Gorzow Wielkopolski

Gorzow Wielkopolski is a city in western Poland, at the Warta River. It is the second biggest town in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 124,116 population June 2015 and one in every of its capitals with a seat of a Voivodeship governor the alternative is Zielona Gora. Previously it turned into the capital of the Gorzow Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. Gorzow is known for its successful sportsmen, including Olympic and global champions and countrywide representatives. The town is likewise referred to as the place of origin of former Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Until the mid 13^th century, the land in which the river Klodawka meets the Warta become the place of a shielding citadel established with the aid of the Polish Piast dynasty.

In 1249 the Silesian Duke Boleslaw II Rogatka had offered Lubusz Land inside the west to the Ascanian Margraves of Brandenburg and the town of Landisberch Nova became founded on the site in 1257. The town changed into at that time a Japanese outpost of the newly installed Neumark place of Brandenburg, close to the Greater Polish castle of Santok. In 1325 Polish, in 1432 Hussite troops beleaguered the metropolis. In the 16^th century the city have become Lutheran, with St. Mary's Cathedral converting its allegiance in 1537.