Rogoźno

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Field	Value
name	Rogoźno
image_skyline	Saint Vitus Church in Rogozno (4).jpg
image_caption	Saint Vitus Church in Rogoźno
image_flag	POL Rogoźno flag.svg
image_shield	POL Rogoźno COA old.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Oborniki
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Rogoźno
established_title	First mentioned
established_date	1192
established_title2	Town rights
established_date2	1280
area_total_km2	11.24
population_as_of	2021
population_total	10,959
population_density_km2	auto
population_footnotes
coordinates
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
elevation_m	63
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	64-610
website	http://www.rogozno.pl/
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History

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Rogoźno dates back to a Lechitic (proto-Polish) stronghold from the 8th and 9th centuries. Its name is of Medieval Old Polish origin, and comes from the word rogoża, a type of plant. The oldest known mention comes from 1192. From the mid-12th century it was a seat of a castellan. In 1280 it was granted town rights by Przemysł II. King Przemysł II of Poland was murdered in or near Rogoźno in 1296. According to one tradition he was kidnapped while staying at the town, but was so badly wounded in the process that he was unable to continue the journey, and was killed by his captors at Sierniki a few miles to the east. Rogoźno was a royal town of Poland, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

The town was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. The 10th Polish Infantry Regiment was formed in Rogoźno in 1806. In 1815 it was reannexed by Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany.

During the time of Prussian administration, the town was subjected to Germanisation policies. According to the 1910 census, the population of the town was 5,624, of whom 3,203 (57%) reported German as their sole mother tongue, while 2,326 (41%) reported Polish; the Jewish population was 515 (9%). In 1906–1907, local Polish school children protested against Germanisation. In November 1918, Poland regained independence and the Greater Poland uprising (1918–19) broke out, which goal was to reintegrate the town and region with the reborn state. The town was occupied by Polish insurgents on December 31, 1918, and thereafter became part of the Second Polish Republic.

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, which started World War II, the town was invaded by Germany and occupied until 1945. Polish residents were subjected to arrests, massacres and expulsions. Some inhabitants of Rogoźno were among Poles massacred by the Germans in nearby villages of Podlesie Kościelne and Międzylesie. In late 1939, around 900 Poles were expelled from the town and its surroundings. The Germans also established and operated a Nazi prison in the town. The Polish resistance was active in the area, and Poles produced a secret Polish newspaper in nearby Oborniki.

Demographics

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Sports

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

Notable residents

Rudolf Bornhof (1914–1944), Wehrmacht officer
Marcus Jastrow (1829–1903), Talmudic scholar
Antoni Przybylski (1913–1985), Polish-Australian astronomer

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