Trzcianka

Baroque Revival Church of St. John the Baptist

The settlement, initially named Rozdróżka, was probably founded in the 13th century.[1] It was located on a trade route which connected Poznań and Kołobrzeg.[1] Rozdróżka was mentioned in a document from 1245, when Duke Boleslaus V of Poland gave the land in the Noteć river valley, along with three villages (Biała, Gulcz, and Rozdróżka) to a Polish nobleman named Sędziwój of Czarnków. The new name of these three combined villages was Trzciana Łąka, as it appeared for the first time in 1565, and it was subsequently changed to Trzcianka in the 17th century.

Trzciana Łąka was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown,[2] and in the 17th century it became a settlement of weavers and clothiers.[1] It was owned by the Gembicki family, thanks to which it developed, and in 1679 Andrzej Gembicki referred to it as a town.[1] It was granted town rights by King Augustus II the Strong in 1731.[1] In the mid-18th century it was owned by magnate Stanisław Poniatowski, father of the last Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski, and the Poniatowskis' Ciołek coat of arms is the town's coat of arms since.[1] In the 18th century Trzcianka was one of the leading clothmaking centers in Greater Poland, however, after the late 18th-century Partitions of Poland and the annexation of the town by Prussia, the local economy collapsed.[1]

In 1807 the town was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, in 1815 it was re-annexed by Prussia, and hence became also part of Germany. In the final months of World War II, Soviet troops marching towards Berlin from the east entered the town on 27 January 1945. In that course, about 500 people committed suicide.[3] Following the war the abandoned town was eventually restored to Poland.[1]

There is a local historic museum (Muzeum Ziemi Nadnoteckiej) in Trzcianka.

• Michael Solomon Alexander, first Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem was born here
• Andrzej Aumiller (born 1947), Polish politician, and Member of Parliament was born here
• Krystian Feciuch (born 1989), Polish footballer
• Hubert Mickley (1918–1944), Wehrmacht officer
• Max Raphael (1889–1952), German-American art historian of art of the Upper
• Gustav Ferdinand Mehler (1835-1895), German-Mathematician.

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  Długie Lake
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  Beach on Sarcze Lake
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  Shopping mall
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  Art Nouveau Pedagogical Library

• Official page (English, German, Polish)
• Unofficial site of the city ( Polish)

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