforced with golden clover stems covered silver eagle and the rear two golden six-pointed star.
Administrative divisions
The Lubusz Voivodeship is divided into twelve districts, the provincial capitals Gorzów Wielkopolski ( Gorzów Wielkopolski. ) And Zielona Góra remain acyclic. The counties named after them they do not belong to themselves.
Independent Cities
Counties
(Population and area on June 30, 2008)
Geography
Largest cities
The two cities Landsberg and Green Mountain are approximately 120,000 residents each, the only large cities of Lebus. The then following cities have just one- third of this population figures.
See also: List of cities in the Lubusz Voivodeship
Nachbarwoiwodschaften
The area of the province belongs completely to the catchment area of the Oder.
- Odra (Oder) Warta ( Warta ) Noteć ( networks)
- Lubsza ( Lubst )
Economy
Expressed in comparison with the EU GDP in purchasing power standards reached the province in 2006 an index of 46.5 (EU-27 = 100). The unemployment rate in 2004 was 23.2 %. By December 2009, it had fallen to 15.9 percent.
Traffic
Shipping
Inland waterways:
- Or,
- Warta,
- Networks,
- Lusatian Neisse from Guben.
Railway
By Woiwodschaftsgebiet extend the railway lines Berlin -Warsaw, Stettin (Szczecin) -Breslau ( Wrocław) and Stettin, Posen ( Poznań). The former Prussian Eastern Railway comes only regional importance in relation Kuestrin ( Kostrzyn nad Odra ) Gorzow Wielkopolski to - Krzyż.
The railway network has a length of 985 kilometers, of which 329 km are electrified.
Road
The main traffic artery of the province, to which the two main cities are connected, the European Route 65 ( Polish country road 3 ) connecting Scandinavia with South Eastern Europe.
Right through the province leads the major European Route 30 ( Polish national road 2) of Cork in the Republic of Ireland to Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany (including Berlin ) to Warsaw and Eastern Europe (Minsk - Moscow), to which none of the two biggest cities is directly connected. The city Świebodzin is the most important transport hub of the region, where the two roads intersect Europe.
The road network has a length of approximately 8,000 kilometers.