Nowa Sol

Nowa Sol is a city at the Oder River in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the capital of Nowa Sol County and had a population of 40,351 as of 2006. The first agreement in the place of modern Nowa Sol dates to the 14^th century, while the territory turned into beneath Bohemian sovereignty. In order to break Silesia's dependency on salt from Poland, Emperor Ferdinand I based the demesne land Zum Neuen Saltze in 1563. The sea salt, firstly from La Rochelle and the Iberian coast, become transported from Hamburg and Stettin alongside the navigable Oder.

A flood in 1573 led to the relocation of the salt refinery to the close by village of Modritz the workplace of the administrator is now the metropolis corridor. The settlement becomes documented as New Salzburg in 1585 and later as Neusalz. A trading harbor was constructed on the Oder in 1592. The Protestant Church of St. Michael, constructed from 1591 to 97, turned into transformed to Roman Catholicism in 1654. The entrance of Dutch and English traders within the Baltic Sea at the quit of the 16^th century caused difficulties within the supply of unrefined salt.