Szczecin

Coordinates: 53°25′57″N 14°32′53″E / 53.43250°N 14.54806°E / 53.43250; 14.54806
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Szczecin
Stare Miasto; Red Town Hall; and Szczecin Philharmonic
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
PL-70-017
to 71–871
Area code+48 91
Car platesZS
ClimateCfb
Primary airportSolidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport
Websitewww.szczecin.pl

Szczecin (

German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of 31 December 2022, the population was 391,566.[1]

Szczecin is located on the

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
.

Szczecin is the administrative and industrial centre of West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the site of the

headquarters of NATO's Multinational Corps Northeast. The city was a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2016.[9]

Name and etymology

Szczecin and Stettin are the Polish and German equivalents of the same name, which is of

Proto-Slavic origin, though the exact etymology is the subject of ongoing research.[10][a]
In her Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names of Poland, Maria Malec lists 11 theories regarding the origin of the name, including derivations from either: an Old Slavic word for 'hill peak' (Polish: szczyt), the plant fuller's teasel (Polish: szczeć), or the personal name Szczota.[14]

Other medieval names for the town are Burstaborg (in the Knytlinga saga)[11][15] and Burstenburgh (in the Annals of Waldemar).[11][15] These names, which literally mean 'brush burgh', are likely derived from the translation of the city's Slavic name (assuming derivation No. 2 for that).[15]

History

Middle Ages

The stone near Szczecin Cathedral commemorating the Kashubians (a Lehitic peoples), with an image of the Pomeranian Griffin

The recorded history of Szczecin began in the eighth century, as Vikings[16] and West Slavs settled Pomerania. The West Slavs, or Lechites, erected a new stronghold on the site of the modern castle.[17] Since the 9th century, the stronghold was fortified and expanded toward the

Mieszko I of Poland took control of Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages and the region became part of Poland in the 10th century.[18][19] However, already Mieszko II Lambert (1025 ~ 1034) effectively lost control over the area and had to accept German suzerainty over the area of the Oder lagoon.[20] Subsequent Polish rulers, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Liutician federation all aimed to control the territory.[10]

After the decline of the neighbouring regional centre Wolin in the 12th century, the city became one of the more important and powerful seaports of the Baltic Sea.[21][22]

In a campaign in the winter of 1121–1122,

Poland, gained control of the region, including the city of Szczecin and its stronghold.[10][24][25][26][27][28][29][excessive citations] The Polish ruler initiated Christianization, entrusting this task to Otto of Bamberg,[30] and the inhabitants were Christianised[10] by two missions of Otto in 1124 and 1128.[31] At this time, the first Christian church of Ss Peter and Paul was erected. The Poles' minted coins were commonly used in trade in this period.[10] The population of the city at that time is estimated to be at around 5,000–9,000 people.[32]

Szczecin Cathedral, first built in the 14th century

Polish rule ended with Boleslaw's death in 1138.

Mieszko III the Old[38][39] joined the crusaders.[34][35] However, the citizens had placed crosses around the fortifications,[40] indicating they already had been Christianised.[10][41] Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania, negotiated the disbanding of the crusading forces.[34][35][42]

After the

Mieszko III the Old, who also periodically was the High Duke of Poland.[45] Following a conflict between his heirs and Canute VI of Denmark, the settlement was destroyed in 1189,[46] but the fortress was reconstructed and manned with a Danish force in 1190.[47] While the empire restored its superiority over the Duchy of Pomerania in the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227,[44] Szczecin was one of two bridgeheads remaining under Danish control (until 1235; Wolgast until 1241/43 or 1250).[46]

In the second half of the 12th century, a group of German tradesmen ("multus populus Teutonicorum"[48] from various parts of the Holy Roman Empire) settled in the city around St. Jacob's Church, which was donated in 1180[48] by Beringer, a trader from Bamberg, and consecrated in 1187.[48][49] Hohenkrug (now in Szczecin Struga) was the first village in the Duchy of Pomerania that was clearly recorded as German (villa teutonicorum) in 1173.[50] Ostsiedlung accelerated in Pomerania during the 13th century.[51] Duke Barnim I of Pomerania granted Szczecin a local government charter in 1237, separating the German settlement from the Slavic community settled around the St. Nicholas Church in the neighbourhood of Kessin (Polish: Chyzin). In the charter, the Slavs were put under Germanic jurisdiction.[52]

Szczecin Castle, the seat of the dukes of the House of Griffin, which was founded by Duke Wartislaw I

When Barnim granted Szczecin Magdeburg rights in 1243, part of the Slavic settlement was reconstructed.[53] The duke had to promise to level the burgh in 1249.[54] Most Slavic inhabitants were resettled to two new suburbs north and south of the town.[55]

In 1249, Barnim I also granted Magdeburg town privileges to the town of Damm (also known as Altdamm) on the eastern bank of the Oder.

