Biały Bór

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Biały Bór

Coat of arms

Biały Bór

Coordinates: 53°53′55″N 16°50′16″E / 53.89861°N 16.83778°E

Country

Poland

Voivodeship

Area

• Total

12.76 km² (4.93 sq mi)

Population (2006)

• Total

2,127

• Density

170/km² (430/sq mi)

Postal code

78-425

Website

http://miastoigminabialybor.portal.esp.parseta.pl/

Biały Bór [ˈbʲawɨ ˈbur] ( listen) (German: Baldenburg) is a town in Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,137 inhabitants (2004). Until 1945 it was part of Germany.

Located since 1309 in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights, the town (as Baldenburg) had received German Kulm law city rights in 1395.

Notable residents

Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker (1865-1924), World War I general, born in Baldenburg

External links

Official town webpage
Jewish Community in Biały Bór on Virtual Shtetl

Coordinates: 53°54′N 16°50′E / 53.900°N 16.833°E / 53.900; 16.833

v t e Gmina Biały Bór

Town and seat	Biały Bór

Villages	Bagniewko Biała Białka Biały Dwór Bielica Biskupice Biskupice-Kolonia Błogowo Borzęcino Brzeźnica Cieszęcino Cybulin Dalkowo Dołgie Domaradz Donimierz Drzonowo Dyminek Grabowo Jawory Kaliska Kamienna Kazimierz Kierzkowo Koleśnik Kołtki Kosobudy Linowo Lubiesz Miłkowo Miłobądz Ponikwa Przybrda Radzewo Rosłonki Rzyszczewko Sępolno Małe Sępolno Wielkie Stępień Stepno Świerszczewo Trzebiele Zduny

Geography of Pomerania

Regions

Current	Vorpommern (Western or Hither Pomerania) Zachodniopomorskie Pomerelia Kashubia Pomorskie Pomerania euroregion

Former	Farther Pomerania Circipania Lauenburg and Bütow Land Lands of Schlawe and Stolp

Administration

Towns

Lists

Largest

>100,000	Tricity Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot Szczecin Koszalin

>50,000	Słupsk Stargard Szczeciński Stralsund Greifswald

Islands

Peninsulae

Rivers

Lakes

Lake Dąbie
Lake Gardno
Kummerower See
Lake Łebsko
Lake Miedwie

Bays, lagoons

National parks

History of Pomerania

Administrative

Western Pomerania Farther Pomerania (before 1945)	Billung March Northern March Principality of Rügen Duchy of Pomerania House of Pomerania List of Dukes Cammin Gützkow Schlawe-Stolp Lauenburg-Bütow Partitions Pomerania-Stolp Swedish Pomerania Brandenburgian Pomerania (Draheim) Province of Pomerania 1815–1945 Neumark Köslin Region Stettin Region Stralsund Region Posen-West Prussia Region List of placenames Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Zachodniopomorskie (after 1945)	Szczecin Voivodeship Koszalin Voivodeship Słupsk Voivodeship West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Pomerelia (Kashubia)	Medieval duchies (Samborides) State of the Teutonic Order Royal Prussia (Pomeranian Voivodeship 1466–1772) Free City of Danzig 1807–1814 West Prussia Pomeranian Voivodeship 1919–1939 (Polish Corridor) Free City of Danzig 1920–1939 Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia Pomeranian Voivodeship (Kashubian placenames)

Ecclesiastical

Roman Catholic

Historical	Conversion of Pomerania Diocese of Kolberg (Congress of Gniezno) Diocese of Cammin Diocese of Culm Diocese of Roskilde Diocese of Włocławek (Leslau) Prelature of Schneidemühl

Extant	Archdiocese of Berlin Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg Diocese of Pelplin

Protestant

Protestant Reformation
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
Evangelical State Church in Prussia (extinct)
Pomeranian Evangelical Church (extinct)

Demography

Archaeological cultures

Peoples

Major demographic events

Languages and dialects

West Germanic	Low German Low Prussian Pomeranian Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch East Pomeranian Standard German

West Slavic	Polabian Polish Pomeranian Kashubian Slovincian

Treaties

1200–1500	Kremmen (1236) Landin (1250) Kępno (1282) Soldin (1309) Templin (1317) Stralsund (1354) Stralsund (1370) Thorn (1411) Soldin (1466) Thorn (1466) Prenzlau (1448 / 1472 / 1479) Pyritz (1493)

1500–1700	Grimnitz (1529) Stettin (1570) Franzburg (1627) Stettin (1630) Westphalia (1648) Stettin (1653) Labiau (1656) Wehlau and Bromberg (1657) Oliva (1660) Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679) Lund (1679)

1700–present	Stockholm (1719 / 1720) Frederiksborg (1720) Kiel (1814) Vienna (1815) Versailles (1919) Potsdam (1945)

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