Pelplin

Coordinates: 53°55′41″N 18°41′52″E / 53.92806°N 18.69778°E / 53.92806; 18.69778
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Pelplin
Pelplin Cathedral
Cathedral interior
Pelplin Abbey
Seminary
Collegium Marianum
  • From top, left to right: Pelplin Cathedral
  • Cathedral interior
  • Pelplin Abbey
  • Seminary
  • Collegium Marianum
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
83-130
Vehicle registrationGTC
Websitehttp://www.pelplin.pl

Pelplin (pronounced

Pomeranian Voivodship
. Population: 8,320 (2009).

Pelplin is located in the ethnocultural region of

Pelplin Abbey is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pelplin. The cathedral complex, with the abbey, theological seminary, Corpus Christi church, Episcopal Palace and Park, etc. is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland, as one of the most precious Polish heritage sites of its kind.[2]

Geographical location

Pelplin lies in a valley on both sides of river

above sea level
at the lowlands of the Vistula in the east and 86 metres (282 feet) above sea level at 'Czubatka' hill in the west.

History

Pelplin Cathedral, cathedral of the former monastery of the Cistercians (1274–1819)

Archaeological findings have revealed that human settlements existed in the region of the town already during the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.

The history of Pelplin is tightly interwoven with the history of the

Monastery of Pelplin, which according to the monastery's chronicle was founded in 1274 by Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania
. The monastery of Pelplin had a forerunner in the monastery of the Cistercians in Pogódki located at the upper course of the Wierzyca, which had been founded in 1258 by Sambor II, Duke of Pomerania. In 1276 the monks, which had come from the Monastery of Doberan in Mecklenburg to Pogódki, began to transfer their monastery to Pelplin.

From Pelplin, the German monks organized an extensive settlement campaign. They brought in dispossessed farmers and craftsmen and founded a number of villages in the area. The initiative came from Duke Sambor II, who wanted to compensate population losses of the past, which had occurred because of wars with Pomeralia's neighbours, the Kingdom of Poland in the south and the Old Prussians in the east.

John Paul II
Hill)

The monks also began to build an impressive Gothic cathedral, now the

Pelplin Abbey
, is recognized as one of the most important examples of sacral architecture in the Vistula region.

As far as matters concerning the church were concerned, the region of Pelplin was at that time subordinated to the administration of the Diocese of Gniezno.

Pelplin was part of the

Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, the Teutonic Knights renounced any claims to the region, and recognized it as part of Poland.[3] Pelplin was since part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in the autonomous province of Royal Prussia in the Greater Poland Province. In the following centuries several Polish Kings visited the Pelplin Abbey, among them Sigismund III Vasa and John III Sobieski. During the reformation
, the last abbot of the monastery of Doberan moved in 1552 to the affiliated monastery of Pelplin.

Partitions of Poland

In 1772, during the First Partition of Poland by the Russia, Austria and Prussia, Pelplin was annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia, in 1773 it was included into the newly formed province West Prussia, composed from just annexed Polish territory, and the religious and political discrimination of the Poles greatly intensified.[4] Pelplin was subjected to Germanisation policies.

In 1819 the Pelplin monastery was suppressed. After the monastic buildings had been modified, they were utilized since 1824 as the seat of the

Progymnasium
.

The economical development of Pelplin accelerated after 1852, when the village was connected to the new railway line

Regierungsbezirk Danzig in West Prussia
.

Return to independence

After

town rights
.

World War II

In 1939, after the

looted or destroyed historic Polish collections, including the library and the archive.[10] The Einsatzkommando 16 established a prison for local Polish activists, teachers and priests at the seminary, and the victims were later either murdered in the Szpęgawski Forest, deported to concentration camps, or moved to the prison in Starogard Gdański.[10] In 1940 the Germans shortly operated a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp in the town.[11]

In the final stages of the war Pelplin was captured by the

People's Republic of Poland
.

Transport

Pelplin is located at the intersection of the Voivodeship roads 229 and 230, and the Polish A1 motorway runs nearby, west of the town.

Sports

The town has two football teams KS Wierzyca Pelplin[12] and KS Centrum Pelplin,[13] both of which compete in the lower leagues.

Notable people

  • Andrzej Liss (born 1950 in Pelplin) a Polish politician, elected to the Sejm in 2005

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Pelplin is

twinned
with:

Footnotes

  1. ^ Diocesan Museum in Pelplin. Homepage.
  2. ^ Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 kwietnia 2014 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii "Pelplin - zespół pocystersko-katedralny", Dz. U. z 2014 r. poz. 614
  3. ^ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish and Latin). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. pp. 88–90, 206–207.
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online (2008), Poland. History > The Commonwealth > Reforms, agony, and partitions. The First 1772 Partition.
  5. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon,6th edition, Vol. 15, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, p. 554.
  6. ^ Korda, Krzysztof (2019). "Strajk szkolny na Kociewiu 1906–1907". Kociewski Magazyn Regionalny (in Polish). Vol. 2, no. 105. p. 5.
  7. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 155.
  8. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 155-156
  9. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 148-149
  10. ^ a b Wardzyńska, p. 156
  11. ^ "Pelplin (Pelplin)" (in German). Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Skarb - Wierzyca Pelplin".
  13. ^ "Skarb - Centrum Pelplin".

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