Pomeranian burg, "Vadam" or "Dambe", which Boleslaw had destroyed during his 1121 campaign.[57]

On 2 December 1261, Barnim I allowed Jewish settlement in Szczecin in accordance with the Magdeburg law, in a privilege renewed in 1308 and 1371.[59] The Jewish Jordan family was granted citizenship in 1325, but none of the 22 Jews allowed to settle in the duchy in 1481 lived in the city, and in 1492, all Jews in the duchy were ordered to convert to Christianity or leave – this order remained effective throughout the rest of the Griffin era.[59]

In 1273, in Szczecin duke of Poznań and future King of Poland Przemysł II married princess Ludgarda, granddaughter of Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania, in order to strengthen the alliance between the two rulers.[60]

Szczecin was part of the federation of Wendish towns, a predecessor of the Hanseatic League, in 1283.[61] The city prospered due to its participation in the Baltic Sea trade, primarily with herring, grain, and timber; craftsmanship also prospered, and more than forty guilds were established in the city.[62] The far-reaching autonomy granted by the House of Griffins was in part reduced when the dukes reclaimed Stettin as their main residence in the late 15th century.[62] The anti-Slavic policies of German merchants and craftsmen intensified in this period, resulting in measures such as bans on people of Slavic descent joining craft guilds, a doubling of customs tax for Slavic merchants, and bans against public usage of their native language.[10] The more prosperous Slavic citizens were forcibly stripped of their possessions, which were then handed over to Germans.[10] In 1514, the guild of tailors added a Wendenparagraph to its statutes, banning Slavs.[63]

View of the city with fortifications, 1581

While not as heavily affected by medieval witchhunts as other regions of the empire, there are reports of the burning of three women and one man convicted of witchcraft in 1538.[64]

In 1570, during the reign of John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania, a congress was held at Stettin ending the Northern Seven Years' War. During the war, Stettin had tended to side with Denmark, while Stralsund tended toward Sweden – as a whole, however, the Duchy of Pomerania tried to maintain neutrality.[65] Nevertheless, a Landtag that had met in Stettin in 1563 introduced a sixfold rise in real estate taxes to finance the raising of a mercenary army for the duchy's defence.[65] Johann Friedrich also succeeded in elevating Stettin to one of only three places allowed to coin money in the Upper Saxon Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, the other two places being Leipzig and Berlin.[66] Bogislaw XIV, who resided in Stettin beginning in 1620, became the sole ruler and Griffin duke when Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania died in 1625. Before the Thirty Years' War reached Pomerania, the city, as well as the entire duchy, declined economically due to the decrease in importance of the Hanseatic League and a conflict between Stettin and Frankfurt an der Oder.[67]

17th to 18th centuries

The city's fortifications, as seen in 1642

Following the

Charles XII, the city went to Prussia in 1720.[68] Instead Stralsund became capital of the last remaining parts of Swedish Pomerania 1720–1815.[70]

The city was on the path of Polish forces led by

Polish anthem
, and numerous locations in the city honour his name.

Wars inhibited the city's economic prosperity, which had undergone a deep crisis during the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and was further impeded by the new Swedish-Brandenburg-Prussian frontier, cutting Stettin off from its traditional Farther Pomeranian hinterland.[62] Due to a Plague during the Great Northern War, the city's population dropped from 6,000 people in 1709 to 4,000 in 1711.[72] In 1720, after the Great Northern War, Sweden was forced to cede the city to King Frederick William I of Prussia. Stettin was made the capital city of the Prussian Pomeranian province, since 1815 reorganised as the Province of Pomerania. In 1816, the city had 26,000 inhabitants.[73]

The Prussian administration deprived the city of its right to administrative autonomy, abolished guild privileges as well as its status as a staple town, and subsidised manufacturers.[69] Also, colonists were settled in the city, primarily French Huguenots.[69] The French established a prosperous community, greatly contributed to the city's economic revival, and were treated with reluctance by the German burghers and city authorities.[74]

19th to 20th centuries

In October 1806, during the War of the Fourth Coalition, believing that he was facing a much larger force, and after receiving a threat of harsh treatment of the city, the Prussian commander Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg agreed to surrender the city to the French led by General Lasalle.[75] In fact, Lasalle had only 800 men against von Romberg's 5,300 men. In March 1809 Romberg was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for giving up Stettin without a fight. In 1809, also Polish troops were stationed in the city, while the French remained until 1813.

