Krajenka

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Krajenka

Coat of arms

Krajenka

Coordinates: 53°18′31″N 16°59′10″E / 53.30861, 16.98611

Country

Poland

Area

- Total

3.77 km² (1.5 sq mi)

Population (2006)

- Total

3,651

- Density

968.4/km² (2,508.2/sq mi)

Postal code

77-430

Website: http://www.krajenka.pl

The town in 19th century West Prussia

Krajenka: the market square

Old Krajenka

Krajenka [kraˈjɛnka] (German: Krojanke) is a town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship of Poland. It has 3,804 inhabitants (2005) and lies in Złotów County.

1 History
2 Historical population
3 Famous residents
4 External links

[edit] History

The first mention of the town is from 1286, back then it belonged to noble family of Danaborskich whose Coat of Arms was Toporzyk. The name of the town itself comes from the Polish word Krajna, which meant in the past a location on the borders of Polish state. Throughout centuries it was connected to Polish royalty and such families as Danaborski, Dahlke, Kościelecki, Grudziński, Działyński, Sułkowski, Komierowski[1].

Madgeburg city rights were granted in 1420 by the Polish king Władysław Jagiełło.

In the period between 1772 and 1945, following the Partitions of Poland, it was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later Germany, as Krojanke in West Prussia. After the last Polish owner of the town Jakub Komierowsk was killed by Prussians in 1809, the town was confiscated by Prussian officials and passed from Polish into German hands[2]. In 1846 a Protestant church was built by the famous German architect Carl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1871 a railway station of the Prussian Eastern Railway (German: Preußische Ostbahn) was built south of the Glumia river. Krojanke then was the property of the Prussian Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia. After 1919, when neighboring areas became part of the Polish Corridor, it was made part of Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen. On 21 June 1924, Krojanke made history within German law as the Reichsgericht confirmed private ownership by Prinz Friedrich Leopold, including Krojanke, where he died in 1931.

In 1945 the Soviet Red Army occupied the almost destroyed town during World War II; many of the inhabitants had fled during the winter of 1944/45.After the war the town was restored to Poland in the Potsdam Conference. Its returning or remaining German population was expelled^{[citation needed]}.