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Wejherowo
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  Wejherowo | |||
| Coordinates: 54°36′N 18°15′E / 54.600°N 18.250°E / 54.600; 18.250 | |||
| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Pomeranian | ||
| County | Wejherowo County | ||
| Gmina | Wejherowo (urban gmina) |
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| Established | 1643 | ||
| Town rights | 1650 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Krzysztof Hildebrandt | ||
| Area | |||
| • City | 25.65 km2 (9.90 sq mi) | ||
| Highest elevation |
110 m (360 ft) | ||
| Lowest elevation |
24 m (79 ft) | ||
| Population (2012) | |||
| • City | 50,310 | ||
| • Density | 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi) | ||
| • Metro |
130,000 | ||
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
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| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
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| Postal code | 84-200 to 84-204 |
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| Area code(s) | +48 58 | ||
| Car plates | GWE | ||
| Website | http://www.wejherowo.pl | ||
Wejherowo [vɛi̯xɛˈrɔvɔ] (Kashubian: Wejrowò, German: Neustadt in Westpreußen) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 50,310 inhabitants (2012). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a city in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).
Contents
1 Geographical location
2 History
2.1 Number of inhabitants by year
3 Culture
4 Education
5 Notable people
6 International relations
7 References
8 External links
Geographical location
Wejherowo is located in Pomeralia, approximately 11 km (7 mi) west of the town of Rumia,
32 kilometres (20 miles) east of the town of Lębork and 35 km (22 mi) north-west of the regional metropole of Gdańsk, in the broad glacial valley of the river Rheda at an altitude of 30 metres (98 feet) above sea level.
History
Jakub Wejher, the founder of Wejherowo
Wejherowo was founded in 1643 as Wola Wejherowska (literally "Wejher's Wola"), by the voivode of the Malbork Voivodeship, and Polish noble, Jakub Wejher (Jakob Weiher). It was translated in the colloquial German of the time as Weihersfrey or Veyersfrey. According to the founder's will, the dwellers of the new settlement were to possess the same city rights as other towns in the region, hence the place granted Kulm law. The town's privileges, received in 1655, were confirmed by King John II Casimir Vasa of Poland on the Reichstag.[citation needed]
Wejher, who survived the Smolensk War, built two churches in the new settlement (The Holy Trinity and Saint Ann). He also brought in Franciscan fathers, built a monastery, and founded a calvary, consisting of 26 chapels, aligned along the border of the town forest, which were built during 1646–55. According to the founder's written statement of 1655, all honorable persons, independent of their nationality, were invited to become citizens of the new settlement if they would pay a citizen fee of ten gulden each.
In the First Partition of Poland in 1772, in which the Kingdom of Prussia annexed Pomerelia, the town was incorporated into the Kingdom, and administered within the new province of West Prussia. Its name in German changed from Weyersfrey to Neustadt in Westpreußen, a name which was in use also before. The affix "in West Prussia" was added to the town's name in order to avoid confusion with a number of other towns carrying the same name. Decisive factors which boosted the development of the town in the 19th century were the 1818 establishment of Landkreis Neustadt, an administrative district, and the construction of the Danzig (Gdańsk) – Stettin (Szczecin) railway line, to which Neustadt was connected with a train station in 1870. Neustadt became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany. During the second half of the 19th century, a significant number of Jewish families from the region began migrating to Syracuse, New York, including the renowned Shubert theatrical family. The Poles formed 59.3% of population in the district area of the city around this time.[1] The city itself, however, was predominantly German with a Polish minority of 5 % in 1890.[2]
Historical architecture of the Old Town
In 1905 "Neustadt" had a Protestant church, two Catholic churches, a synagogue, a grammar school, a preparatory school for a training college for school teachers, a training college for evangelical school teachers, a mental asylum, a local court, a forest office, cigarette factories, sawmills, a brewery, a cattle trade and wood trade as well as grain trade.[3] During the Partitions the German authorities led a systemic campaign of Germanization against local the Polish and Kashubian populations, which resisted by organizing the secret patriotic organization Zwiazek Filomatow, distributing the Polish newspaper Gazeta Gdanska, and by establishing various local economic initiatives[4]
Until 1919 Neustadt belonged to the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the Province of West Prussia in Germany. After World War I the town was integrated into the Second Polish Republic. Wejherowo was the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship, becoming a headquarters of state administration responsible for the maritime economy. After the invasion of Poland at the beginning World War II, Wejherowo was annexed by the Third Reich and became part of Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
An 18th-century timber-framed home (left)
Trinity Church, 1754-1755
Town Hall
Most of the town's Jewish community was murdered by the Nazis during the war, while many local Poles were also victims of the Nazi extermination policy.[4] The nearby village of Piaśnica Wielka was the site of a mass murder where about 12,000 Poles were shot in 1939. During World War II Neustadt was occupied by the Red Army. After the end of war, in 1945, Neustadt was placed under Polish administration under its Polish name Wejherowo.