Late 19th-century view of the city's riverfront

From 1683 to 1812, one Jew was permitted to reside in Stettin, and an additional Jew was allowed to spend a night in the city in case of "urgent business".

Prussian Edict of Emancipation of 11 March 1812, which granted Prussian citizenship to all Jews living in the kingdom, did a Jewish community emerge in Stettin, with the first Jews settling in the town in 1814.[59] Construction of a synagogue started in 1834; the community also owned a religious and a secular school, an orphanage since 1855, and a retirement home since 1893.[76] The Jewish community had between 1,000 and 1,200 members by 1873 and between 2,800 and 3,000 members by 1927–28.[76] These numbers dropped to 2,701 in 1930 and to 2,322 in late 1934.[76]

After the

POWs were imprisoned there in deplorable conditions, resulting in the deaths of 600;[77]
after the Second World War monuments in their memory were built by the Polish authorities.

Until 1873, Stettin remained a fortress.[69] When part of the defensive structures were levelled, a new neighbourhood, Neustadt ("New Town") as well as water pipes, sewerage and drainage, and gas works were built to meet the demands of the growing population.[69]

Stettin developed into a major Prussian port and became part of the

Kaiserfahrt (now Piast) canal.[69] The city was also a scientific centre; for example, it was home to the Entomological Society of Stettin
.

Sedina Monument (1899–1913)—Sedina was a personification of the city, symbolizing maritime trade and commerce.

On 20 October 1890, some of the city's Poles created the "Society of Polish-Catholic Workers" in the city, one of the first Polish organisations.

pre-dreadnought battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. In 1914, before World War I, the Polish community in the city numbered over 3,000 people,[10] contributing about 2% of the population.[78] These were primarily industrial workers and their families who came from the Poznań (Posen) area[80] and a few local wealthy industrialists and merchants. Among them was Kazimierz Pruszak, director of the Gollnow industrial works and a Polish patriot, who predicted the eventual "return" of Szczecin to Poland.[10]

During the interwar period, Stettin was Weimar Germany's largest port on the Baltic Sea, and her third-largest port after Hamburg and Bremen.[81] Cars of the Stoewer automobile company were produced in Stettin from 1899 to 1945. By 1939, the Reichsautobahn Berlin–Stettin was completed.[69]

Stettin played a major role as an entrepôt in the development of the Scottish herring trade with the Continent, peaking at an annual export of more than 400,000 barrels in 1885, 1894 and 1898. Trade flourished until the outbreak of the First World War and resumed on a reduced scale during the years between the wars.[82]

In the March 1933 German elections to the Reichstag, the Nazis and German nationalists from the German National People's Party (or DNVP) won most of the votes in the city, together winning 98,626 of 165,331 votes (59.3%), with the NSDAP getting 79,729 (47.9%) and the DNVP 18,897 (11.4%).[83]

In 1935, the Wehrmacht made Stettin the headquarters for Wehrkreis II, which controlled the military units in all of Mecklenburg and Pomerania. It was also the area headquarters for units stationed at Stettin I and II; Swinemünde (Świnoujście); Greifswald; and Stralsund.

In the interwar period, the Polish minority numbered 2,000 people,[10][84] less than 1% of the city's population at that time.[78] A number of Poles were members of the Union of Poles in Germany (ZPN), which was active in the city from 1924.[85] A Polish consulate was located in the city between 1925 and 1939.[86] On the initiative of the consulate[86] and ZPN activist Maksymilian Golisz,[87] a number of Polish institutions were established, e.g., a Polish Scout team and a Polish school.[10][86] German historian Musekamp writes, "however, only very few Poles were active in these institutions, which for the most part were headed by employees of the [Polish] consulate."[87] The withdrawal of the consulate from these institutions led to a general decline of these activities, which were in part upheld by Golisz and Aleksander Omieczyński.[88] Intensified repressions by the Nazis,[10][84] who exaggerated the Polish activities to propagate an infiltration,[87] led to the closing of the school.[10] In 1938, the head of Szczecin's Union of Poles unit, Stanisław Borkowski, was imprisoned in Oranienburg.[10] In 1939, all Polish organisations in Stettin were disbanded by the German authorities.[10] Golisz and Omieczyński were murdered during the war.[10] After the defeat of Nazi Germany, a street was named after Golisz.[87] According to German historian Jan Musekamp, the activities of the Polish pre-war organizations were exaggerated after World War II for propaganda purposes.[89]

World War II

During

German 2nd Motorised Infantry Division, which cut across the Polish Corridor and was later used in 1940 as an embarkation point for Operation Weserübung, Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway.[90]

