Trzciel
Trzciel ( German Tirschtiegel ) is a Polish city in the Lubusz Voivodeship, Circle Międzyrzecz, located at the Obra with about 2,000 inhabitants. She is also seat of the urban and rural community.
History
First mentioned was the place in the year 1307. The Slavic name of the town derives from the Old Polish word trzcielina, which means as much as reed stems. 1394 Before Trzciel received city rights. First, the city developed on the right bank of Obra ( Stary Trzciel ), since the 18th century came on the left bank Nowy Trzciel it. Originally belonging to the Polish-Lithuanian state, the city fell to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 to Prussia. The two locations were combined only in 1888. They belonged to the circle of Meseritz, which was in the province of Posen, in 1920 in the province of Posen- West Prussia border. In the New Town to Protestant religious refugees had settled in Silesia. The city was known for its hop-growing and basket makers craft.
As a result of the Versailles Treaty at the eastern edge runs from Tirschtiegel line Bentschen - Birnbaum 1920 was beaten to the newly created Polish Republic. The border ran in the room Tirschtiegel about three meters to the west adjacent to the roadbed. That left the place Tirschtiegel for the most part in Germany, however, the train station, some outworks and a cemetery were located in Poland. The new boundary was also shared a house, this motif of the "house in two countries " was shown in the 1920s on postcards. Due to this demarcation was made in 1929 by the local railway -AG Tirschtiegel - Dürrlettel a rail link to the west.
At the beginning of World War II to a labor camp for Jews was established in the city.
In the summer of 1944, the Hitler Youth, the system of a very extensive system of protecting and trenches to defend against the expected next major offensive of the Red Army began under the leadership of the Wehrmacht in the room Tirschtiegel. In particular, north of Tirschtiegel in the Obra chain of lakes this grave system is still recognizable today. In the fighting in January 1945 this grave system and the Obra was indeed a so-called Tirschtiegel bars in the Wehrmacht report mention, but it has due to snow drifts and barely existent soldiers to its occupation gained no military significance. The advance of the Red Army went away in high speed over Tirschtiegel and Tirschtiegel bars.
After the city had been occupied in 1945 by the Red Army, it was a short time later placed under Polish administration. The German inhabitants were expelled in several stages.
Attractions
- Neo-Gothic St. Adalbert Parish Church ( Kościół Sw. Wojciecha )
- Town houses
- During World War II devastated Jewish cemetery; the former synagogue is now the tool shed of the fire department.
Personalities
- The writer Anna Louisa Karsch grew up in the place ( 1728-1732 ).
- Herybert Menzel (found in 1945 in Tirschtiegel ), NS- poet
- Lothar Müller- Nedebock (1929-1990), a Lutheran clergyman, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Natal- Transvaal ), born in Tirschtiegel
- Heinrich Rau ( 1879 -ca. , 1960 ), socialist politician, born in Tirschtiegel
- Klaus Zachert (1942-2011), German politician ( SPD), who was born in Tirschtiegel
Municipality ( gmina Trzciel )
For urban and rural community Trzciel next to the city Trzciel the localities include ( German name until 1945):
- BIELEN (white sand)
- Brójce ( Brätz )
- Chociszewo ( Choczeschowo, Kutschkau )
- Jasieniec ( ash wood )
- Lutol Mokry ( Naßlettel )
- Lutol Suchy ( Dürrlettel )
- Łagowiec ( Lagowitz )
- Panowice ( Panwitz, Central Vorwerk )
- Rybojady ( Rybojadel, Hoffmannsthal )
- Siercz ( Schierzig )
- Sierczynek ( Schierzighauland )
- Smolniki
- Stary Dwór ( Altenhof )
- Świdwowiec (birch Horst )
- Żydowo (Elise field )
Twin Cities
- Asendorf, Germany since 1993
- Falkenberg, Germany since 2000