Skwierzyna

Skwierzyna is a city of 10,339 inhabitants in Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland, the executive seat of the Gmina Skwierzyna. It is placed at the confluence of the Obra and Warta rivers, approximately 18 km north of Miedzyrzecz and 23 km south east of the nearby capital Gorzow Wielkopolski. The metropolis is situated in a specially inexperienced a part of Poland. Extensive forests and numerous lakes may be discovered within the vicinity. Skwierzyna already held city privileges upon the demise of the Piast duke Przemysl II of Greater Poland in 1296, renewed by means of the Polish king Wladyslaw II Jagiello in 1406.

The colonization of the vicinity changed into in large part implemented via the Cistercian priests of nearby Paradyz Abbey, a filial monastery of Lehnin Abbey inside the Margraviate of Brandenburg. With its predominantly German citizens, the town for centuries belonged to the Polish Poznan Voivodeship, situated near the western border of the Lands of the Polish Crown with the Brandenburgian Neumark area. In the route of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Skwierzyna changed into annexed together with the entire location of Greater Poland with the aid of the Kingdom of Prussia.