On 15 October 1939, neighbouring municipalities were joined to Stettin, creating Groß-Stettin, with about 380,000 inhabitants, in 1940.[69] The city had become the third-largest German city by area, after Berlin and Hamburg.[91]

As the war started, the number of non-Germans in the city increased as slave workers were brought in. The first transports came in 1939 from Bydgoszcz, Toruń and Łódź. They were mainly used in a synthetic silk factory near Stettin.[10] The next wave of slave workers was brought in 1940, in addition to PoWs who were used for work in the agricultural industry.[10] According to German police reports from 1940, 15,000 Polish slave workers lived within the city.[10][92]

During the war, 135 forced labour camps for slave workers were established in the city. Most of the 25,000 slave workers were Poles, but Czechs, Italians, Frenchmen and Belgians, as well as Dutch citizens, were also enslaved in the camps.[10] A Nazi prison was also operated in the city, with forced labour subcamps in the region.[93]

The city centre in 1945

In February 1940,

SS. Due to publicity given to the event, German institutions ordered such future actions to be made in a way unlikely to attract public notice.[94] The action was the first deportation of Jews from prewar territory in Nazi Germany.[95]

Allied air raids in 1944 and heavy fighting between the German and Soviet armies destroyed 65% of Stettin's buildings and almost all of the city centre, the seaport, and local industries. Polish Home Army intelligence assisted in pinpointing targets for Allied bombing in the area of Stettin.[96] The city itself was covered by the Home Army's "Bałtyk" structure, and Polish resistance infiltrated Stettin's naval yards.[97][98] Other activities of the resistance consisted of smuggling people to Sweden.[99]

The Soviet Red Army captured the city on 26 April 1945. While the majority of the almost 400,000 inhabitants had left the city, between 6,000 and 20,000 inhabitants remained in late April.[100]

Old Town from the Oder River. Most of the medieval buildings in the city centre were completely destroyed during World War II. The Ducal Castle
can be seen in the background.

On 28 April 1945 Polish authorities tried to gain control,

new border to be in "a line running from the Baltic Sea immediately west of Swinemünde, and thence along the Oder River[...]". Because of the returnees, the German population of the town swelled to 84,000.[102] The mortality rate was at 20%, primarily due to starvation.[104] However, Stettin and the mouth of the Oder River became Polish on 5 July 1945, as had been decided in a treaty signed on 26 July 1944 between the Soviet Union and the Soviet-controlled Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) (also known as "the Lublin Poles", as contrasted with the London-based Polish government-in-exile).[10] On 4 October 1945, the decisive land border of Poland was established west of the 1945 line,[10][105] and the city was renamed to its historic Polish name Szczecin, but the area excluded the Police area, the Oder River itself and the port of Szczecin, which remained under Soviet administration.[105] The Oder River was handed over to Polish administration in September 1946, followed by the port between February 1946 and May 1954.[105]

Post-war

Monument to Polish Endeavor (Pomnik Czynu Polaków), dedicated to three Generations of Poles in Western Pomerania: the pre-war Poles in Szczecin, the Poles who rebuilt the city after World War II, and the modern generation

While in 1945 the number of pre-war inhabitants dropped to 57,215 on 31 October 1945, the

American occupation zone.[110]

Szczecin was rebuilt, and the city's industry was expanded. At the same time, Szczecin became a major Polish industrial centre and an important seaport (particularly for

Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".[112][113]

Szczecin Shipyard workers' strike against the communist government authorities in Poland, August 1980

The city witnessed

John Paul II visited the city on 11 June 1987.[118] Another wave of strikes in Szczecin broke out in 1988 and 1989, which eventually led to the Round Table Agreement and first semi-free elections in post-war Poland
.

Szczecin has been the capital of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.

Geography

Climate

Szczecin has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with some humid continental (Dfb) characteristics in normal not updated, typical of Western Pomerania. The winters are colder than on the immediate coast and the summers are warm, but still with some moderation, especially due to the Baltic Sea.[119]

The average air temperature in Szczecin ranges from 8 to 8.4 °C. The hottest month is July with a temperature of 15.8 °C to 20.3 °C, the coldest January from -4.1 °C to 2.6 °C. Air temperature below 0 °C occurs on average over 86 days a year, most frequently in January and February. The average annual rainfall is 537 mm, the average rainfall in the cool half-year is 225 mm, and in the warmer half-year is 350 mm. On average, 167 days with precipitation occurs.[120]

