Drawsko Pomorskie
Drawsko Pomorskie | |
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UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 78-500 |
Area code | +48 94 |
Vehicle registration | ZDR |
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Website | http://www.drawsko.pl/ |
Drawsko Pomorskie [ˈdrafskɔ pɔˈmɔrskʲɛ] (until 1948 Polish: Drawsko; German: Dramburg) is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northwestern Poland. It is the administrative seat of Drawsko County and the urban-rural commune of Gmina Drawsko Pomorskie. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 11,292.[1] It is home to the Drawsko Training Ground, one of the largest training areas in Poland.
Geography
Located in the southeast of West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999) in the Pomerania region, Drawsko is situated within the Pomeranian Lakeland, the western spur of the Baltic Uplands. The town lies on the headwater of the Drawa River, a right tributary of the Noteć, west of an expansive woodland with the protected area of the Drawsko Landscape Park.
The regional capital Szczecin is about 100 km (62 mi) to the west. A large training area south of the town is frequently used in NATO exercises.
History
Medieval Poland
From the 7th century onwards
New March
At that time, the fortress of Drawsko had been held by Duke Przemysł I of Greater Poland, but after his death the settlement was also acquired by the Margraves of Brandenburg. They invited Premonstratensian monks from Belbuck (Białoboki) Abbey near Trzebiatów to found a monastery in their new territory. These plans failed, however, as the desired location was too far from Belbuck and the monks saw the wilderness as unsuitable. The Brandenburg margraves planned to expand upon a settlement already developing near the fortress of Drawsko. The Uckermark knights Arnold, Konrad and Johann von Goltz were granted the right to develop the settlement into a town mentioned as Drawenborch. It grew after the arrival of German colonists, allowing the margraves to grant it Magdeburg city rights in 1297.
When the Ascanian dynasty became extinct in 1320, the colonisation efforts in the Neumark region abated. Nevertheless, to promote the further development of the newly established town of Dramburg, the
From 1373 the New March was part of the
In 1537 the former
Province of Pomerania
Dramburg became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. With the reorganization of the Prussian provinces in 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, Dramburg left the Neumark region and in 1818 became the seat of Landkreis Dramburg in the Regierungsbezirk of Köslin within the Prussian Province of Pomerania. Dramburg became part of the German Empire after the 1871 unification of Germany.
In 1877 the Pommersche Zentralbahn (Pomeranian Central Railway) became connected to the town, which was also connected in 1896 to the Saatziger Kleinbahnnetz (Szadzko District railroad network). Dramburg's access to the railroads led to the establishment of wood and textile industries. This led the Pommersche Saatzucht Gesellschaft based in Stettin (Szczecin) to use the Dramburg region as a testing area for its plant breeding experiments.
After
Post-war Poland
Polish authorities began administering the town on March 6, 1945. The town became part of Poland, under a Soviet-installed
The town, initially named Drawsko, was renamed Drawsko Pomorskie by adding the adjective Pomorskie (meaning Pomeranian or in Pomerania) in 1948 to distinguish it from other Polish settlements of the same name. It was the administrative seat of a powiat until 1975. After the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998, Drawsko became a county seat again in 1999.
Population
Notable people
- Karl Christoph von der Goltz (1707–1761) a lieutenant general in the Prussian army during the reign of Frederick the Great
- Hans Wolter (1911–1978) a German physicist who worked with mirrors
- Małgorzata Rohde (born 1962) a Polish politician
- Mariusz Rumak (born 1977) a Polish football manager
- Krystian Zalewski (born 1989) a Polish distance runner in the 3000 metres steeplechase, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics
International relations
Drawsko Pomorskie is
- Bad Bramstedt, Germany
- Strasburg (Uckermark), Germany
- Złocieniec, Poland
References
- ^ a b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 2022-08-01. Data for territorial unit 3203024.
- ^ Hupp, Otto: Königreich Preussen. Wappen der Städte, Flecken und Dörfer. Reprint von 1896 und 1898. Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen, Bonn, 1993.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 55.
External links
- Official website (in Polish)
- Portal of Drawsko Pomorskie (in Polish)
- Portal (in Polish)
- Jewish Community in Drawsko Pomorskie on Virtual Shtetl