Wschowa

Coordinates: 51°48′N 16°18′E / 51.800°N 16.300°E / 51.800; 16.300
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Wschowa (pronounced

royal city of Poland
, due to its 18th-century history, it is sometimes called the "unofficial capital of Poland".

History

Franciscan monastery

The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler

Hedwig of Żagań was held in Wschowa. The coat of arms contains the double cross of the Jagiellonian dynasty. A municipal school was founded in 1404. In 1456, a Bernardines
monastery was established.

Since the mid-16th century, Wschowa was one of the centres of the

starost Hieronim Radomicki [pl] founded the New Town for the refugees to the north of Wschowa. In the 17th century, Italian Niccolo Bacaralli established in Wschowa the first paint manufacture in Poland.[3]

In the 18th century kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often resided in Wschowa and the town was even called the "unofficial capital of Poland".[3] The Royal Castle hosted meetings of Polish kings with foreign delegations and even sessions of the Senate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were held in Wschowa.[3] In 1737 a concordat between the Holy See and Poland was signed in Wschowa.

The Battle of Fraustadt occurred on February 3, 1706, during the Great Northern War, when Swedish forces defeated a joint army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Saxony and Russia. The 6th Polish Infantry Regiment was stationed in the town.[5] In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and incorporated into the province of South Prussia. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the Duchy of Warsaw, according to the Treaty of Tilsit. Jakob Walter, a Napoleonic soldier claimed to have passed through the town in 1806. He claims the town was used as a garrison and had 99 windmills.[6]

Former Polish Royal Castle

Re-annexed by Prussia and made part of the initially semi-autonomous

Posen-West Prussia border province till 1 October 1938, when the province was dissolved. It became a district center in the Province of Silesia till 1941, from 1941 to 1945 in the Province of Lower Silesia
.

Fraustadt was one of the few areas within pre-war Germany

expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. The town became again part of Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the 1980s. Initially the town was part of Okręg III (comprising present West Pomeranian and Lubusz provinces) between 1945 and 1946. German monuments were removed from the town by the new authorities, including the Protestant cemetery. Also, in 1968, the remains of the former German-Jewish cemetery were destroyed.[8]

Saint Stanislaus church
Medieval town walls
Baroque townhouses at the Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy)
Holy Trinity church
Former Jesuit college
Townhouse near the Market Square and the town fountain

Later, Wschowa was a county (powiat) center in

Zielona Gora Voivodeship between 1950 and 1975. It was finally a commune (gmina) center in Leszno Voivodeship
between 1975 and 1999 before the creation of Lubusz province. It became again a county center after 24 years.

Sports

Wschowa hosted the

2010 edition of the Polish Sidecarcross Grand Prix.[9]

Notable people

Twin towns – sister cities

See twin towns of Gmina Wschowa.

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 2020-03-22.
  2. ^ "Atrakcje turystyczne - Oficjalna Strona Miasta i Gminy Wschowa". www.wschowa.pl. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Łukasz Zalesiński. "Miasto królów, miasto byka". Onet Podróże (in Polish). Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  4. ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
  5. ^ Gembarzewski, Bronisław (1925). Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831 (in Polish). Warszawa: Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej. p. 28.
  6. ^ The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter
  7. ^ "Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Schlesien, Kreis Fraustadt". treemagic.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  8. ^
    ISBN 3-447-04800-X
    .
  9. ^ FIM Sidecarcross World Championship - 2010 Calendar Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine FIM website, accessed: 30 October 2009

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