Lubsko

Infobox Settlement
name = Lubsko

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imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Lubsko castle

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image_shield = POL Lubsko COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lubusz
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Żary
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Lubsko
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Bogdan Adam Bakalarz
established_title = Established
established_date = before 1258
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1283
elevation_min_m = 65
elevation_max_m = 122
area_total_km2 = 12.56
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 14767
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51
latm = 47
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 14
longm = 58
longs =
longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 68-300
area_code = +48 68
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = FZA
website = http://www.lubsko.pl Lubsko [IPA-pl|'|l|u|p|s|k|o] ( _de. Sommerfeld) is a town in Żary County in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland. It has a population of 15,370 as of February 1 2005.

The town was first documented in 1258 and received town privileges in 1283. Then known as "Sommerfeld", German for "summer field", it came into the possession of Brandenburg in 1482 and was part of the Neumark. In 1846 Sommerfeld was on the railway line connecting Berlin with Breslau (Wrocław).

Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein was born in Dolzig Palace (Dłużek, part of modern Lubsko) in 1858. Gerhard Domagk attended school in Sommerfeld until he was 14; the scientist would later win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939.

At the Potsdam Conference in 1945 after the end of World War II, the town became part of Poland and officially received the Polish name "Lubsko".

Local government contacts

ul. pl. Wolności 1,
68-300, Lubsko
tel. [phone]
fax. [phone]
E-Mail: || [mailto:[e-mail] [e-mail]]

External links

* [http://www.um.lubsko.pl/index.php?id=0&lng=eng Municipal website]