Climate data for Szczecin (Szczecin Dąbie), elevation: 1 m, 1991-2020 normals, extremes 1951–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 15.5
(59.9)
17.9
(64.2)
23.9
(75.0)
30.6
(87.1)
32.0
(89.6)
35.6
(96.1)
37.3
(99.1)
37.8
(100.0)
30.8
(87.4)
26.7
(80.1)
19.4
(66.9)
14.9
(58.8)
37.8
(100.0)
Mean maximum °C (°F) 9.8
(49.6)
11.6
(52.9)
17.2
(63.0)
23.8
(74.8)
27.5
(81.5)
30.3
(86.5)
31.6
(88.9)
31.8
(89.2)
25.7
(78.3)
20.5
(68.9)
14.2
(57.6)
10.8
(51.4)
33.7
(92.7)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 3.0
(37.4)
4.5
(40.1)
8.5
(47.3)
14.7
(58.5)
19.1
(66.4)
22.1
(71.8)
24.3
(75.7)
24.0
(75.2)
19.2
(66.6)
13.5
(56.3)
7.5
(45.5)
4.0
(39.2)
13.7
(56.7)
Daily mean °C (°F) 0.6
(33.1)
1.5
(34.7)
4.2
(39.6)
9.2
(48.6)
13.6
(56.5)
16.8
(62.2)
18.9
(66.0)
18.5
(65.3)
14.3
(57.7)
9.5
(49.1)
4.9
(40.8)
1.9
(35.4)
9.5
(49.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −1.8
(28.8)
−1.3
(29.7)
0.4
(32.7)
4.0
(39.2)
8.2
(46.8)
11.5
(52.7)
13.8
(56.8)
13.5
(56.3)
9.9
(49.8)
6.0
(42.8)
2.4
(36.3)
−0.5
(31.1)
5.5
(41.9)
Mean minimum °C (°F) −11.8
(10.8)
−9.9
(14.2)
−7.3
(18.9)
−3.2
(26.2)
1.1
(34.0)
5.7
(42.3)
8.2
(46.8)
7.2
(45.0)
3.0
(37.4)
−2.1
(28.2)
−4.8
(23.4)
−8.6
(16.5)
−15.0
(5.0)
Record low °C (°F) −30.0
(−22.0)
−28.7
(−19.7)
−23.1
(−9.6)
−7.7
(18.1)
−4.4
(24.1)
0.3
(32.5)
4.4
(39.9)
1.2
(34.2)
−2.6
(27.3)
−6.9
(19.6)
−11.4
(11.5)
−22.3
(−8.1)
−30.0
(−22.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 40.0
(1.57)
32.8
(1.29)
38.4
(1.51)
31.2
(1.23)
55.8
(2.20)
59.1
(2.33)
76.2
(3.00)
60.3
(2.37)
47.7
(1.88)
43.5
(1.71)
39.0
(1.54)
43.0
(1.69)
567.1
(22.33)
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) 3.6
(1.4)
4.0
(1.6)
1.9
(0.7)
0.4
(0.2)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.7
(0.3)
2.3
(0.9)
4.0
(1.6)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 16.13 14.54 13.53 11.07 13.57 13.07 14.17 13.10 11.93 14.07 14.60 16.87 166.64
Average snowy days (≥ 0 cm) 7.6 6.9 2.8 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 4.7 23.7
Average
relative humidity
(%)
87.1 83.3 78.2 70.8 71.5 72.9 74.4 75.9 81.2 85.5 89.1 89.0 79.9
Average dew point °C (°F) −1
(30)
−1
(30)
0
(32)
3
(37)
8
(46)
11
(52)
13
(55)
13
(55)
10
(50)
7
(45)
3
(37)
0
(32)
6
(42)
Mean monthly sunshine hours 42.7 66.7 121.2 199.3 244.5 242.3 246.3 230.3 160.0 105.7 47.4 32.2 1,738.6
Average ultraviolet index 0 1 2 4 5 6 6 5 4 2 1 0 3
Source 1: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management[121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128]
Source 2: Meteomodel.pl (records, relative humidity 1991–2020),[129][130][131] Weather Atlas (UV),[132] Time and Date (dewpoints, 1985-2015)[133]

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Architecture and urban planning

Szczecin's architectural style is due to trends popular in the last half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century: Academic art and Art Nouveau. In many areas built after 1945, especially in the city centre, which had been destroyed due to Allied bombing, social realism is prevalent.

