Nowe Kramsko | |
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Village | |
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Nowe Kramsko | |
Coordinates: 52°8′N 15°46′E / 52.133°N 15.767°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Voivodeship | Lubusz |
County | Zielona Góra |
Gmina | Babimost |
Population (approx.) | |
• Total | 854 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 66-111 |
Area code | +48 68 |
Vehicle registration | FZI |
Primary airport | Zielona Góra Airport |
Voivodeship roads | ![]() ![]() |
Nowe Kramsko [ˈnɔvɛ ˈkramskɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Babimost, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Babimost and 28 km (17 mi) north-east of Zielona Góra. It is situated on the northern shore of Lake Wojnowskie.
The Zielona Góra Airport is located in Nowe Kramsko.
History
[edit]Nowe Kramsko was founded in the 13th century. In 1314 it was granted to the Cistercians of Obra. It remained a possession of the Cistercians, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province,[2] until the Second Partition of Poland, when it was annexed by Prussia. Briefly regained by Poles in 1807 as part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, in 1815 it was annexed by Prussia again.[3] Despite the Germanisation policies pursued by the Prussian authorities towards the local population, Polish associations were founded in the village: the Association of Industrialists and Farmers (Towarzystwo Przemysłowców i Rolników) in 1895 and the Catholic Association of Polish Workers (Katolickie Towarzystwo Robotników Polskich) in 1904.[3] In 1912, the Polish Bank Ludowy was founded in the village.[4] On 2–3 February 1919, during the Greater Poland Uprising, the village was the site of the Battle of Nowe Kramsko , won by the Polish insurgents against Germany.
In 1939, the Gestapo carried out an anti-Polish operation in the village, closing down a local Polish farmers' association and a cooperative, and confiscating their files and funds.[5] In 1939, the Germans also carried out arrests of local Polish leaders, activists and school teachers, who were then deported to concentration camps (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[6] Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.
Sights
[edit]Among the historic sights of Nowe Kramsko are the church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with the church cemetery, an old wooden windmill and a manor house, which currently houses a library. There is also a memorial stone dedicated to the Greater Poland insurgents of 1918–19.
Sports
[edit]The local football club is Polonia Nowe Kramsko . It competes in the lower leagues.
Notable people
[edit]- Łucjan Królikowski (1919–2019), Polish Conventual Franciscan, sybirak, centenarian
- Joachim Benyskiewicz (1936–2011), Polish historian
Gallery
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Memorial stone to the Greater Poland insurgents of 1918–19
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Library
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Windmill
References
[edit]- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
- ^ a b "Historia / Babimost". Powiat Zielonogórski – Starostwo Powiatowe w Zielonej Górze (in Polish). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Leksykon Polactwa w Niemczech (in Polish). Opole: Związek Polaków w Niemczech. 1939. p. 36.
- ^ Cygański, Mirosław (1984). "Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939-1945". Przegląd Zachodni (in Polish) (4): 46.
- ^ Cygański, p. 49