Pobiedziska

Coordinates: 52°29′41″N 17°16′2″E / 52.49472°N 17.26722°E / 52.49472; 17.26722
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Pobiedziska
The Pobiedziska market square
The Pobiedziska market square
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
62-010
Vehicle registrationPZ, POZ
ClimateDfb
Primary airportPoznań–Ławica Airport
Voivodeship road
Websitehttp://www.pobiedziska.pl/

Pobiedziska ([pɔbʲɛˈd͡ʑiska]) (German: Pudewitz) is a town in Poznań County, Poland, with 8,209 inhabitants as of the year 2004. It is also the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Pobiedziska.

The town's name comes from the word pobieda meaning victory. It was named by

Masovian namiestnik.[1]

History

Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)

In 1257, Pobiedziska was granted

Teutonic Knights and it took many years to recover. It was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[2]

The town was often visited by

Władysław Jagiełło
. In 1423 he funded the construction of a Church of the Holy Spirit as well as a hospital for the poor.

Due to the

Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919), including the battle for Inowrocław
.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. The first expulsions of 218 Poles were carried out in December 1939.[3] A local unit of the Wielkopolska Organizacja Wojskowa Polish resistance organization was founded already in 1939, and the following year it became part of the larger Wojskowa Organizacja Ziem Zachodnich organization.[4] Mieczysław Golus, commander of the local unit of the Union of Armed Struggle, was arrested by the Germans in 1942 and then sentenced to death and executed the following year.[5]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18802,255—    
18902,428+7.7%
19002,855+17.6%
19103,397+19.0%
19213,363−1.0%
YearPop.±%
19313,745+11.4%
19394,452+18.9%
19503,767−15.4%
19605,008+32.9%
20108,748+74.7%
Source: [6][7]

Sights

Sights of Pobiedziska include:

Transport

Pobiedziska railway station

There are two railway stations in the town: Pobiedziska and Pobiedziska Letnisko, and the voivodeship road 194 passes through the town.

Sport

Pobiedziska is home to the football team Huragan Pobiedziska.

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ (in Polish) Official website of Pobiedziska - History of the town and region
  2. ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1b.
  3. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4
    .
  4. ISBN 83-85003-97-5
    .
  5. ^ Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945. p. 179.
  6. ^ Dokumentacja Geograficzna (in Polish). Vol. 3/4. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1967. p. 38.
  7. ^ Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 105. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
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