Åšwiecie
Świecie [ ɕf ɛtɕɛ ʲ ] ( German Schwetz on the Vistula ) is a city with a seat of the same urban and rural community in the Polish province of Kujawy. She is also the administrative seat of Powiats Święcki. The city has about 25,600, the Gmina 33 053 inhabitants.
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 Municipality arrangement
- 3.3 Sons and daughters of the area of Gmina
Geography
Świecie located at the junction of Wda (German black water) in the Vistula River about 40 km north of Bydgoszcz, and 105 km south of Danzig (as the crow flies).
City Świecie ( Schwetz )
History
The place was called in earlier times Swet is, its foundation and its name Swedish emigrants owe, probably at the beginning of the 10th century fled to Prussia and settled on both banks of the Vistula as colonists. 1198 here Mary's Church was consecrated. In the 12-13. Century was Świecie center of a Pomeranian part of the Principality Samborid. A castle existed here at the end of the 12th century as the seat of the Duke Pomoranian, Grimislaus, strategically located near the river black water just before its confluence with the Vistula. 1309, the city was conquered by the Teutonic Knights. 1338 Świecie was raised right to the city according to Kulm. 1410 suffered the German Order in the Battle of Tannenberg ( Grunwald ) a serious defeat by the united army of Poles and Lithuanians. As the order of the following Siege of Malbork but withstood the defeat had no territorial impact in Pomerania. Only after the revolt of the Prussian estates against the Order in 1440, which led to the outbreak of the Thirteen Years' War ( 1453-1466 ), the Second Peace of Thorn was closed in Thorn on October 19, 1466. He brought Poland profit of Pomerania, the but not incorporated, but was attached to the crown of Poland in a non-legally clearly defined Union. With the Lublin Union of 1569, the area was directly subordinate to the Polish crown.
In the First Partition of Poland, 1772, Świecie fell to the Kingdom of Prussia, where it remained until 1920. After a severe flood in 1858 the town was moved to a slightly elevated position. Economic development has been greatly improved by connecting to the railway network in 1888. After the First World War Świecie came to Poland again and remained the seat of the county, founded in 1818. This was dissolved in 1975, but established by the administrative reform in Poland 1999.
After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the Danzig- West Prussia was born, belonged to the then city Schwetz ( Świecie ). With the end of World War II Schwetz was a Polish city.
Demographics
Attractions
- German Order of castle from the 14th century
- Parish Church
- Fortifications
- Former Bernardine Monastery
- Neo-Gothic St. Andrzej Bobola Church
- Town Hall of 1879
- Town houses
Sons and daughters of the town
- Leopold von Winter ( born January 23, 1823 in Schwetz ), German civil servant, longtime mayor of Danzig († 1893)
- Eduard Rochlitz ( born August 2, 1829 in Schwetz ), German engineer and university teachers († 1904)
- Oskar Cassel ( born June 4, 1849 in Schwetz ), German politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives and Chairman of the Association of German Jews († 1923)
- Bernhard Schnackenburgallee ( born July 5, 1867 in Schwetz ), mayor of Altona († 1924)
- Bruno Mondi ( born September 30, 1903 in Schwetz ), German cameraman († 1991)
- Nicholas Christoph von Halem ( born March 15, 1905 in Schwetz ), German jurist, businessman, Nazi resistance fighter († 1944)
- Wieslaw Śmigiel ( born January 3, 1969 in Świecie ), Polish bishop
Associated with the city of personalities
- Heinrich von Plauen the Elder (1370-1429), 1407-1410 Commander of Schwetz
- Alfred Beyer (1885-1961), 1912-1919 resident physician in the Provincial medical and nursing home Schwetz
Gmina Świecie
General
The urban and rural municipality covers an area of 174.81 km ² and recorded 33 053 inhabitants.
Community structure
( Place names, which are provided with an *, call a mayor's office ):
Sons and daughters in the field of Gmina
- Oskar Loerke ( born March 13, 1884 in boys, Polish today: Wiag ), German poet of the Expressionism († 1941)
- Paul Boldt ( born December 31, 1885 in Christfelde, Polish today: Chrystkowo ), German poet († 1921)