Wschowa

Wschowa is a town inside the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland with 14,607 inhabitants 2004. It is the capital of Wschowa County and a extensive vacationer website online containing many vital ancient monuments. Wschowa changed into in the beginning a border castle in a location disputed with the aid of the Polish dukes of Silesia and Greater Poland. After German colonists had set up a settlement nearby, it obtained Magdeburg rights round 1250.

The Old Polish name Veschow turned into first stated in 1248, while the Middle High German name Frowenstat Civitas first seemed in 1290. After the Silesian Piast dukes had step by step familiar Bohemian suzerainty, King Casimir 3rd the Great in 1343 subsequently conquered it for Poland. The ziemia Wschowa then changed into incorporated into the Greater Polish Poznan Voivodeship of the Polish Crown. Wschowa and its Latin school changed into one of the centers of the Protestant Reformation in Poland and a retreat for non secular refugees within the days of the Counter-Reformation in adjoining Habsburg Silesia.