Michał Drzymała

Michał Drzymała listen / i (* September 13, 1857 in the village and manor Zdroj at Gratz Gratz in the district, province of Posen, † April 25, 1937 in Grabowno ( Grabau ) in Miasteczko Krajeńskie ( Friedheim ), Poland)? Was a Polish peasant, which became a symbol of Polish inhabitants in the " struggle for land " in the Prussian provinces of Posen and West Prussia.

1904 Drzymała bought a plot of land in the village Pogradowitz ( Podgradowice, 1871-1919 Emperor litter), Circle Bomst, Posen Province and applied for a building permit for a new house. The Prussian authorities tried to prevent the construction project. The basis was the hearth law shortly before adopted, which should prevent the further settlement of non-local Poles in the Prussian provinces of Posen and West Prussia, by forbidding them to build a new fire ( cooking facilities and heating).

Drzymała first inhabited barn and pigsty, because there was not a residential building on his property. However, the authorities banned him to build there fireplaces. Then Drzymała bought a discarded, heated circus wagons and settled there with his family. To circumvent the building codes, he moved the car regularly slightly within the plot. This brought him a great deal of attention in the then three divided Poland. Soon, financed by donations of new caravan was purchased. After a few years of constant litigation Drzymała but had to capitulate and the property in 1909 to sell again. Of the donations, however, he could buy a yard plus residential building in a neighboring village, for in existing buildings found the fireplace Act does not apply. Later he left the province of Posen and moved to Galicia over.

His second car was taken to Krakow, 1910 issued in Kraków Rondell, and in 1922 sold for scrapping. Several replicas are later made ​​and each issued as authentic. Also, the rumor was circulated, the original car was destroyed in 1939 by the German Nazis.

After the First World War Drzymała was settled by the re-established Polish state in Grabowno / West Prussia and equipped with an honorary pension.

In honor Drzymałas the village Podgradowice was renamed after his death in Drzymalowo.