Więcbork

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Field	Value
name	Więcbork
image_flag	POL Więcbork flag.svg
image_skyline	Więcbork z lotu ptaka.jpg
image_caption	Aerial view of Więcbork
image_shield	POL Więcbork COA.svg
pushpin_map	Poland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Sępólno
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Więcbork
area_total_km2	4.31
population_as_of	2019
population_total	5965
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	89-410
registration_plate	CSE
blank_name_sec2	Voivodeship roads
blank_info_sec2	[[File:DW189-PL.svg
website	http://www.wiecbork.pl
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History

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After 960 the territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I. It is first mentioned under the name Wanszowna in historical records in the chronicle of Jan of Czarnków in 1383. The first record instance of the name Więcbork occurred in 1405. The town was part of the Kingdom of Poland and it was a private town, which belonged to various Polish magnates. Administratively it was located in the Nakło County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.

After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the town became part of Kingdom of Prussia, under the name Vandsburg. 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, where it was administratively part of the Flatow district (Landkreis Flatow). It was subjected to Germanisation policies and German colonization. Following World War I, Poland regained independence and the town was eventually reintegrated with the re-established Polish Republic after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The town became part of Sępólno County, under the restored Polish name Więcbork.

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Więcbork was invaded by Nazi Germany. During the invasion, the Einsatzgruppe IV entered the town to commit atrocities against Poles. The town was annexed by Germany, and included within the Landkreis Zempelburg (district) under the name Vandsburg. During the German occupation, Poles were subject to persecutions, mass arrests, expulsions and massacres. Numerous Poles were imprisoned in a concentration camp in Radzim and in a prison established by the Selbstschutz in Sępólno Krajeńskie, and later murdered there or deported to other Nazi concentration camps. Mass arrests of Poles were carried out from September 1939. In 1945 the town was restored to Poland.

Number of inhabitants by years

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Neighbourhoods

Więcbork is divided into the following neighbourhoods: Stare Miasto (Old Town), Korea, Lupinek, Plebanka, Osiedle BOWiD, Osiedle Piastowskie, Osiedle Słoneczne, Osiedle Tartaczne.

Sports

Grom Więcbork sports club is based in Więcbork, with football, athletics, weightlifting, chess and duplicate bridge sections.

References

. (2017). "Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany". *Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences*.
Wolfgang Bahr: ''Kurze Geschichte des Flatower Landes''. In: ''Heimatbuch für den Kreis Flatow – Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen – Provinz Pommern''. Heimatkreisausschuss für den Kreis Flatow (ed.), printed by Karl Neef oHG (Wittingen), Gifhorn 1971, pp. 37-42 (in German).
Wardzyńska, Maria. (2009). "Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion". [[Institute of National Remembrance.
Wardzyńska (2009), p. 168
F. W. F. Schmitt: ''Topographie des Flatower Kreises''. In: ''Preußische Provinzialblätter'', ''Andere Folge'', Band VII, Königsberg 1855, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HbMtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116 p. 116] (in German).
''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon''. 6. Auflage, 1909 (in German).
. (1932). "Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego". *Główny Urząd Statystyczny*.
. (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*.
"Grom Więcbork - Oficjalna Strona".

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