Trzcianka
Trzcianka [ ʧʨanka ] ( German Schönlanke ) is a town with 16,776 inhabitants in Poland. It is located on beautiful Lankans Mühlenfließ 22 km southwest of Pila ( Pila ) and belongs to the powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki, Greater Poland Voivodeship to. Trzcianka is the seat of city and rural community with a total of 24,000 inhabitants.
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History
The first recorded settlement at the site of the present city, 8 km west of the networks, dates back to 1245th The place has since not populated consistently, in documents can be Schönlanke 1565 show as it with the manors Czarnikau and Schloppe to the Voivode was pledged by Rawa. 1581, the village was owned by the Hedwig Charnkowska and 1586 there was talk of a new an attached village that grew into a market town. In the 17th century the city grew and received in 1671 by Michael I. the privilege for four years markets. Schönlanke, which was designated as a town since 1679, has been collected on March 3, 1731 by Augustus II the city with Magdeburg rights.
Above all, the cloth -making trade, the guild privilege dates back to 1679, determined the economic development of the city, next to the village Schönlanke and Vorwerk still existed. 1762, the city was enlarged, it was the New Town. 1764 began the construction of a second dyeing. 1773 lived in Schönlanke 216 clothier, and the city had become the center of the cloth-making on the networks. In the village Schönlanke was in 1775 a Protestant church, in the town was gepfarrt.
Since 1739 Jews settled in Schönlanke, where here the right to practice their faith was granted. They made the city a hub of the wool trade.
In the First Partition of Poland came Schönlanke 1772 to Prussia. In the period 1807-1815 the city was part of the Duchy of Warsaw and came to the resolution to the Prussian province of Posen.
In the first third of the 19th century began a decline of the cloth making. In 1816 more than 200 looms operated so meant the 1822 Russia imposed by punitive tariffs on the import of textiles for most of them to shut down. Even sticking to the time-honored crafting and guild coercion led to the destruction against the competition of mechanical looms in the western parts of the country. The impoverished city, and many of the draper champion wandered into the then Russian cities like Łódź or Kiev. 1888 approved the guild of drapers and weavers to Schönlanke their resolution.
After 1829, the Protestant village church was burned to the ground, took place in the years 1843 to 1847 the construction of a neo-classical church on the market square of the city, which was largely financed by Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
The management of the large fiscal forests erected around the city forestry departments Schönlanke and Behle had its seat in Schönlanke.
The Eastern Railway inaugurated in 1851 brought the city economic development. 1879 Schönlanke seat of a district court. The Jewish community build a synagogue in 1883. 1905 Village and Vorwerk were incorporated into the city Schönlanke. Between 1914 and 1916 the Catholic church in the city was rebuilt in neo-baroque style.
Because of the forest wealth wood processing companies settled in the city. In Schönlanke produced seven sawmills, next there were the same number of cigar and cigarette factories and a matzo factory.
During the first Polish Usurpantenaufstandes under Wojciech Korfanty it came to 1919 battles near the town, which supported the German border guards with their vigilante.
Schönlanke, which had belonged to the county Czarnikau since 1818, in 1920 the county seat of the newly established networks circle in the 1921/1922 newly created Prussian Province of Posen- West Prussia border.
As on January 27, 1945, the city was occupied by the Red Army, it came after the end of hostilities, looting and arson. Parts of the market with the Protestant church, the main street and the southern suburb were destroyed.
After the end of World War II, the city was placed under Polish administration and was named Trzcianka. Until 1975 the city was the seat of a Powiats.
Population Development
Twin Cities
Trzcianka maintains partnerships with cities
- Berwick -upon- Tweed in Northumberland, United Kingdom
- Duszniki Zdrój in Lower Silesia, Poland
- Husum in Schleswig -Holstein, Germany
- Taught in Lower Saxony, Germany
Sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Vanselow (1877-1959), editor, reformer and writer
- Max Raphael (1889-1952), art historian and philosopher, wrote after his birthplace under the pseudonym MR Schonlank
- Alfred Jante (1908-1985), professor of Automotive Engineers
- Gerhard Stöck (1910-1985), Olympic champion
- Günter Graf ( b. 1941 ), German politician ( SPD), Member of the German Bundestag
Gmina Trzcianka
The urban and rural community Trzcianka covers an area of 375.33 km ² with 24,000 inhabitants. Their territory is located between the border of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship to the northwest and the networks in the Southeast.
Neighboring communities of Gmina Trzcianka are:
- Czarnków ( Czarnikau ) and Wieleń ( Filehne ) in the powiat Czamkowsko - Trzcianecki
- Szydłowo (Great Wittenberg) and Ujście ( ( German ) Ush ) in the powiat Pilski ( Schneidemühl ) and
- Człopa ( Schloppe ) and Wałcz ( German crown) in Walęcki powiat ( county German crown ) (already in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship location ).
To Gmina Trzcianka include - alongside the city Trzcianka - following localities ( * = mayor's office ):