Trzcianka ' is a town in the Greater Poland

Greater Poland

Greater Poland or Great Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznań.The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history...

 region in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Since 1999 it has belonged to Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship

Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...

 and Czarnków-Trzcianka County

Czarnków-Trzcianka County

Czarnków-Trzcianka County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the town of Czarnków,...

. Previously it was in Pila Voivodeship

Pila Voivodeship

Piła Voivodeship was a voivodeship in Poland from 1975 to 1998. It was superseded by the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its capital city was Piła.-Major cities and towns :...

 (1975–1998). Trzcianka has 17,131 inhabitants (May 2007). From 1772 to 1945 the town was in Prussia

Prussia

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, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and its name was Schönlanke.

There is a mention of Trzcianka in a document dated 1245. In this year the Polish king Bolesław Wstydliwy gave the land in the valley of Notec

Notec

Noteć is a river in central Poland with a length of 388 km and a basin area of 17,330 km². It is a tributary of the Warta river and lies completely within Poland....

 river to Sedziwoj of Czarnków

Czarnków

Czarnków is a town in Poland in Czarnków-Trzcianka County in Greater Poland Voivodeship, previously in Piła Voivodeship . It has 12,000 inhabitants.The town lies on the Noteć river...

. There were three villages: Biala, Gulcz, and Rozdrozka. Probably, Rodrozka was placed where Trzcianka is today. The new name was Trzciana Laka, which was changed to Trzcionka in the 17th century. Soviet troops marching towards Berlin from the east entered Schönlanke on 27 January 1945. In that course, about 500 people committed suicide.

Famous people

• Michael Solomon Alexander
  Michael Solomon Alexander
  Michael Solomon Alexander was the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.-Life:...
  
  , first Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem
  Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem
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   was born here
• Andrzej Aumiller
  Andrzej Aumiller
  Andrzej Aumiller is a Polish politician, Minister of Construction and Member of Parliament representing Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland . He is a graduate in gardening from the Agriculture Academy in Poznań...
  
   - an MP
  Member of Parliament
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  was born here

External links

• Official page (English, German, Polish)
• Unofficial site of the city ( Polish)