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Szamotuły [ʂamɔˈtuwɨ] (German: Samter) is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) northwest of the centre of Poznań. It is the seat of Szamotuły County and of the smaller administrative district Gmina Szamotuły. The population was 19,090 in 2011.

Szamotuły
Historic town center
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Szamotuły
Szamotuły
Coordinates: 52°36′N 16°35′E
Country Poland
Voivodeship Greater Poland
CountySzamotuły County
GminaGmina Szamotuły
Area
 • Total10.11 km2 (3.90 sq mi)
Elevation
115 m (377 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total19,090
 • Density1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
64-500
Vehicle registrationPSZ
Primary airportPoznań–Ławica Airport
Websitehttp://www.szamotuly.pl

History


19th-century view of the Górka Castle
19th-century view of the Górka Castle

Szamotuły was probably founded in the 11th century, and was first mentioned in documents in 1231. Duke Przemysł I of Greater Poland established local fairs before 1257. Szamotuły was granted town rights in 1383 or earlier. It was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[1]

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded and then occupied by Germany. On September 12, 1939, the German Einsatzgruppe VI entered the town to commit various atrocities against Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2] The Germans carried out mass arrests of local Poles under the pretext of "gathering, plotting, mistreating the Volksdeutsche and anti-German activity".[3] Arrested Poles from the town and county were imprisoned in a newly established Nazi prison, and then hundreds were massacred in the nearby Bytyń, Kobylniki and Mędzisko [pl] forests between October 1939 and January 1940.[4] On October 12–13 and December 13, 1939, the Germans also carried out public executions of Poles in the town.[5] In December 1939, the Germans carried out first expulsions of Polish intelligentsia and owners of shops and workshops, which were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[6] Further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1940–1941 and 1944.[7] Despite such circumstances, the Polish resistance movement was active in the town, and structures of the Polish Underground State were organized.[8] The Germans also destroyed the pre-war monument of Polish insurgents of the Greater Poland Uprising.[9] In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. In June 1945, the Home Army carried out a successful attack on a communist prison and liberated captured resistance members.[10]


Sports


The local football club is Sparta Szamotuły. It competes in the lower leagues.


Notable people



International relations


See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns – Sister cities


Szamotuły is twinned with:




References


  1. Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
  2. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 60.
  3. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 116
  4. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 117, 199-200
  5. Wardzyńska (2009), p. 193
  6. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 160. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
  7. Wardzyńska (2017), p. 204, 280, 375
  8. Pietrowicz, Aleksandra (2011). "Konspiracja wielkopolska 1939–1945". Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish). No. 5–6 (126–127). IPN. p. 36. ISSN 1641-9561.
  9. Wardzyńska (2017), p. 143
  10. Łuczak, Agnieszka (2011). "Podziemie niepodległościowe w Wielkopolsce w latach 1945–1956". Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish). No. 5–6 (126–127). IPN. p. 77. ISSN 1641-9561.


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На других языках

[de] Szamotuły

Szamotuły .mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}[ʃamɔ'tuwɨ] (deutsch Samter) ist eine Stadt in der Woiwodschaft Großpolen in Polen. Sie hat etwa 18.750 Einwohner und ist Sitz der gleichnamigen Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde mit 30.188 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2020) sowie Kreisstadt des Powiats Szamotulski. Die Stadt befindet sich 32 km nordwestlich von Posen.
- [en] Szamotuły

[ru] Шамотулы

Шамотулы (польск. Szamotuły) — город в Польше, входит в Великопольское воеводство, Шамотульский повят. Имеет статус городско-сельской гмины. Занимает площадь 10,11 км². Население — 18 778 человек (на 2005 год).


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