Międzychód

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Field	Value
name	Międzychód
image_skyline	Międzychód Rynek 3 19. 08. 2013 p.jpg
image_caption	Market Square
image_flag	Flaga_Międzychodu.jpg
image_shield	POL gmina Międzychód COA.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland Voivodeship
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Międzychód
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Międzychód
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1378
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	before 1400
area_total_km2	6.98
population_as_of	2010
population_total	10844
population_footnotes
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
registration_plate	PMI
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	64-400
website	www.miedzychod.pl
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History

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The town was first mentioned as Międzybrud (after Polish między, "between", bród, "ford") in a 1378 deed. It was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. It was a settlement area for German artisans and merchants moving into the Polish lands from the adjacent Neumark region. In the 1793 Second Partition of Poland, Międzychód together with the bulk of Greater Poland was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia as Birnbaum. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815 it was reannexed by Prussia, incorporated as the capital of the Kreis Birnbaum in the Regierungsbezirk of Posen, part of the Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen, and from 1871 to 1919 it was also part of Germany. According to the 1910 census, the population of the town was 5,274, of whom 4,500 (85%) reported German as their sole mother tongue, while 749 (14%) reported Polish; the Jewish population was 115 (2%).

Upon the German defeat in World War I, the area was ceded to the newly established Second Polish Republic according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, with Międzychód as the westernmost town in Poland, administratively located in the Poznań Voivodeship. In the 1930s, members of the German-speaking population helped create a list of local Poles intended for persecution in the event of the German invasion and occupation. The town was again annexed by Nazi Germany and incorporated into the Reichsgau Wartheland upon the 1939 Invasion of Poland, which started World War II. During the German occupation, Poles from Międzychód were among the victims of large massacres carried out in November 1939 in Mędzisko as part of the Intelligenzaktion. The Germans carried out expulsions of Poles, whoses houses were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. Germany established and operated a Nazi prison in the town. In August 1944, the Germans carried out mass arrests of local members of the Home Army, the leading Polish underground resistance organization. Międzychód returned to Poland after World War II in 1945, while the German minority was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.

In recent years the town's economy increasingly has relied as a resort for tourism on the surrounding lakes of the Warta valley.

Demographics

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Notable people

Manuel Joël (1826–1890), rabbi and philosopher
Hermann Tietz (1834–?), rabbi
Hermann Tietz (1837–1907), merchant ("Hertie" department stores)
Leonhard Tietz (1849–1914), his nephew, merchant ("Kaufhof")
Oscar Tietz (1858–1923), his brother, merchant
Lesser Ury (1861–1931), Impressionist painter
Carl Hermann Busse (1872–1918), German lyric poet

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Wardzyńska, Maria. (2009). "Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion". [[Institute of National Remembrance.
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Ptakowska-Sysło, Agnieszka. (2011). "Konspiracja chodzieska 1939–1944". IPN.
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