Szubin

Infobox Settlement
name = Szubin

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image_shield = POL Szubin COA.svg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Kuyavian-Pomeranian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Nakło
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Szubin
area_total_km2 = 7.65
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 9326
population_density_km2 = auto
latd = 53 | latm = 1 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 17 | longm = 45 | longs = | longEW = E
elevation_m =
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 89-200
website = http://www.szubin.pl

Szubin [IPA-pl|'|sz|u|b|i|n] ( _de. Schubin) is a town in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, located southwest of Bydgoszcz, at coord|53|01|N|17|45|E|display=inline,title. 12 December 2004 it had a population of 9354.

History

The first record of a settlement next to the castle of the Pałuk family was noted in 1365. It became a town in 1434. In 1773 it was incorporated into Prussia during the second of the Partitions of Poland. Local people took part in the various insurrections which unsuccessfully tried to regain freedom in the 19th century. Freedom was finally achieved after vicious fighting against the Germans in 1919. In September 1939 it was quickly occupied by German troops and was incorporated into the Nazi Reich as part of Wartegau. The boys' school in the town was surrounded by barbed wire fences and additional concrete huts were added, so that it could become a prisoner of war camp for captured officers, French, Polish and Soviet as Oflag XXI-B. In 1943 the camp was changed to a camp for U.S. Army officers as Oflag 64.

The town returned to Poland after being freed by Soviet troops in January 1945.

ource

* [http://www.szubin.net.pl/ town web page] - in Polish.

See also

* Oflag 64
* Kreis Schubin