Drawsko Pomorskie
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Drawsko Pomorskie
Coordinates: 53°32′N 15°48′E / 53.533, 15.8
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
County	Drawsko
Gmina	Drawsko Pomorskie
Established	7th century
Town rights	1297
Government
- Mayor	Zbigniew Ptak
Area
- Total	22. 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 West Pomeranian Voivodeship (also known by its Polish name of województwo zachodniopomorskie or simply Zachodniopomorskie) is a voivodeship A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County Drawsko County (powiat drawski is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland The gmina or Municipality (frequently translated commune) plural gminy, is the principal unit (lowest level of territorial division in Poland Gmina Drawsko Pomorskie is an urban-rural Gmina (administrative district in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland The 7th century is the period from 601 to 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 24 km² (8. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 6 sq mi)
Elevation	160 m (525 ft)
Population (2006)
- Total	11,465
- Density	515. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 5/km² (1,335. 2/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	78-500
Area code(s)	+48 94
Car plates	ZDR
Website: http://www.drawsko.pl/

Drawsko Pomorskie [ˈdrafskɔ pɔˈmɔrskjɛ] (German: Dramburg) is a town in northwestern Poland, with 17,440 inhabitants. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks In common with many Countries, Polish car number plates indicate the Region of Registration of the Vehicle encoded in the number plate The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland

Originally inhabited by Slavs, the settlement was colonized by Germans during the Middle Ages. In 1945 it became part of Poland.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Population 4 Sister cities 5 Photo gallery 6 References 7 External links

Geography

Located in the southeast of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999) in the region of the Pomeranian mountain crest, Drawsko Pomorskie is the capital of Drawsko County. West Pomeranian Voivodeship (also known by its Polish name of województwo zachodniopomorskie or simply Zachodniopomorskie) is a voivodeship Drawsko County (powiat drawski is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( Powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland Drawsko lies near the headwater of the Drawa, west of an expansive woodland which includes the protected area called Drawsko Landscape Park. Drawa is a River in north-western Poland, a tributary of the Notec river (near Krzyz Wielkopolski) with a length of 186 kilometres (20th longest Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their environmental cultural or similar value Drawsko Landscape Park ( Drawski Park Krajobrazowy) is a Protected area ( Landscape Park) in north-western Poland, established in 1979 covering The city of Szczecin is 100 km to the west. A large training ground near the town is frequently used in NATO exercises. The North Atlantic Treaty

History

From the 7th-13th centuries a Slavic fortified settlement existed along the Drawa, a few kilometers north of Lake Lubie. In the 10th century the region was under the sovereignty of Duke Mieszko I of Poland and later came under the control of the Dukes of Pomerania. Life In 965 Mieszko married Dobrawa (Dobrava Dubrawka daughter of Boleslav I, Duke of Bohemia. Pomerania is a geographical region in northern Poland and Germany, on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. In the 13th century Drawsko was a fortress of Przemysł I of Greater Poland, but after his death under questionable circumstances the settlement was inherited by the Ascanian Margraviate of Brandenburg. Przemysł I ( June 5 1220 / June 4 1221 &ndash June 4, 1257) was a duke of Greater Poland. Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska (Großpolen Latin: Polonia Maior) is a historical region of west-central Poland The House of Ascania (Askanier was a Dynasty of German rulers The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg was a major Principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 Premonstratensian monks from Kloster Belbuck, a monastery near Trzebiatów, were invited to found a monastery in their new territory of Drawsko. The Norbertines, also known as the Premonstratensians (OPraem and in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons (from the colour of Trzebiatów (Treptow an der Rega is a Town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. These plans failed, however, as the desired location was too far from Belbuck and the monks saw the wilderness as unsuitable.

The margraves planned to expand upon a settlement already developing near the fortress of Drawsko. Arnold, Konrad, and Johann von Golz, all knights from Prenzlau, were granted the right by the margraves to develop the settlement into a town known as Drawenborch (Dramburg). Prenzlau is a City in the Uckermark District of Brandenburg, Germany. It grew after the arrival of German colonists, allowing the margraves to grant it Magdeburg city rights in 1297. This article covers the medieval eastward migrations of Germans Magdeburg Rights (Magdeburger Recht or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with To further develop the new town of Dramburg, Margrave Louis I released the town from all duties from 1338-1350. Louis V Duke of Bavaria, called the Brandenburger (May 1315 &ndash 18 September 1361 in Zorneding near Munich) was Duke of In the latter year the town was ceded as a fief to the noble Wedell family. The German nobility (Adel was the elite hereditary ruling class or aristocratic class in the Holy Roman Empire and what is now Germany. On February 13, 1368 Dramburg was the setting of a peace treaty between Margrave Otto V and King Casimir III of Poland. Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Otto V Duke of Bavaria (1346 – November 15, 1379) was duke of Bavaria and margrave-elector of Brandenburg. Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz Wielki April 30 1310 – November 5 1370 last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty (1333–1370 was the son of King Władysław The influx of colonists began to cease, although by the end of the 14th century the Dramburger Neustadt ("new town") had developed on the southern shore of the Drawa. In 1402 Margrave Sigismund pawned the town along with the rest of the Neumark to the Teutonic Knights, who returned the region in 1455. For other nobles of the same name please see Sigismund. Sigismund ( February 14, 1368 – December 9, The Neumark ( also known as the New March (Nowa Marchia or East Brandenburg ( was a region of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. The red eagle of the town's coat of arms was taken from the coat of arms of Brandenburg. This article is about the Coat of arms of the German state of Brandenburg. ^[1]

