Country Poland Gmina Gmina Mogilno Postal code 88-300 Area 8.32 km² | County Mogilno County Time zone CET (UTC+1) Car plates CMG Local time Wednesday 1:54 PM | |
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Weather 11°C, Wind NW at 29 km/h, 39% Humidity Voivodeship Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship | ||
Mogilno [mɔˈɡʲilnɔ] is a town in central Poland, situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship (1975–1998).
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Map of Mogilno, Poland
History
Mogilno belongs to one of the oldest settlements along the border of the Greater Poland and Kuyavia historical regions. Since the turn of the 8th and 9th century until the 10th century an early-mediaeval settlement existed there, at the long narrow headland surrounded by waters of Mogilno Lake from the west and south and marshes from the east. In 1065, a Benedictine abbey was founded there by Bolesław the Generous. North of the abbey a town later developed, which in 1398 was granted a city charter, and which was the abbey's property until 1773. After the first Partition of Poland in 1772 the city became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, and in 1920 it returned to Poland. Since 1898 until his death in 1910 a parish priest in Mogilno's other church St. Jacob (Św. Jakuba) was Piotr Wawrzyniak.
Massacre during Second World War
On 18 September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland, German forces incited by members of Mogilno German minority killed 40 Poles, one of whom was of Jewish descent. The victims were picked out by local Germans for execution. The oldest victim was 75, the youngest 17.