Słońsk
Słońsk ( German Sonnenburg ) is a powiat to Sulęciński in the Lubusz Voivodeship (Poland ) belonging to the village ( town until 1947 ). Słońsk is also the seat of the rural community Słońsk. It lies in the Warta valley, south of the river and about 15 kilometers east of Kuestrin.
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History
Sonnenburg was first documented in 1295. The Knights Templar had in the city a religious house. 1312, the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Bishop of Lebus were named as joint owner. Henning and Arnold of Uechtenhagen who had received Sonnenburg as fiefs, built in 1341, the first sun 's Palace. From the 15th century to the Sonnenburg's history is closely connected with the Order of St. John, which settlement and castle 1426 Bohemian groschen for 9000 by Margrave Frederick I had acquired from Brandenburg. The castle was the seat of the Lord Master of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg, which was relatively independently within the Order of St. John. The Order did much for the development of Sonnenburg. 1474 to 1522, built a new church and the Knights from 1545 to 1564 a new castle.
1538 joined Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg, on the Lutheran doctrine. The Bailiwick of Brandenburg followed him in and kept a lot of their possessions. During the Thirty Years War, the castle and the Order of the place have been badly damaged. In the years 1662 to 1667 was John Maurice of Nassau- Siegen, who was appointed in 1652 to the Lord Master of the Order, to build a new residential palace. The architect was the Dutchman Cornelis Ryckwaert.
Until the secularization in 1811 Sonnenburg remained under the rule of the Order. After 1815, the place is a part of the district Sternberg was then ( after the partition of 1873 County Oststernberg ). The castle was built after the re- establishment of the Protestant Knights Hospitaller back seat of the Lord Master and remained until 1945, in the possession of the Order.
1933, the former prison was converted into a concentration camp Sonnenburg, which existed until 1945.
After the Second World War, the city was renamed in Słońsk. Many buildings, including the St. John's hospital were demolished in order to obtain building materials for the reconstruction of Warsaw. The castle fell in 1976 of deliberate arson victim and dominated until now as a ruin of the cityscape.
Municipality ( gmina Słońsk )
A third of the municipality is part of the National Park Warta Estuary, one of the largest bird sanctuaries in Europe. Besides the town itself Słońsk are ten more places ( German name until 1945) to the municipality, namely:
- Budzigniew ( Hampshire)
- Chartow ( Gartow )
- Głuchowo ( Woxfelde )
- Grodzisk ( Freiberg )
- Jamno (Jamaica )
- Lemierzyce (Alt Limmritz )
- Lemierzycko ( New Limmritz )
- Ownice ( Ögnitz )
- Polne ( of Pennsylvania )
- Przyborów ( Priebrow )
Twinning
Office Schlaubetal (Brandenburg)
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Knopke Andreas ( Andreas Knöpken, * 1468 in Sonnenburg ), theologian and reformer Rigas
- Christian Friedrich Schwartz, (including Christian Frederick ( h ) S ( ch) was (t ) z * 1726 Sonnenburg ), missionary in India
- Hans Eberhard Buchholz, ( born 1933 in Sonnenburg ), 1967-1997 Director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Research at the Federal Agricultural Research Centre
Personalities who worked in the city
- William Bacon (1861-1925), writer, poet, evangelical pastor and educator, chaplain in Sonnenburg