Façades in the rebuilt old town

The city has an abundance of green areas: parks and avenues – wide streets with trees planted in the island separating opposing traffic (where often tram tracks are laid); and roundabouts. Szczecin's city plan resembles that of Paris, mostly because Szczecin was rebuilt in the 1880s according to a design by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had redesigned Paris under Napoléon III.[134] This pattern of street design is still used in Szczecin, as many recently built (or modified) city areas include roundabouts and avenues.[134]

Grumbkow's Palace
Town Hall

During the city's reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II, the communist authorities of Poland wanted the city's architecture to reflect an old Polish

Griffin dynasty, which had Lechitic and West Slavic roots and was seen to be of Piast extraction by some historians.[136] This view was manifested, for example, by erecting respective memorials, and the naming of streets and enterprises,[137] while German traces were replaced by symbols of three main categories: Piasts, the martyrdom of Poles, and gratitude to the Soviet and Polish armies which had ended the Nazi atrocities against Polish citizens.[138]

The ruins of the

systematically razed following the Warsaw Uprising): with 38 million bricks, Szczecin became Poland's largest brick supplier.[140]
The Old Town was rebuilt in the late 1990s, with new buildings, some of which were reconstructions of buildings destroyed in World War II.

The Gothic monuments preserved to this day are parts of European Route of Brick Gothic, along with monuments of other Pomeranian cities, e.g. Stargard, Kamień Pomorski, Sławno and Chełmno.

A portion of the Szczecin Landscape Park in the forest of Puszcza Bukowa lies within Szczecin's boundaries.

Szczecin contains 28 extant historic water pumps, known as Szczecin pumps or Berliners, which are a popular tourist attraction due to their colorful and intricate design.[141]

Municipal administration

Szczecin's administrative divisions

The city is administratively divided into districts (Polish: dzielnica), which are further divided into smaller neighbourhoods. The governing bodies of the latter serve the role of auxiliary local government bodies called Neighbourhood Councils (Polish: Rady Osiedla). Elections for neighbourhood councils are held up to six months after each City Council election. Voter turnout is rather low (on 20 May 2007 it ranged from 1.03% to 27.75% and was 3.78% on average). Councillors are responsible mostly for small infrastructure like trees, park benches, playgrounds, etc. Other functions are mostly advisory.

Other historical neighbourhoods

.

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
16005,000—    
1720 6,081+21.6%
1740 12,300+102.3%
1812 21,255+72.8%
1840 35,300+66.1%
1852 48,028+36.1%
1861 58,487+21.8%
1872 76,000+29.9%
1885 99,543+31.0%
1905 224,119+125.1%
1939 383,000+70.9%
1946 72,948−81.0%
1950 178,907+145.3%
1960 269,318+50.5%
1970338,000+25.5%
1980388,322+14.9%
1990413,437+6.5%
2000416,657+0.8%
2010405,606−2.7%
2020398,255−1.8%
source [142]

Since the 12th-century Christianization of the city, the majority of the population were Catholics, then since the Renaissance era, up to the end of World War II, the vast majority of the population were Lutheran Protestants, and since 1945, the majority are again Catholics. Historically, the number of inhabitants doubled from 6,081 in 1720,[143] to 12,360 in 1740,[143] and reached 21,255 in 1812, with only 476 Catholics and 5 Jews.[143] By 1852 the population was 48,028,[143] and 58,487 ten years later (1861), including 1,065 Catholics and 1,438 Jews.[143] In 1885, it was 99,543,[83] and by 1905 it ballooned to 224,119 settlers (incl. the military), among them 209,152 Protestants, 8,635 Catholics and 3,010 Jews.[144] In 1939, the number of inhabitants reached 268,421 persons according to German sources including 233,424 Protestants, 10,845 Catholics, and 1,102 Jews.[83][145] The current population of Szczecin by comparison was 406,427 in 2009. Following the Revolution of Dignity, Szczecin, much like most other major urban centers in Poland, saw an unprecedented influx of foreign nationals, an overwhelming majority of them Ukrainians; in July 2017 26 thousand of them were officially registered as living and working in Szczecin, with unofficial estimates going as high as 50 thousand, thus making up more than 10% of the city's inhabitants.[146]

Number of inhabitants over the centuries

Politics

Szczecin Voivodeship Office

Recently[

Palikot's Movement third with 11.8%.[148]

Members of European Parliament (MEPs) from Szczecin

Museums and galleries

National Museum in Szczecin

Arts and entertainment

Interior of the Szczecin Philharmonic, which opened in 2014

There are a few theatres and cinemas in Szczecin:

  • The Castle Cinema (Polish Kino Zamek)
  • Pionier 1909 Cinema (Polish Kino Pionier 1909)
  • Kana Theatre (Polish Teatr Kana)
  • Modern Theatre (Polish Teatr Współczesny)
  • Opera in the Castle (Polish Opera na Zamku)
  • Polish Theatre in Szczecin
    (Polish Teatr Polski w Szczecinie
  • The Cellar by the Vault Cabaret (Polish Kabaret Piwnica przy Krypcie)
  • The Crypt Theatre (Polish Teatr Krypta)
  • The Pleciuga Puppetry Theatre[154] (Polish Teatr Lalek Pleciuga)
  • The Niema Theatre (Polish Teatr Niema)
  • Szczecin Philharmonic

and many historic places as:

  • Bismarck tower Szczecin
  • (ruins of) The Quistorp's Tower (Polish Wieża Quistorpa)
  • Napoleon mound (at the intersection of Klonowica Street and Unii Lubelskiej Street)

The statue, Monument of Sailor stands at the Grunwald Square at John Paul II Avenue.

