Sulechów

Coordinates: 52°5′N 15°37′E / 52.083°N 15.617°E / 52.083; 15.617
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See also: Sulechów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Sulechów
Town hall
Town hall
Car plates
FZI
ClimateCfb
Primary airportZielona Góra Airport
Highways
National roads
Websitewww.sulechow.pl

Sulechów (pronounced

Zielona Góra Voivodeship. The town limits cover 6.88 square kilometres (2.66 sq mi). Olga Tokarczuk
, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner for 2018 was born in 1962 in Sulechów.

Geography

Sulechów is situated in the historic

Oder river. The town centre is located about 22 km (14 mi) northeast of the regional capital Zielona Góra, where the national road 32 to Poznań crosses the expressway S3 to Gorzów Wielkopolski. The regional Zielona Góra Airport
is about 14 km (8.7 mi) away.

History

The settlement of the region on the Middle Oder dates back to the 4th century AD.

Medieval Poland

In the late 10th century, the area was included in the

defensive walls.[3]

Calvinist
church

The settlement itself was first mentioned in a 1319 deed, at the time when the warlike

Piast dukes of Głogów.[2]

When the last Piast duke

Albrecht Achilles. The Brandenburg influence met with fierce opposition by Henry's Piast cousin, Duke Jan II the Mad of Żagań, who nevertheless after several years of fighting had to sign an agreement, whereby the Silesian towns of Crossen (Krosno) and the town passed to the Margraviate of Brandenburg as a fief of the Bohemian (Czech) Kingdom,[4] an integral part of the Holy Roman Empire
.

Modern era

Krosno's Gate

Along with Crossen, Sulechów, under the Germanized name Züllichau,

Protestant Reformation. Two years later, the Piast duke Joachim of Münsterberg-Oels and his younger brothers officially waived any rights to the Crossen and Züllichau territories. Part of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1618, the town was devastated during the Thirty Years' War but again flourished under the rule of the "Great Elector" Frederick William. From the 17th century, clothmaking developed.[4]

Züllichau was part of the newly established Kingdom of Prussia since 1701. It became a garrison town of the Prussian Army. The Polish minority resisted Germanisation attempts, carried out by the Prussian authorities.[4] From 1815 it belonged to the Province of Brandenburg and became the administrative seat of the Züllichau-Schwiebus rural district within the Frankfurt Region. In 1828, 18-year-old Frédéric Chopin visited the town and gave an improvised concert.[5] Between 1871 and 1945 Züllichau was part of the German Reich. In the late 19th century, the medieval town walls were partly dismantled.[3] Four Polish insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising died in German captivity in the town in 1919.[6]

During

Republic of Poland by the implementation of the Oder–Neisse line in 1945, while the remaining German population was expelled. The remaining Polish inhabitants were joined by Poles displaced from former eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union
. The historic Polish name Sulechów was restored.

Holy Cross Church

Sports

The town's most notable sports clubs are football team Lech Sulechów [pl] and volleyball team Orion Sulechów [pl]. Both teams compete in the lower leagues.

Notable people

Sport

Twin towns – sister cities

See twin towns of Gmina Sulechów.

References

  1. ^ "Population. Size and structure and vital statistics in Poland by territorial division in 2019. As of 30th June". stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  2. ^ a b c Sulechów - Internetowy Serwis Miejski Archived 2011-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b Marta Kłaczkowska. "Mury obronne". Zabytek.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Sulechów". Encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. ^ Sulechów - Internetowy Serwis Miejski - Fryderyk Chopin w Sulechowie Archived October 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Olszewski, Wiesław; Jastrząb, Łukasz (2008). Lista strat Powstania Wielkopolskiego od 27.12.1918 r. do 8.03.1920 r. (in Polish). Koszalin: Wydawnictwo Uczelniane Politechniki Koszalińskiej. pp. 236, 270, 332, 371.
  7. Coolidge, William Augustus Brevoort (1911). "Ebel, Johann Gottfried" . Encyclopædia Britannica
    . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). p. 840.

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