Number of inhabitants by year
| Year |
Number |
Remarks |
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| 1789 | 700 | |
| 1831 | 1,690 | [5] |
| 1845 | 1,800 | [6] |
| 1853 | 2,500 | [7] |
| 1865 | 3,200 | [8] |
| 1875 | 4,506 | [9] |
| 1880 | 4,715 | [9] |
| 1890 | 5,546 | incl. 2,336 Protestants, 3,039 Catholics and 160 Jews[10] (240 Poles[9]) |
| 1905 | 8,389 | incl. 3,044 Protestants, 5,171 Catholics, 26 other Christians and 148 Jews |
| 1921 | 8,786 | |
| 1943 | 16,490 | |
| 1948 | 13,400 | |
| 1960 | 24,500 | |
| 1970 | 33,800 | |
| 1980 | 42,400 | |
| 1990 | 46,800 | |
| 2000 | 46,200 | |
| 2006 | 47,159 | |
| 2011 | 49,922 |
Culture
Museum of Kashubian and Pomeranian Writing and Music.
Education
- Kaszubsko-Pomorska Szkoła Wyższa
Notable people
Dorota Maslowska, 2017
Marta Jeschke, 2010
Hugo Blaschke (1881–1959) a German dental surgeon, Adolf Hitler’s personal dentist
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940) a German technician; invented the Nipkow disk early TV transmission technology
Paul Peter Rhode (1871–1945) a Kashubian German-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
Henryk Szczepański (1933-2015) footballer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics
Henryk Dampc (1935–2004) a Polish amateur boxer, competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Ryszard Kunze (born 1939) a Polish fencer, competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics
Hubert Skrzypczak (born 1943) a boxer from Poland, competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
Jerzy Budnik (born 1951), politician
Tomasz Pohl (born 1968) poet, author of songs, publicist and animator of culture- Marcin Miotk (pl) (born 1973), mountaineer
Kinga Baranowska (born 1975), mountaineer, she climbs without the use of supplemental oxygen
Dorota Masłowska (born 1983) a Polish writer, playwright, columnist and journalist
Marta Jeschke (born 1986) a Polish 200 metre sprinter, competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
Małgorzata Ławrynowicz (born 1988) a Polish group rhythmic gymnast, participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Paweł Poljański (born 1990) a professional racing cyclist
International relations
Wejherowo is twinned with:
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References
^ Polski ruch narodowy w prusach zachodnich w latach: 1860-1914 Szczepan Wierzchosławski page 19 Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1980
^ Handbuch der historischen Stätten, Ost und Westpreußen (Stuttgart 1981), p. 157.
^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, Vol 14, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, p. 580, no. 21.
^ ab Wejherowo historia miasta
^ August Eduard Preuß: Preußische Landes- und Volkskunde. Königsberg 1835, pp. 411–412, no. 27.
^ Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit (H. A. Pierer, ed.), 2nd edition, Vol. 19, Altenburg 1845, p. 407, no. 14.
^ Conversations-Lexikon, 10th edition, Vol. 11, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853, p. 163
^ Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon, 2nd edition, Vol. 11, Hildburghausen 1865, p. 1085, no. 17.
^ abc Michael Rademacher: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Provinz Westpreußen, Kreis Neustadt (2006).
^ Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th edition, Vol. 12, Berlin and Vienna 1894, p. 289, no. 32
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wejherowo. |
Official web page of Wejherowo (in English)
- Wejherowo homepage. "Throughout the centuries."
wejher.com - news, photos, bulletin board (in Polish)
- Wejherowo Land
- Following the trail of manor houses and castles of the Northern Kashubian Region
- Northern Kashubia Heritage
Coordinates: 54°36′N 18°14′E / 54.600°N 18.233°E / 54.600; 18.233
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