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{{short description|Capital city of West Pomerania, Poland}} | |||
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| name = Szczecin | |||
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| other_name = {{lang|de|Stettin}} | |||
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| motto = "{{lang|pl|Szczecin jest otwarty}}" <br />("Szczecin is open") | |||
population=413 600| | |||
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latitude=14°34'E| | |||
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longitude=53°26'N| | |||
| image1 = Wały Chrobrego in Szczecin, winter 2021.jpg | |||
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'''Szczecin''' (pronounce: ] </nowiki>]], Latin '''Stetinum''', German ''Stettin'') is the 7th largest city in ] and the second largest Polish seaport on the ]. It is also the capital of the ]. There are 419,000 inhabitants in Szczecin (as of 2004). | |||
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| subdivision_type = ] | |||
| subdivision_name = {{POL}} | |||
| subdivision_type1 = ] | |||
| subdivision_name1 = ] | |||
| subdivision_type2 = ] | |||
| subdivision_name2 = City county | |||
| leader_party = ] | |||
| leader_title = City mayor | |||
| leader_name = ] | |||
| established_title = Established | |||
| established_date = 8th century | |||
| established_title3 = City rights | |||
| established_date3 = 1243 | |||
| area_total_km2 = 301 | |||
| area_metro_km2 = 2795 | |||
| population_as_of = 31 December 2021 | |||
| population_total = 395,513 {{decrease}} (])<ref name="population">{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/podgrup/tablica|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=10 February 2024|publisher=Statistics Poland}} Data for territorial unit 3262000.</ref> | |||
| population_density_km2 = 1340 | |||
| population_metro = 777000 | |||
| population_density_metro_km2 = 278 | |||
| population_demonym = szczecinianin (male) <br/> szczecinianka (female) (]) | |||
| timezone = ] | |||
| utc_offset = +1 | |||
| timezone_DST = ] | |||
| utc_offset_DST = +2 | |||
| coordinates = {{coord|53|25|57|N|14|32|53|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}} | |||
| postal_code_type = Postal code | |||
| postal_code = PL-70-017<br />to 71–871 | |||
| area_code = +48 91 | |||
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| blank_info = ZS | |||
| blank1_name = ] | |||
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| blank_name_sec2 = Primary airport | |||
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| website = {{URL|https://www.szczecin.pl}} | |||
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'''Szczecin''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|ʃ|tʃ|ɛ|tʃ|ɪ|n}} {{respell|SHCHETCH|in}},<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Szczecin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116223906/https://www.lexico.com/definition/szczecin |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-01-16 |title=Szczecin |dictionary=] UK English Dictionary |publisher=]}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|US|-|tʃ|iː|n}} {{respell|-|een}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Szczecin|access-date=18 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/szczecin|title=Szczecin|work=]|publisher=]|access-date=18 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Szczecin|access-date=18 August 2019}}</ref> {{IPA-pl|ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin|lang|Pl-Szczecin-2.ogg}}; {{langx|de|Stettin}} {{IPA|de|ʃtɛˈtiːn||De-Stettin.ogg}}; {{langx|sv|Stettin}} {{IPA|sv|stɛˈtiːn|}}; {{langx|la|Sedinum}} or {{lang|la|Stetinum}})<ref>Johann Georg Theodor Grässe: '''', Meere, Seen, Berge und Flüsse in allen Theilen der Erde nebst einem deutsch-lateinischen Register derselben. T. Ein Supplement zu jedem lateinischen und geographischen Wörterbuche. Dresden: G. Schönfeld’s Buchhandlung (C. A.Werner), 1861, p. 179, 186, 278. .</ref> is the ] and largest city of the ] in northwestern ]. Located near the ] and the ], it is a major ] and Poland's seventh-largest city. {{As of|2022|12|31|post=,}} the population was 391,566.<ref name="population" /> | |||
Szczecin is located on the ] River, south of the ] and the ]. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of ], on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. It is also surrounded by dense forests, shrubland and ]s, chiefly the ] shared with Germany (Ueckermünde) and the ]. Szczecin is adjacent to the ] and is the urban centre of the ], an extended metropolitan area that includes communities in the ] of ] and ]. | |||
The city's recorded history dates back over 1,300 years, when diverse tribes and peoples such as the ] and ] erected strongholds in the vicinity. It subsequently served as the seat of the ] and the ]. In the course of the millennium, Szczecin under different names was part of ], ], ], the ], ], Germany and modern-day Poland. The city's architecture and cultural heritage reflects these periods, with excellent examples of ], ], ], ] and contemporary styles. The planned urban landscape was based on the ], with avenues, roundabouts and extensive parkland. The city's chief landmarks include the ], the ], the ] and the ]. | |||
