Strzelno

Strzelno ( German Strelno ) is a city in the powiat Mogileński the Kujawsko - Pomerania in Poland. It is located about 18 kilometers south of Inowrocław to the Gniezno Lake District (Pojezierze Gnieźnieńskie ).

History

A settlement has been demonstrated for the 11th century. In the 12th century, the voivode Piotr Włostowic founded a church there to Holy Cross. Perhaps in 1133 - as specified by January Dlugosz in his chronicle -, but rather the end of the 12th century, with the rotunda of the hl. Prokop built another church, which today represents one of the oldest Romanesque monuments in Poland. The place belonged first to the monastery of Canons Regular in Trzemeszno, then the Premonstratensian choir women there talked a monastery ( 1148-1838 ). At that time the church was built in 1216 dedicated to the Holy Trinity. 1231 Strzelno received city rights. With the First Partition of Poland in 1772 Strzelno fell to Prussia. 1837, the monastery was dissolved. Since 1887 Strelno experienced as the county seat ( until 1932 ) an economic boom to which also contributed the connection to the railway network in 1892. 1919 Strzelno was re- polish to the Greater Poland Uprising. During the German occupation in the Second World War many Poles were shot. The bodies were exhumed in 1944 and burned in a hurry.

Attractions

• Rotunda of the hl. Prokop. One of the largest surviving Romanesque churches in Poland. Of the various modifications and changes in style of past centuries the building in 1925 was largely cleaned up.
• Holy Trinity Church

Gmina

For urban and rural community Strzelno include the following localities:

Personalities

• Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931), American Nobel laureate in physics
• Jacobowski Ludwig (1868-1900), German poet, writer and journalist
• Stanisław Gadecki ( b. 1949 ), Archbishop of Poznan