Fordon, is a district in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland with a number of residents around 75,000. However, at the beginning, the district had only 8,000 residents. Currently, Fordon is the biggest district of Bydgoszcz.
Fordon, is a district in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland with a number of residents around 75,000. However, at the beginning, the district had only 8,000 residents. Currently, Fordon is the biggest district of Bydgoszcz.
Fordon is subdivided into 16 house estates:
- Stary Fordon - Akademickie - Bajka - Bohaterów - Eskulapa - Kasztelanka - Łoskoń - Mariampol - Nad Wisłą - Niepodległości - Pałcz - Powiśle - Przylesie - Szybowników - Tatrzańskie - Zofin
A settlement in place of Fordon is mentioned in sources for the first time in 1112 as Wyszogród . In those times there was located an important defensive castle which was eventually fired and destroyed in 1330 by the Teutonic Knights.
At some point, Fordon belonged to the Grand Duchy of Posen and later under direct Prussian control. It was returned to Poland at the end of the First World War. In 1939 it was incorporated by the Nazi Germany. It is estimated that during World War II German soldiers killed from 1200 to 3000 people, mainly Poles and Jews, in the Death Valley of Fordon (Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)). 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 Nazi 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. [1] 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 ]
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"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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