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Nowe Miasto Lubawskie View of the Market Square
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Nowe Miasto LubawskieCoordinates: 53°25′N 19°35′E / 53.417°N 19.583°E Country 
PolandVoivodeship Warmian-Masurian County Nowe Miasto Gmina Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (urban gmina) Established 1325 Town rights 1325 Government - Mayor Józef Blank Area - Total 11.61 km2 (4.5 sq mi) Elevation 82 m (269 ft) Population (2006) - Total 11,036 - Density 950.6/km2 (2,461.9/sq mi) Time zone CET (UTC+1) - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) Postal code 13-300 Area code(s) +48 56 Car plates NNM Website www.umnowemiasto.pl Nowe Miasto Lubawskie [ˈnɔvɛ ˈmjastɔ luˈbafskʲɛ] (German:
Neumark (help·info)) is a town in Poland, situated at river Drwęca. The population is 11,104 (2004). Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is the capital of Nowe Miasto County (Polish: powiat nowomiejski) and was assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999.Contents
History
The town of Neumark was granted Kulm law city rights in 1325 by the Teutonic Order. In 1454, the city joined the Prussian Confederation, an association of cities and gentry that opposed the policy of the Order.
Neumark joined the Kingdom of Poland as part of western Prussia in 1466 (Second Peace of Thorn), where it remained until 1772 (Partitions of Poland).
At the end of the 19th century, the town was capital of Landkreis Löbau in the Prussian district of Marienwerder, it had a Lutheran and a Catholic church, a Progymnasium, a court, a steam mill with grain trading, and (as of 1885) 2678 inhabitants. The monastery Maria-Lonk was nearby.
The town was again in Poland after the (Versailles Treaty) in January 1920 . During the Second Polish Republic Nowe Miasto Lubawskie was the capital of Nowe Miasto County (Polish: powiat nowomiejski) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.
On 21 January 1945 town was captured by the Red Army. After the war the town was returned to Poland.
Famous people
- Zyta Gilowska, Polish economist and politician
- Leonard Kniffel, American writer, published A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American's Journey Home, a travel memoir about contemporary life in the town of his ancestors.
- Nikolaus von Vormann, Wehrmacht general.
- Janina Wasilewska, subject, along with her husband, Tony Wasilewski, of the documentary film Tony and Janina's American Wedding, directed by Ruth Leitman.
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is twinned with: Hude, Šalčininkai
External links
- (Polish) Tygodnik Internetowy - weekly alternative newspaper online features top news stories, local information for Nowe Miasto area.
- (Polish) Official town website
- Old photo of towns square and church
- Images of Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Coordinates: 53°25′N 19°36′E / 53.417°N 19.6°E
Seat Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (urban gmina)
Rural gminas Categories:- Cities and towns in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
- Nowe Miasto County
- Warmian-Masurian geography stubs
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