Jastrowie

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Field	Value
name	Jastrowie
image_flag	POL Jastrowie flag.svg
image_shield	POL Jastrowie COA.svg
image_skyline	Przed kościołem NMP mającym cechy romańskiego stylu - panoramio.jpg
image_caption	Church of the Holiest Virgin Mary, the Queen of Poland
pushpin_map	Poland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Złotów
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Jastrowie
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1363
established_title2	Town rights
established_date2	1602
area_total_km2	72.27
population_as_of	2006
population_total	8403
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	64-915
registration_plate	PZL
blank_name_sec2	National roads
blank_info_sec2	[[File:DK11-PL.svg
blank1_name_sec2	Voivodeship roads
blank1_info_sec2	[[File:DW189-PL.svg
website	http://www.jastrowie.pl
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History

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Jastrowie was one of the southernmost centres of the Pomeranians. The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historical ruler, Mieszko I, in the 10th century. At the beginning of the 14th century, it belonged to the Ujście castellany. Jastrowie was a royal village of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. On May 5, 1602, Jastrowie received the town rights granted by Piotr Potulicki and confirmed by King Sigismund III Vasa.

Protestantism was introduced in 1587 when the Catholic pastor converted, and in 1600, the old church was demolished and replaced by a new building. However, the Protestants could only keep the former Catholic parish church until 1619 because that year, the preacher Martin Goldbach converted to Catholicism, after which the church was returned to the Catholics.

In the 17th century, the town developed quickly. New settlers arrived, including Germans from Pomerania, Scots and Jews.

The religious struggle in Jastrowie reached its climax in 1768 when soldiers belonging to the Polish nobleman Roskowski killed the Lutheran preacher Willich.

After the First Partition of Poland, the town was annexed by Prussia. For the time being, the Lutherans went to the church services in the neighboring Pomeranian villages of Zamborst and Flederborn, but later - after 1773 - got their church with the support of the Prussian government. One of the main escape routes for surviving insurgents of the Polish November Uprising from partitioned Poland to the Great Emigration led through the town.

In the 19th century, Jastrowie, then officially called Jastrow in German, became one of the most important centres of horse trade. 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. The Polish resistance conducted espionage on German activity in the town. During the war, the town was an important point of the Pomeranian Wall, one of the most important German lines of fortification in the East. Polish troops eventually captured the town on 2 February 1945 and then restored to Poland.

Currently, Jastrowie is the site of several wood and bicycle factories. It was part of the Piła Voivodeship from 1975 until 1998 when the Greater Poland Voivodeship superseded the administrative region. Jastrowie's most important cultural event is its International Folk Festival, "Bukowińskie Spotkania".

Sites of interest

Town Market (18th century)
Old Town Hall (16th century)
St. Mary's Queen of Poland Church (1882)
Michael's Archangel Church (1913)
Monument to Polish soldiers fallen in the Battle of Jastrowie in 1945
Old townhouses and timber-framed houses

Sports

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

References

. (2017). "Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany". *Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences*.
Umiński, Janusz. (1998). "Losy internowanych na Pomorzu żołnierzy powstania listopadowego".
"Les Kommandos".
. (1998). "Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945". *Instytut Zachodni*.

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