Sieraków

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Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

title: "Sieraków" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-greater-poland-voivodeship", "międzychód-county", "populated-lakeshore-places-in-poland", "populated-places-on-the-warta"] description: "Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieraków" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland ::

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Field	Value
name	Sieraków
image_skyline	ZespółKlasztorny.jpg
image_caption	Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the Bernardine monastery
image_shield	POL Sieraków COA.svg
image_flag	POL Sieraków flag.svg
image_blank_emblem	LOGO SIERAKOW.svg
blank_emblem_type	Wordmark
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland Voivodeship
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Międzychód
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Sieraków
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Witold Bruno Maciołek
established_title	Established
established_date	13th century
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	before 1388
area_total_km2	14.1
population_as_of	2012
population_total	8768
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
elevation_m	31
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	64-410
area_code	+48 61
registration_plate	PMI
blank_name_sec2	Voivodeship roads
blank_info_sec2	[[File:DW133-PL.svg
website	http://www.sierakow.pl
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History

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As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. It was a private town, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.

During the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Sieraków, under its Germanized name Zirke was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia. The local population was subjected to Germanisation policies. In 1871, it also became part of Germany and was located in the Birnbaum district in the Prussian Province of Posen. According to the census of 1871, the town had a population of 2,527, of which 1,130 (44.7%) were Poles.

The town was captured by Polish insurgents in the Greater Poland uprising in 1919 and was subsequently assigned to the Second Polish Republic through the Treaty of Versailles. During World War II in 1939, the town was occupied by Nazi Germany and was annexed as part of the Birnbaum district in Reichsgau Wartheland. In 1939–1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose houses were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. The Polish resistance was active in the town. The leader of the local unit of the Grey Ranks was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to prisons in Poznań and eventually to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he died in 1944. Towards the end of the war in 1945, it was captured by the Red Army and was restored to Poland.

In 1975–1998, it was administratively located in the Poznań Voivodeship.

Demographics

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Notable residents

Lewis Naphtali Dembitz (1833–1907), German American legal scholar
Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi
Hartmut Neugebauer (1942-2017) German actor and voice actor
Krzysztof Opaliński (1611-1655), Polish nobleman and political satirist

Gallery

File:Sieraków - zamek Opalińskich ( XIVw. ), obecnie muzeum - panoramio.jpg|Opaliński Castle Museum File:Sierakow-sarkofagi1.jpg|Opaliński family sarcophagus in castle's basement File:Powstańców Square in Sieraków - IMG 3442.jpg|Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich (main square) File:Jezioro Jaroszewskie lato 2.jpg|Jaroszewskie Lake

References

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Neumann, Gustav. (1874). "Das Deutsche Reich in geographischer, statistischer und topographischer Beziehung". Müller.
Wardzyńska, Maria. (2017). "Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945". [[Institute of National Remembrance.
. (1998). "Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945". *Instytut Zachodni*.
. (1932). "Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego". *Główny Urząd Statystyczny*.
. (1967). "Dokumentacja Geograficzna". *Instytut Geografii [[Polish Academy of Sciences*.
. (2011). ["Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r."](https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_l_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2010.pdf). *Główny Urząd Statystyczny*.

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