Wejherowo
Wejherowo ( German Neustadt in West Prussia, formerly Weyer Frey; Kashubian Wejrowò ) is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.
The Gmina Wejherowo is a rural community, which has its headquarters in Wejherowo to the city itself but not heard.
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 partnerships
- 4.1 Structures
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 personalities who were active in the city
- 6.1 localities
- 6.2 Monument and mass graves
- 7.1 Literature
- 7.2 External links
- 7.3 footnotes
Geography
Geographical location
The town is near the Baltic Sea near Gdansk Bay. After Gdynia is about 20 km. The nearest airport is 40 km away Lech Walesa Airport, Gdansk.
Boroughs
The city Wejherowo consists of the following districts:
History
From 1308 to 1466 belonged to the countryside for German Order State of Prussia, and then came in the division to the western part of Prussia, later also known as Polish Prussia and under the protection of the Polish crown. 1576 came the settlement Schmechau, near the later city, under the rule of Puck Starosten Ernst v. pond ( from the well-known since 1234 noble family of pond ).
On May 28, 1643 voivode of Malbork Jakob Weiher founded the eponymous settlement Weyer Frey, near the village pond free Schmechau and built in the same year the Church of the Holy Trinity. During the siege of Smolensk 1633/34 Jacob had vowed v. pond to build two churches, if he should survive the siege. The second church was the Church of St. Anne, which was built from 1648 to 1651. In addition, pond erected Stations of the Cross and Calvary with 19 chapels, whose number later increased to 26. In these years also came Franciscan ( OFM). Free pond became a famous place of pilgrimage.
On January 13, 1650, the city of John II Casimir became a town on the Prussian Kulm law. She was thus the only town founded by a private individual in Pomerania, apart from Topolno, which lost its city charter again soon. In the same year, the town hall was built, which was destroyed several times but later. End of the 17th century, the town was owned by the imperial princes Radziwill family and subsequently the Sobieski, among them King John III. Sobieski. Later, the Count Przebendowski owner and subsequently the British Consul in Danzig, Alexander Gibson.
1723, named after the founder place Weiher Free, formerly also listed Weyer Frey Scriptorum Prutenicorum the Prussian historian David Brown.
1772 the place at the time of the first Partition of Poland to the Kingdom of Prussia, and received the name Neustadt. 1790 sold the consul the city to the Keyserling family.
1818 Neustadt seat of a separate Prussian administrative district of Neustadt (West Prussia ). During this period, the share of the German population increased to almost 50 % of ( in the Prussian census of 1905 gave 27,358 residents Kashubian and 27 048 German as mother tongue ). 1870 the city was connected to the railway network and was a direct connection to Gdansk and Szczecin.
After the monastery school was founded by Franciscan Gegenreformaten 1651 to Neustadt was received in 1826, a Progymnasium was opened in 1857 in the city, which was expanded in 1861 to a full high school.
After the end of the First World War the place as the larger part of West Prussia, was given by the Treaty of Versailles in January 1920, Poland. He was named Wejherowo. 1921 there appeared the newspaper "Gazeta Kaszubska " ( newspaper Kashubia ).
In September 1939, the city was occupied by the Wehrmacht and incorporated as a Town back into the German Reich. In the city more replacement troops of the Wehrmacht were housed from 1940. During the period of occupation, the Polish underground organization Gryf Pomorski was active in the area.
On 12 March 1945, the Red Army occupied the city and gave them into Polish administration. In an administrative reform in 1975, the city lost its seat as powiat, but received him with a renewed reform 1999.
Population Development
Policy
Partnerships
- Tyresö (Sweden)
Culture and sights
Wejherowo calls himself the " spiritual capital of the Kashubian ". Destination of the pilgrimage is the patron saint Wejherowos and its surroundings, the Mother of God, the holy image was crowned by Pope John Paul II in 1999.
Structures
- Calvary
- The castle of the Keyserling family
- The Town Hall, which was built in 1650, but after the destruction was given its present architecture in 1908
- The Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, which was built in 1643 and until 1972 was rebuilt many times
- The monastery church of St. Anna ( 17th century ), whose interiors from the 18th century comes
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ernst Danz (1822-1905), German educator and conservationist
- Paul Peter Rhode (1871-1945), American Catholic priest, Bishop of Green Bay
- Hubert Skrzypczak (* 1943), European champion in boxing
- Jerzy Budnik (* 1951), politician
- Miroslaw Bork ( born 1956 ), Polish film director
- Dorota Masłowska ( b. 1983 ), Polish writer
- Johanna Kedzierski (* 1984), German track and field athlete
- Marta Jeschke ( born 1986 ), Polish athlete
Personalities who were active in the city
- Jakob Weiher, founded in 1643, the city Weyer Frey ( Weiher free )
- Matthew Praetorius (* around 1635 probably in Memel, † in 1704 to Weyherststadt ), a Protestant minister, and later a Catholic priest, historian and ethnographer
- Stanislaus Maronski (1825-1907), historian, worked from 1857 to 1872 as a high school teacher in New Town
- Clara Quandt (1841-1919), German writer, initiated in 1869 in Neustadt a private institution of higher learning for girls
- Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860-1940), German engineer and inventor who attended from 1880 to 1882 the Royal Grammar School in Neustadt and began here with practical experiments of telephony
- Ottomar writer (1889-1955), German politician and state president of the Memel, grew up in New Town
Gmina Wejherowo
Towns
For the rural municipality with 22,712 inhabitants Wejherowo ( June 30, 2013) include the following villages:
Monument and mass graves
A twelve-meter- tall monument on the northern border community near Wielka Piaśnica on the main road between Wejherowo and Krokowa recalls the massacre of Piaśnica from September 1939.