Śmigiel

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nameŚmigiel
image_flagPOL Śmigiel flag.svg
image_shieldPOL Śmigiel COA.svg
image_skyline20150908 ch321 smigiel shot-square-mk-a-pp.jpg
image_captionOld houses at Plac Rozstrzelanych in Śmigiel
pushpin_mapPoland
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Voivodeship
subdivision_name1Greater Poland
subdivision_type2County
subdivision_name2Kościan
subdivision_type3Gmina
subdivision_name3Śmigiel
area_total_km25.2
population_as_of2010
population_total5536
population_footnotes
population_density_km2auto
coordinates
timezoneCET
utc_offset+1
timezone_DSTCEST
utc_offset_DST+2
postal_code_typePostal code
postal_code64-030
registration_platePKS
websitehttps://www.smigiel.pl
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| name = Śmigiel | image_flag = POL Śmigiel flag.svg | image_shield = POL Śmigiel COA.svg | image_skyline = 20150908 ch321 smigiel shot-square-mk-a-pp.jpg | image_caption = Old houses at Plac Rozstrzelanych in Śmigiel | pushpin_map = Poland | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = Greater Poland | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Kościan | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Śmigiel | area_total_km2 = 5.2 | population_as_of = 2010 | population_total = 5536 | population_footnotes = | population_density_km2 = auto | coordinates = | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 64-030 | registration_plate = PKS | website = https://www.smigiel.pl Śmigiel () is a town in Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 5,536 inhabitants (2010).

History

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Śmigiel was granted town rights in 1415 or perhaps earlier. It was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. It 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. It was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, and included within Germany in 1871. While part of Prussia and Germany, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel in the Grand Duchy of Posen/Province of Posen. As Poland regained independence following World War I in 1918, the town was reintegrated with Poland, and local Poles joined the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), which aim was to reintegrate the entire region of Greater Poland with the reborn state. Among the insurgents were future mayors Władysław Pioch and Maksymilian Stachowiak. Władysław Pioch co-organized the local Polish administration.

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was captured by Germany after a Polish defense, co-organized by the local mayor Władysław Pioch. Among the victims were pre-way mayors Władysław Pioch and Maksymilian Stachowiak, local Polish activists, intelligentsia and former insurgents of the Greater Poland Uprising. In 1940, Germany expelled 500 Poles to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), and their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy. Also a transit camp for Poles expelled from nearby villages was operated in the town. The German occupation ended in 1945.

Demographics

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Transport

Śmigiel is bypassed to the east by the S5 expressway. Exits 42 and 41 of the expressway provide for quick access to Poznań and Wrocław.

Sports

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

People associated with the town

Gallery

20150908 baa smigiel ul farna kosciol-mk-a.jpg|Church of the Assumption of Mary SM Śmigiel Wiatraki 2019 (4).jpg|Old windmills 20150908 ag321 smigiel urzad miejski-mk-b.jpg|Town hall 20150908 cr smigiel wiatrak shot-square-mk-a.jpg|Plac Rozstrzelanych

References

References

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