Szczecin is the administrative and industrial centre of West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the site of the ], ], ], ], ], and the see of the ]. From 1999 onwards, Szczecin has served as the site of the ] of ]'s ]. The city was a candidate for the ] in 2016.<ref name="szczecin2016.pl">{{cite web|url=http://www.szczecin2016.pl/esk2016/chapter_89000.asp|title=Strona domeny www.szczecin2016.pl|work=szczecin2016.pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817102057/http://www.szczecin2016.pl/esk2016/chapter_89000.asp|archive-date=17 August 2010}}</ref> | |||
Szczecin is situated in the north-west corner of Poland, on both banks of the ], close to ] and the ] border. The city is situated to the south of and around the greater bay into which the Oder river flows. The Western side is commonly called the Left Bank ''(Lewobrzeże),'' and the Eastern side the Right Bank ''(Prawobrzeże).'' Between them is an ] with many islands (mainly industrial areas with shipyards and sea-port infrastructure). | |||
== City name == | |||
== Name and etymology == | |||
Early medieval sources show: ''Stetin'' 1133, ''Stetyn'' 1188, ''Priznoborus vir nobilis in Stetin, Symon nobilis Stettinensis'' 1234, ''in vico Stetin'' 1240, ''Barnim Dei gratia dux Pomeranorum... civitati nostri Stetin'' 1243, ''Stityn'' 1251, ''Sigillum Burgoncium de Stitin'' municipal seal of the 13th century, which is the same to the modern Polish spelling of Szczecin. The name is almost certainly of the same origin as others Polish names such as ], ] and ]. In Latin, the city was known as ''Stetinum''. | |||
{{lang|pl|Szczecin}} and {{lang|de|Stettin}} are the Polish and German equivalents of the same name, which is of ] origin, though the exact etymology is the subject of ongoing research.<ref name="Bialecki">{{cite book|first=Tadeusz|last=Białecki|title=Historia Szczecina|publisher=] |year=1992 |location=Wrocław |pages=9, 20–55, 92–95, 258–260, 300–306}}</ref>{{efn |Spelling variants in medieval sources include: | |||
] | |||
* ''Stetin'',<ref name=Labuda14/> recorded e.g. in 1133,<ref name=Labuda14>Gerard Labuda, Władysław Filipowiak, Helena Chłopocka, Maciej Czarnecki, Tadeusz Białecki, Zygmunt Silski, ''Dzieje Szczecina 1–4'', Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk., 1994, p.{{nbsp}}14, {{ISBN|83-01-04342-3}}</ref> 1159,<ref name=Labuda14/> 1177<ref name=Labuda14/> | |||
There are several possible etymologies of the city name: | |||
* ''Stetyn'',<ref name=Labuda14/> recorded, e.g., in 1188,<ref name=Labuda14/> 1243<ref name=Labuda14/> | |||
# Szczecin comes from the word ''szczyt'' which means ''peak, hill top'' in modern Polish, but also a long shield in Old Polish. So Szczecin means a town located on a hill top, or a town fortified as a stronghold. | |||
* ''Stetim'', 1237<ref name=Lizak/> | |||
# Szczecin comes from a personal name Szczuka and means Szczuka's town | |||
* ''Szcecin'', 1273.<ref name=Lizak>Wojciech Lizak, "Jak wywodzono nazwę Szczecina?", , last accessed 4/2/2011</ref> | |||
# Szczecin comes from a personal name Szczeta/Szczota and means Szczota's town | |||
* ''Stetina'',<ref name=Labuda14/> by Herbord<ref name=Labuda14/> | |||
# Szczecin comes from a word ''szczecina'' which means ''bristle''. So Szczecin is a town with many swines, or a town fortified like bristle. If this is true Szczecin could be identified with Burstaborg mentioned in the Scandinavian chronicles. | |||
* ''Sthetynensibus'' or ''Sthetyn'', 1287, in Anglicised medieval Latin.<ref name=Lizak/> (The ending ''–ens–ibus'' means 'to the people of' in Latin.) | |||
* ''Stetinum'' and ''Sedinum'', still used in contemporary ] language references | |||
* ''Stitin'', recorded, e.g., in 1251,<ref name=Labuda14/> in the ''Annales Ryensis'',<ref name=Labuda14/> in 1642<ref>Merians anmüthige Städte-Chronik, das ist historische und wahrhaffte Beschreibung und zugleich Künstliche Abcontrafeyung zwantzig vornehmbster und bekantester in unserm geliebten Vatterland gelegenen Stätte, 1642</ref> | |||
* ''Stitinum'', by ]<ref name=Labuda14/> | |||
* ''Stittinum'' | |||
* ''Stytin'',<ref name=Labuda14/> in the ''Annales Colbacensis''.<ref name=Labuda14/>}} | |||
In her ''Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names of Poland'', Maria Malec lists 11 theories regarding the origin of the name, including derivations from either: an Old Slavic word for 'hill peak' ({{langx|pl|szczyt|links=no}}), the plant ] ({{langx|pl|szczeć|links=no}}), or the ] {{lang|pl|Szczota}}.<ref>Słownik etymologiczny nazw geograficznych Polski Profesor Maria Malec PWN 2003</ref> | |||