Local cuisine

Pasztecik szczeciński with clear borscht, a local fast food

The local cuisine in Szczecin was mostly shaped in the mid-20th century by people who settled in the city from other parts and regions of Poland, including the former

Eastern Borderlands.[155] The most renowned dishes of the area are pasztecik szczeciński and paprykarz szczeciński.[156] Other local traditional foods
and drinks include Szczecin gingerbread and beer.

Pasztecik szczeciński is a deep-fried yeast dough stuffed with meat or vegetarian filling, served in specialised bars as a fast food. The first bar serving pasztecik szczeciński, Bar "Pasztecik", founded in 1969, is located on Wojska Polskiego Avenue 46 in the centre of Szczecin. Pasztecik szczeciński is usually served with clear borscht.[156]

Paprykarz szczeciński is a paste made by mixing fish paste (around 50%) with rice, onion, tomato concentrate, vegetable oil, salt and a mixture of spices including chili powder to put it on a sandwich. It is available in most grocery stores in the country.[156]

Szczecin gingerbread

Szczecin gingerbread (pierniki szczecińskie) is a traditional local gingerbread glazed with chocolate or sugar with decorations mostly referring either to the city's architecture or to maritime motifs.[157]

Szczecin beer (piwo szczecińskie) includes various types of traditional local Polish beer: light, amber, and wheat beer.[158] The city's brewing traditions go back over a thousand years.[158]

The word "szczeciński" or "szczecińskie" in the names of the products is an adjective from the name of the city of Szczecin, the place of its origin.

Sports

Stadium of Pogoń Szczecin
Netto Arena
Athletics stadium

There are many popular professional sports teams in Szczecin area. The most popular sport today is probably football thanks to Pogoń Szczecin. Amateur sports are played by thousands of Szczecin citizens and also in schools of all levels (elementary, secondary, university).

Professional teams

As can be seen above, many teams in Szczecin are named after

Eastern Borderlands
.

Amateur leagues

  • Halowa Amatorska Liga Pilkarska – Hall Amateur Football League[159]
  • Halowa Liga Pilki Noznej – Hall Football League
  • Szczecinska Liga Amatorskiej Koszykowki – Szczecin Amateur Basketball League[160]
  • Szczecinska Amatorska Liga Pilki Siatkowej – Szczecin Amateur Volleyball League[161] – women league, 1st, 2nd and 3rd men league
  • Elita Professional Sport – Elita Hall Football League[162] – 1st and 2nd league, futsal cup
  • Kaskada Szczecin Rugby Club – club rugby[163] – 7 and 15 league, rugby cup

Cyclic events

Every year in September the men's tennis tournament

Pekao Szczecin Open
is held in Szczecin. In August, a marathon is organized in Szczecin.

Economy and transport

Former Niemierzyn tram depot – nowadays museum
Pesa Swing tram in Kościuszki Square
The S3 Expressway links Szczecin with its airport (at Goleniów) and Baltic ferry terminal (in Świnoujście), as well as with the major cities of Western Poland to the south – Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra.

Economy

Szczecin is a center of the maritime economy; it employs 13279 people. The seaport of Szczecin serves shipowners from all over the world and is the home port of two shipping companies: Polsteam and Euroafrica. In addition, other maritime-related companies are headquartered here.

In 2013, a subzone of the Szczecin-Kostrzyn-Slubice Special Economic Zone was established.[164]

As of September 2016, the number of registered unemployed in Szczecin included about 8,400 residents, representing an unemployment rate of 5.0% to the economically active population.[165]

The average employee salary in October 2012 was PLN 3807.73, with the number of employed workers in Szczecin - 90,754 people. According to data from the District Labor Office in Szczecin, effective January 1, 2023, the minimum wage is PLN 3490, while the average salary of residents of the capital of West Pomerania is at PLN 6733.49.[166]

In 2009, the average gross monthly salary in the enterprise sector in Szczecin was PLN 3439.94.

