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| Country |  Poland |
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| Voivodeship | Pomeranian | ||
| County | Lębork | ||
| Gmina | Łeba (urban gmina) | ||
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| - Total | 14. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Voivodeship The voivodeship or province (województwo has been a high-level Administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century Pomeranian Voivodeship (also known as Pomerania Province or by its Polish name of województwo pomorskie {{IPA-pl|p|o|'|m|o|r|s|k|j|e}} or simply Pomorskie A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Lębork County (powiat lęborski is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the The gmina or Municipality (frequently translated commune) plural gminy, is the principal unit (lowest level of territorial division in Poland Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 8 km² (5. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 7 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - Total | 3,824 | ||
| - Density | 258. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 4/km² (669. 2/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | 84–360 | ||
| Website: http://www.leba.eu | |||
Łeba [ˈwɛba] (Kashubian/Pomeranian: Leba; German: Leba) is a town in Middle Pomerania, Poland, located near Łebsko Lake and the mouth of the Łeba River at the coast of Baltic sea. Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa; język kaszubski is one of For the Low German dialects also called Pomeranian see Pommersch. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Farther Pomerania or Further Pomerania (Hinterpommern Pomorze Zachodnie is a Pomeranian region roughly stretching from the Oder River in the West Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Łebsko Lake (Lebasee is a coastal Lake in Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland. The Łeba (Leba is a river in Middle Pomerania, Poland, that originates near Kartuzy and empties into the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude.
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History
The settlement of Łeba was first mentioned in 1282. At that time the village was located about two kilometers west from the present mouth of the Łeba River. Łeba received municipal rights in the year 1357. Łeba developed to a fishing port and a wood marketplace.
Łeba was threatened for many centuries by floods and expanding sand dunes. After 1558 Łeba was rebuilt in a safer location. In the 18th century a large port was built on instruction of the Prussian king. The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918 and from 1871 was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising In the course of the harbor construction a 34 meter broad channel between the Łebsko lake and the Baltic Sea was dug. The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude.
In the proximity of Łeba there is a large testing area for long-range rocket weapons. On this area the German long-range rocket Rheinbote was tested between 1941 and 1945. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Rheinbote ( Rhine Messenger) was a German short range ballistic rocket developed during World War II. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Also the V-1 flying bomb was tested here from 1943 to 1945. The Fieseler Fi 103, better known as V-1 (German Vergeltungswaffe 1 was an early Cruise missile used during World War Two Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Between 1963 and 1973 33 Polish sounding rockets of the type Meteor were launched in Łeba (http://www.astronautix.com/sites/leba.htm). Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying Rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during Allegedly, the German general Erwin Rommel practiced desert warfare in the vast dunes of Łeba. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( ( 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (also known as the " Desert Fox " Wüstenfuchs
Famous people
After World War I Łeba became a popular resort for German bohemians. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933 The term bohemian, of French origin was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished Artists Max Pechstein and other expressionists frequented the place. Max Hermann Pechstein ( December 31, 1881 &ndash June 29, 1955) was a German Expressionist painter and Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an Emotional effect it is a subjective art form
Sights
Łeba possesses a few objects of interest:
- ruins of the Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas church) west of the city on the way to the beach
- fishermen's church of 1683
- fishermen's dwellings from the 19th Century in ulica Kosciuszki
- the castle in ulica Sosnowa, today the hotel Neptun
- former rocket test site near Pletka (http://lawrenz.homepage.t-online.de/hp-s10.htm)
- there is an abundance of architectural and natural attractions near Łeba, for instance the Slowinzi national park with the sand dunes, 8 km west of the city. Saint Nicholas (Άγιος Νικόλαος, Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people" is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a Christian Saint The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar
See also
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