Nidzica

Nidzica
Nidzica
Teutonic castle in Nidzica

Coat of arms
Nidzica is located in Poland
Nidzica
Coordinates: 53°21′30″N 20°25′30″E / 53.35833°N 20.425°E / 53.35833; 20.425
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Warmian-Masurian
County Nidzica County
Gmina Gmina Nidzica
Town rights 1381
Government
 - Mayor Dariusz Szypulski
Area
 - Total 6.86 km2 (2.6 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 - Total 14,761
 - Density 2,151.7/km2 (5,573/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 13-100
Area code(s) +48 89
Car plates NNI
Website http://www.nidzica.pl/

Nidzica [niˈd​͡ʑit​͡sa] (former German: About this sound Neidenburg ; formerly Nibork in Polish) is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, between Olsztyn and Mława. It has a population of 14,798 (2004). It is the capital of Nidzica County.

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History

The settlement was founded in 1355 by the Teutonic Knights and received town privileges in 1381 from Winrich von Kniprode. Although a member of the Prussian Confederation, it remained with the Teutonic Order after the Second Peace of Thorn (1466). It then became part of the Duchy of Prussia after the secularization of the Order's Prussian territories in 1525.

In 1656 Neidenburg was unsuccessfully besieged during the Northern Wars. The town became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. Half of Neidenburg's inhabitants died from plague from 1708-1711. It became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany.

At the beginning of World War I in 1914, Neidenburg was heavily damaged by invading Imperial Russian troops; the town was reconquered and rebuilt by the Germans after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.

As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, the East Prussian plebiscite was organized under the control of the League of Nations on 11 July 1920. The votes were 98.54% for remaining in Prussia and 1.46% for joining Poland.

During the Kristallnacht riots in November 1938, the synagogue was destroyed and two Jewish inhabitants, Julius Naftali and Minna Zack, were killed by Nazi SA members, while several others were injured. The surviving members of the Jewish congregation were deported and killed in the Holocaust during World War II.

Neidenburg was the seat of Landkreis Neidenburg in East Prussia until 1945; in that year the Red Army entered and occupied the town while pursuing the retreating Wehrmacht. While many if not most German civilians had fled the area, many of those who remained experienced atrocities at the hands of Soviet soldiers who found themselves on German soil for the first time. Lev Kopelev, a Soviet officer and later dissident, described how he was appalled by the acts of murder and looting against those who remained. In the post-war settlement, Neidenburg fell within the area of East Prussia granted to Poland, and the remaining German population was expelled. Rather than being renamed to the traditional Polish name Nibork, the town received a new name, Nidzica.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Nidzica is twinned with: Nidzica is a sister city with:

Notable residents

External links

References

  • Kopelev, Lev (1977). No Jail For Thought. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 39–41. ISBN 0-436-23640-0. 
This article incorporates information from the revision as of 6 September 2005 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

Coordinates: 53°22′N 20°26′E / 53.367°N 20.433°E / 53.367; 20.433



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