Witnica
Witnica ( German Vietz ) is a Polish city in the powiat Gorzowski (District Gorzów Wielkopolski ) of the Lubusz Voivodeship with about 13,000 inhabitants.
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Geographical location
It is located 20 kilometers north-east of Kuestrin in Warthebruch and 25 kilometers west of Gorzów Wielkopolski.
History
The village Vietz in Landsberger country is probably founded by the Templars. In 1261 the place came from the Order for possession of Mark Brandenburg. Margrave Otto IV gave anno 1300 the monastery Kolbatz various lands as a basis for the establishment of the subsidiary monastery sky Städt. With the secularization of the monastery in 1539 Vietz became the electoral office Village.
In the village on the old trade route (it was later Reichsstrasse 1 Aachen - Berlin - Königsberg ( Prussia), whose route here today voivodeship DW 132 follows ) of Kuestrin to Landsberg, whose inhabitants mainly by agriculture and the flow to the Warta were some water Müller resident. Middle of the 18th century, industrialization began to Vietz. 1747 was a hosiery and linen weaving. For the needs of the Prussian military a royal ironworks was built in 1753 with two blast furnaces, which initially mainly produced guns. 1842, the smelter was shut down and took after his sale in 1855 as an iron foundry and machine factory resumes production on.
The importance of the place grew with the construction of the Prussian Eastern Railway that ran through Vietz from 1857. The village has numerous different enterprises of mechanical engineering, wood processing and the production of building materials settled. Vietz in the district of Landsberg ( Warta ) was at that time the largest rural municipality of the province of Brandenburg.
Founded in 1873, Ludwig Hartmann, steam brick works, Vietz adOstbahn were in 1925, according to the Vietz Tageblatt, the largest brick works in the district of Frankfurt. Since 1935 Vietz is a city.
After the end of World War II, the city was taken over by the Potsdam Agreement in Polish administration and expelled the entire German population. Since then, the city bears the name Witnica.
Population Development
The importance of the community and its development to the small town were decisively influenced by the construction of the Prussian Eastern Railway and the construction of the National Highway 1 from Aachen to Königsberg, today in Poland voivodeship road 312 ( droga wojewódzka 132, the extension of the federal highway 1). On the one hand was working through the building itself in the region, on the other hand benefited Witnica later of this first-class transport links.
Community
The urban and rural commune ( gmina miejsko - wiejska ) Witnica covers a territory of 278 square kilometers on which 12,570 inhabitants. In addition to the city Witnica include the following 17 districts ( German name until 1945) with a mayor's office:
- Białcz ( Balz )
- Białczyk ( New Balz )
- Boguszyniec ( Brückendorf )
- Dąbroszyn ( Tamsel )
- Kamien Maly ( Stolberg in the Neumark )
- Kłopotowo (Protect worry)
- Krześniczka ( Wilkersdorf )
- Mosina ( Massin )
- Mościce ( Blumberg )
- Mościczki ( Blumberg break)
- Nowe Dzieduszyce ( New Diedersdorf )
- Nowiny Wielkie ( Döllensradung )
- Oksza ( Woxholländer )
- Pyrzany ( Pyrehne )
- Sosny ( Charlottenhof )
- Stare Dzieduszyce (Alt Diedersdorf )
- Świerkocin ( Ficht Werder )
Other towns are Tarnówek and Kamien Wielki (Great Pomerania ).
Culture
In the village there is the so-called Signpost Park. With exhibits from technology, nature and policy of the shared history of the Poles and Germans to be thought of. He recalled that exaggerated national pride of the people is cause many evils among peoples. The collector and actual creator of the park, Zbigniew Czarnuch, was honored for his unspectacular, persistent work for the Polish- German understanding of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe in October 2009 in Berlin with Georg Dehio Culture Award.