Fordon, Bydgoszcz

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Fordon
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Panorama of Fordon district
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Coat of arms
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Location of Fordon within Bydgoszcz
Coordinates: 53°08′51″N18°10′04″E / 53.14750°N 18.16778°E / 53.14750; 18.16778
CountryFlag of Poland.svg  Poland
Voivodeship Kuyavian-Pomeranian
County/City Bydgoszcz
Town rights1382
Within city limits1973/1977
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Fordon, is a district in Bydgoszcz, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city, with some 75,000 inhabitants. Currently, Fordon is the biggest district of Bydgoszcz.

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House estates

Fordon is subdivided into 16 house estates:

History

A settlement in place of Fordon is mentioned in sources for the first time in 1112 as Wyszogród  [ pl ]. In those times there was located an important defensive castle which was eventually fired and destroyed in 1330 by the Teutonic Knights. Fordon was a royal town of the Kingdom of Poland, administratively located in the Bydgoszcz County in the Inowrocław Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. [1]

Fordon in the interwar period Stary Fordon, miedzywojnie.jpg
Fordon in the interwar period

In the Partitions of Poland it was annexed by Prussia. In 1807, Fordon was regained by Poles and included in the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the dissolution of the duchy in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia, and included within the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Posen. It was returned to Poland at the end of the First World War.

Following the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany. It is estimated that during the war, German soldiers killed from 1,200 to 3,000 people, mainly Poles and Jews, in a place now known as the Valley of Death. The exact number stays unknown as historians have not found appropriate documents that would state the final number of deaths. In 1945 Fordon was liberated from German occupation.

In 1950 Fordon was still a separate town from Bydgoszcz. At that time it was described as "seven miles east" of the latter city. It had a population of 3,514 people and manufactured such things as cement and paper. [2] In 1973 Fordon became a part of the city of Bydgoszcz.

The prison in Fordon was established in 1780 and changed into a men's/women's prison several times. From 1939-1956 among others, there were kept and killed 180 Ukrainian women in the prison. A memorial plaque was placed on the prison on May 10, 1992.[ citation needed ]

Buildings and places

Memorials at the Valley of Death Zbocze Fordonskie - widok pomnikow nad Fordonska Dolina Smierci. - panoramio (1).jpg
Memorials at the Valley of Death
Fordon Bridge Most Fordonski 2023.jpg
Fordon Bridge
Baroque Saint Nicholas church Kosciol sw. Mikolaja, Fordon.jpg
Baroque Saint Nicholas church

Education

Universities

High Schools

Primary Schools

References

  1. ↑ Atlas historyczny Polski. Kujawy i ziemia dobrzyńska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2021. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer, p. 626

Sources

"Kujawsko-pomorskie dla każdego. Przewodnik turystyczny po najciekawszych miejscach województwa" Włodzimierz Bykowski, Wieńczysław Bykowski, wyd. Apeiron ISBN   83-919091-1-5 & Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dolnej Wisły ISBN   83-919299-5-7, Bydgoszcz 2005 My Odyssey "Моя Одисея" Irena Tymoszko-Kaminska, Chicago 2005 page 286, ISBN   83-86112-21-2, Oficyna Wydawnicza UKAR 02-588 Warszawa 48, skr.poczt.156

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