Szczecin's GDP is PLN 20.255 billion, which is 1/3 of the GDP of the entire province. There are 49497 zlotys per capita, about 40% more than the result for the province.

Air

Szczecin is served by Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport, which is 47 kilometres (29 miles) northeast of central Szczecin. There is also a grass airstrip within city limits, the Szczecin-Dąbie Airstrip.

Trams

Szczecin has a tram network comprising 12 tram lines serving 95 tram stops and measuring 110.77 km (69 mi) in length. Tram transport is operated by the Tramwaje Szczecińskie (TS).

Szczecin's first horse tram opened in 1879, running from Gałczyńskiego Square to Staszica Street. In 1896, the first line using electric traction was opened. By 1900, the horse trams had been entirely replaced by electric trams.

Buses

Szczecin has a bus network of 70 bus routes. Bus transport is operated by 4 companies: SPA Dąbie, SPA Klonowica, SPPK and

PKS
Szczecin.

Of all bus routes, 50 lines are designated as normal. At nighttime, Szczecin is served by a night bus network of 16 routes. There are also 7 express bus lines, which do not serve all stops on their route.

Roads

The recently upgraded A6 motorway serves as the southern bypass of the city, and connects to the German A11 autobahn (portions of which are currently undergoing upgrade), from where one can reach Berlin in about 90 minutes (about 150 km (93 mi)). Other important highways are the S3 Expressway, linking Szczecin with the more southern cities of Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zielona Góra and Legnica, and the S6 Expressway, connecting Szczecin with Koszalin (and eventually Gdańsk once the easternmost section is completed). Through intersections with other highways, Szczecin has convenient highway connections with a number of other major Polish cities, such as Poznań, Łódź, Wrocław, Katowice, Warsaw and Kraków. Also planned is the construction of the S10 highway to connect the city with Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Płock and Warsaw.

Rail

Szczecin Główny railway station

The main train station – 

rail connection between Berlin and Szczecin is much slower and less convenient than one[who?
] would expect between two European cities of that size and proximity.

Port

The Port of Szczecin is the third largest port in Poland and handles over 32 million tons of cargo annually.[167] This is a harbour of the Baltic Sea and the Oder river.

Education and science

The monument of Jan Czekanowski, president of Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (1923–1924), at the General Władysław Anders Square
  • University of Szczecin (Polish: Uniwersytet Szczeciński), with 35,000 students; rector: Waldemar Tarczyński
  • West Pomeranian University of Technology (Polish: Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny)
  • Pomeranian Medical University (Polish: Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny)
  • Art Academy of Szczecin (Polish: Akademia Sztuki)
  • Maritime University of Szczecin (Polish: Akademia Morska w Szczecinie)
  • WSB Merito Universities – WSB Merito University in Poznań,[168] departments of Economics
  • The West Pomeranian Business School (Polish: Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu)
  • Higher School of Public Administration in Szczecin (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej w Szczecinie)
  • High Theological Seminary in Szczecin (Polish: Arcybiskupie Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Szczecinie)
  • Higher School of Applied Arts (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Sztuki Użytkowej)
  • Academy of European Integration (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Integracji Europejskiej)
  • Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Turystyczna
  • Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna TWP
  • Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych
  • Wyższa Szkoła Techniczno-Ekonomiczna
  • Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa - Collegium Balticum
  • Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa "OECONOMICUS" PTE
  • Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania
  • Bangor University

Scientific and regional organisations

Famous people

Catherine the Great was born in the city.

Over the long course of its history Szczecin has been a place of birth and of residence for many famous individuals, including Empress

Hermann Günther Grassmann, Roman Catholic priest Carl Lampert, poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Helena Majdaniec – "the queen of Polish Twist", and singer Violetta Villas
.

Twin towns and sister cities

Szczecin is twinned with:[169]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Spelling variants in medieval sources include:
    • Stetin,[11] recorded e.g. in 1133,[11] 1159,[11] 1177[11]
    • Stetyn,[11] recorded, e.g., in 1188,[11] 1243[11]
    • Stetim, 1237[12]
    • Szcecin, 1273.[12]
    • Stetina,[11] by Herbord[11]
    • Sthetynensibus or Sthetyn, 1287, in Anglicised medieval Latin.[12] (The ending –ens–ibus means 'to the people of' in Latin.)
    • Stetinum and Sedinum, still used in contemporary Latin language references
    • Stitin, recorded, e.g., in 1251,[11] in the Annales Ryensis,[11] in 1642[13]
    • Stitinum, by Saxo Grammaticus[11]
    • Stittinum
    • Stytin,[11] in the Annales Colbacensis.[11]

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External links

Szczecin travel guide from Wikivoyage