In 1537 the former Francisan monk Faustinus Schliepe introduced Lutheranism to Dramburg during the Protestant Reformation. The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time From 1540 the town was administered by the Order of St. John in Germany (until 1808). The Order of St John in Germany is known as "der Johanniterorden", and officially known as the Brandenburg Bailiwick of the Knights' Order of the Hospital A great fire destroyed a wide section of Dramburg in 1620, leaving only five houses unscathed, while five years later numerous citizens died from plague. In 1638 during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish colonel Beer plundered and pillaged Dramburg. For the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War see Char Bouba war. For the band see The 30 Years War. Sweden was between 1611 and 1718 one of the Great powers of Europe Despite that setback, the town's economic advantages allowed it to recuperate quickly. Dramburg had Stapelrecht, giving it the right to force merchants traveling on the Drawa to offer their wares, such as Kolberg salt, for sale at Dramburg's markets. Kołobrzeg (Kolberg Kòłobrzeg Cholbergensis is a City in Middle Pomerania in north-western Poland with some 50000 inhabitants (as of Salt is a Dietary mineral composed primarily of Sodium chloride that is essential for Animal life but toxic to most land plants Wool-weaving and shoe-making were also important craft industries during the Middle Ages.

Dramburg became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. 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 With the reorganization of the Prussian provinces in 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, Dramburg left the Neumark and in 1818 became the seat of Landkreis Dramburg in Regierungzbezirk Köslin, Province of Pomerania. The Provinces of Prussia constituted the main administrative divisions of Prussia. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions For the present-day Polish provinces see Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Dramburg joined the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany. The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from 1871 to 1918 when it was a semi- Constitutional monarchy: beginning with the Unification The unification of Germany took place on January 18, 1871, when Prussian Chief Minister Otto von Bismarck managed to unify a number of independent

In 1877 the Pommersche Zentralbahn (Pomeranian Central Railway) became connected to the town, which was also connected in 1896 to the Saatziger Kleinbahnnetz (Saatzig District railroad network). Dramburg's access to the railroads led to the establishment of wood and textile industries. This led the Pommersche Saatzucht Gesellschaft based in Stettin to use the Dramburg region as a testing area for its plant breeding experiments. Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the genetics of plants for the benefit of humankind

Parts of the eastern German Empire were granted to the Second Polish Republic following the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. The Second Polish Republic or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Many Germans subsequently immigrated to Dramburg, expanding settlement in the south of the town. When the province of Posen-West Prussia was disbanded in 1938, Dramburg became part of Regierungsbezirk Schneidemühl. The border province of Posen-West Prussia (Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen was a province of the Free State of Prussia. During World War II, the SS established a large training school for motorcyclists and mechanics in Dramburg. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the On March 4, 1945 Soviet and Polish troops captured the city, whose center was largely destroyed during the fighting. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Eastern Front of World War II (die Ostfront 1941-1945, der Rußlandfeldzug 1941-1945 (Russian campaign or der Ostfeldzug 1941-1945 (Eastern Campaign

Polish authorities began administering the town on March 6, 1945. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The town was granted to Poland according to the Potsdam Conference and German-speaking citizens were expelled. The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16, The expulsion of Germans after World War II was the Forced migration and Ethnic cleansing of German nationals ( Reichsdeutsche) and ethnic The town, renamed Drawsko Pomorskie in 1950, was the administrative seat of a powiat until 1975. A powiat (pronounced; Polish plural powiaty) is the second-level unit of Local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a County After the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998, Drawsko became a district seat again in 1999.

Population

Sister cities

• Strasburg (Uckermark) (Germany)

Photo gallery

Church

Great window in the church

Market-square with church

River Drawa

References

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of May 26, 2006. Drawsko Pomorskie (Dramburg is a Town in northwestern Poland, with 17440 inhabitants Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

External links

• Municipal website (Polish)
• Portal (Polish)
• Heimatgruppe Dramburg in Pommern (German)
• Dramburg on historical map of Pomerania

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