Mirosławiec [mʲirɔˈswavʲɛt͡s] (German: Märkisch Friedland) is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northwestern Poland, with 2,671 inhabitants (2010).
Mirosławiec | |
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 Immaculate Conception church in Mirosławiec | |
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  Mirosławiec | |
| Coordinates: 53°20′38″N 16°5′14″E / 53.34389°N 16.08722°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship |  West Pomeranian |
| County | Wałcz |
| Gmina | Mirosławiec |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.13 km2 (0.82 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
• Total | 2,671 |
| • Density | 1,300/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 78-650 |
| Area code | +48 67 |
| Vehicle registration | ZWA |
The 12th Air Base of the Polish Air Force is located 5 kilometres (3 miles) north of the town.
History
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Mirosławiec is a former private town, once located in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. It was annexed by Prussia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.
During World War II, the Germans operated a forced labour subcamp of the Stalag II-B prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the town.[2] On 10 February 1945 it was captured by Polish troops.
Mirosławiec was the site of the 2008 Polish Air Force C-295 crash.
Demographics
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People
edit- Akiva Eiger (1761-1837) Rabbi in Märkisch Friedland 1791 until 1815 [4]
- Philipp Phoebus (1804–1880), German physician and pharmacologist
- Benjamin Liebermann (1812-1901), German textile manufacturer
- Heinrich von Friedberg (1813–1895), German jurist and statesman
- Joseph Abraham Stargardt (1822–1885), German businessman
- Julius Wolff (1836–1902), German surgeon
- Fedor Krause (1857-1937) German Neurosurgeon,[5]
See also
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edit- ^ a b Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
- ^ "Les Kommandos". Stalag IIB Hammerstein, Czarne en Pologne (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ Dokumentacja Geograficzna (in Polish). Vol. 3/4. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1967. p. 31.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 09 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "Fedor_krause [Operative Neurosurgery]".
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