Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Rynek (Market Square)
Brodnicka Gate
St. Thomas' Basilica
Town Hall
Townhouses at the Market Square
  • From top, left to right: Former Protestant church at the Market Square
  • Brodnicka Gate
  • St. Thomas' Basilica
  • Town Hall
  • Townhouses at the Market Square
Flag of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Flag
Coat of arms of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Coat of arms
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is located in Poland
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is located in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Coordinates: 53°25′32″N 19°35′16″E / 53.42556°N 19.58778°E / 53.42556; 19.58778
Country Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
CountyNowe Miasto
GminaNowe Miasto Lubawskie (urban gmina)
Established1325
Town rights1325
Government
 • MayorJózef Blank
Area
 • Total11.37 km2 (4.39 sq mi)
Elevation
82 m (269 ft)
Population
 (2016)
 • Total11,062
 • Density970/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
13-300
Area code+48 56
Car platesNNM
Voivodeship roads
Websitewww.umnowemiasto.pl

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Polish: [ˈnɔvɛ ˈmjastɔ luˈbafskʲɛ]; German: Neumark in Westpreußen) is a town in northern Poland, situated on the River Drwęca. The total population in June 2018 was 11,062. Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is the capital of Nowe Miasto County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

Geographical location

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie lies on the right (west) bank of the upper course of the River Drwęca in Chełmno Land in the historic region of Pomerania, some 15 km south-west of the town of Lubawa, 70 km south-west of the town of Olsztyn, and 120 km south-east of the region's capital, Gdańsk.

History

Medieval Lubawska Gate (Brama Lubawska)

Early history involved settlement by early Slavic peoples; later settlement was by Old Prussians who were conquered by Polish ruler Bolesław Krzywousty.[1] In 1310 the Teutonic Order invaded and occupied the region of Gdańsk Pomerania and Otto von Luttenberg, commander of Culm (Chełmno), founded the settlement in 1325. It was known under the names Nuwenmarkt, Novum Forum and Nowy Targ.[1] Between 1334–43 it was the seat of a Vogt of the Teutonic Order. It adopted Kulm law in 1353.

During the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, in 1410, the town briefly became part of Poland due to result of local fighting, and remained so until the 1411 peace treaty. In 1440, the town was a founding member of the Prussian Confederation, an association of towns and gentry that opposed the policies of the Order and wanted the region to become part of Poland. In 1454, the association asked Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon to incorporate the region into the Kingdom of Poland, to which the King agreed and signed the act of incorporation in Kraków in 1454.[2] In the Second Peace of Thorn (1466) the Teutonic Order renounced any claims to the area, and the reincorporation of the town into the Kingdom of Poland was confirmed. Administratively, it was part of the Chełmno Voivodeship in the province of Royal Prussia (which after 1569 was itself part of the province of Greater Poland). During the Reformation, in 1581 the parish church, which is almost as old as the town itself, became evangelical. In the 18th century the town was still surrounded by a town wall and by a rampart, and the parish church was Catholic.[3] A Protestant church was built in 1824.

In the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia, and as Neumark it was included to the newly formed province of West Prussia. It was briefly regained by the Poles and was part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw between 1807 and 1815, and later it, again, fell under Prussian rule. The population was subjected to Germanisation policies. In October 1831, various Polish infantry units of the November Uprising stopped in the town on the way to their internment places.[4] At the end of the 19th century, the town was capital of Landkreis Löbau in the Prussian administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in West Prussia, where it remained until 1919. According to the German census of 1890, the town had a population of 2,723, of which 800 (29.4%) were Poles.[5] It had a Lutheran and a Catholic church, a Progymnasium, a court, a steam mill with grain trading, and (as of 1885) 2,678 inhabitants. The monastery Maria-Lonk was nearby. Around 1908 the town also had a dairy, an electric power plant, three sawmills and brickwork.[6]

Following World War I, in 1918, Poland regained independence, and after the Treaty of Versailles became effective in January 1920, the town was reintegrated with Poland. Within the Second Polish Republic, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie was the capital of Nowe Miasto County (Polish: powiat nowomiejski) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.

A monument commemorating 150 Poles murdered by the Nazi Germans in the Bratian forest massacre

On 3 September 1939, during the German Invasion of Poland which started World War II, the town and area were captured and then occupied by Germany. Afterwards 2,500 civilians were murdered in actions carried out by the SS and units made up from German minority's militia, the Selbstschutz.[1] Under German occupation, from 26 October 1939 to 1945, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie was annexed directly to Germany and administratively made part of the Landkreis Löbau/Neumark in the newly formed province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. On 21 January 1945 the town was captured by the Red Army. After the war the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime which stayed in power until the 1980s (see People's Republic of Poland).

Elementary school
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1789809—    
18311,188+46.8%
18752,371+99.6%
18802,742+15.6%
18852,678−2.3%
18902,723+1.7%
19053,800+39.6%
19104,144+9.1%
19213,721−10.2%
19434,884+31.3%
200611,036+126.0%
201111,162+1.1%
Sources:[3][6][7][8]

Sports

The local football club is Drwęca Nowe Miasto Lubawskie. It competes in the lower leagues.

Famous people

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is twinned with:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "O Mieście Urząd Nowego Miasta Lubawskiego". umnowemiasto.pl. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04.
  2. ↑ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. p. 54.
  3. 1 2 Goldbeck, Johann Friedrich (1789). Vollständige Topographie des Königreichs Preußen, Part II. Marienwerder. pp. 45–46.
  4. ↑ Kasparek, Norbert (2014). "Żołnierze polscy w Prusach po upadku powstania listopadowego. Powroty do kraju i wyjazdy na emigrację". In Katafiasz, Tomasz (ed.). Na tułaczym szlaku... Powstańcy Listopadowi na Pomorzu (in Polish). Koszalin: Muzeum w Koszalinie, Archiwum Państwowe w Koszalinie. p. 138.
  5. ↑ "Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Westpreussen, Kreis Loebau". treemagic.org. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  6. 1 2 Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Vol. 14 (6th ed.). Leipzig and Vienna. 1908. pp. 565–566.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Rademacher, Michael (2006). "Provinz Westpreußen, Kreis Löbau/Neumark" [German administrative history of the province of West Prussia, district of Löbau/Neumark]. Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-07-12.
  8. ↑ Preuß, August Eduard (1835). Preußische Landes- und Volkskunde. Königsberg. p. 436.
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