Other medieval names for the town are ''Burstaborg'' (in the ])<ref name=Labuda14/><ref name=Rospond162>Stanisław Rospond, Slawische Namenkunde Ausg. 1,{{nbsp}}Nr.{{nbsp}}3, C.{{nbsp}}Winter, 1989, p.{{nbsp}}162</ref> and ''Burstenburgh'' (in the Annals of Waldemar).<ref name =Labuda14/><ref name=Rospond162/> These names, which literally mean 'brush burgh', are likely derived from the translation of the city's Slavic name (assuming derivation No. 2 for that).<ref name=Rospond162/> | |||
Because in ] duke ] has founded a new city called ''New Szczecin'' and today ] modelled after the Szczecin municipality, the original Szczecin was sometimes called the ''Old Szczecin'' (]: ''Stetinum Antiqua'', ]: ''Stary Szczecin'', ]: ''Alten Stettin.'') | |||
In the 16th century Polish literature used two alternative spellings: ''Szczecin'' (seems to be the exact pronunciation of the city name used by its Slavonic inhabitants, previously spelled in Latin as ''Stetin'' since the 12th century) and ''Sztetyn'' (seems to be a copy of the German pronunciation). The first form of '''Szczecin''' prevailed in the following years and was officially confirmed in the 19th century, long before the city was again in Polish hands. | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
{{Main|History of Szczecin}} | |||
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=== Middle Ages === | |||
''Full article: ]'' | |||
] commemorating the ] (a ] people), with an image of the Pomeranian ]]] | |||
The recorded ] began in the eighth century, when ]<ref>"Vikingar", Natur och Kultur 1995, {{ISBN|91-27-91001-6}} (CD)</ref> and ] settled in ]. The West Slavs, or ], erected a new ] on the site of the ].<ref name=Piskorski52/> | |||
=== Historical summary === | |||
Since the 9th century, the stronghold was fortified and expanded toward the ].<ref name=Piskorski52>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}52, {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> ] took control of ] and the region became part of Poland in the 10th century.<ref>The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 11, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1998, p.{{nbsp}}473 "In the 8th and 9th centuries Szczecin was a Slavic fishing and commercial settlement, later named Western Pomerania (Pomorze Zachodnie). During the 10th century, it was annexed to Poland by ]</ref><ref>The Origins of Polish state. Mieszko I and Bolesław Chrobry. Professor Henry Lang, Polish Academic Information Center, University at Buffalo. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206100818/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/orig/mieszko.html |date=6 February 2012 }}</ref> However, already ] (1025 ~ 1034) effectively lost control over the area and had to accept German suzerainty over the area of the Oder lagoon.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Higounet|title=Die deutsche Ostsiedlung im Mittelalter|page=141|language=de}}</ref> Subsequent Polish rulers, the Holy Roman Empire, and the ] all aimed to control the territory.<ref name="Bialecki"/> | |||
After the decline of the neighbouring regional centre ] in the 12th century, the city became one of the more important and powerful seaports of the Baltic Sea.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Addyman et al., 1979 |date=1981 |title=Waterfront Archaeology in Britain and Northern Europe: A review of current research in waterfront archaeology in six European countries, based on the papers presented to the First International Conference on Waterfront Archaeology in North European Towns held at the Museum of London on 20-22 April 1979 |url=https://woolmerforest.org.uk/E-Library/W/WATERFRONT%20ARCHAEOLOGY%20IN%20BRITAIN%20AND%20NORTHERNN%20EUROPE.pdf |journal=Council for British Archaeology Research Reports |volume=41 |pages=69 |via=The Council for British Archaeology}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 24, 2023 |title=Port of Szczecin |url=http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/review/POL_Port_of_Szczecin_1178.php |access-date=September 24, 2023 |website=World Port Source |archive-date=26 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126002019/http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/review/POL_Port_of_Szczecin_1178.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
A stronghold of the ] was here in the early ] period. Another stronghold of the ]s was built in the 8th century at the ford of the ]. The city was already a flourishing trading centre with 10,000 inhabitants when it was subjugated and baptized by ]. A medieval municipality was granted autonomy in ]. Till the ] Szczecin was the capital of the ] of ] ruled by the ] ] dynasty, of ] origins. After their extinction Szczecin, along with the rest of western Pomerania, was granted to ] at the ]. After the ], in ], the Swedes were forced to cede the city to the Brandenburg elector ], by now King of ]. Szczecin remained in Prussia (and thus, after ] in ]) until ], when the Red Army captured the city and returned it to ]. The city's German inhabitants either escaped or were transferred to ], and the city was colonized with Poles, mainly from Poznań area. The city was rebuilt and made a major industrial centre, the capital of ]. It witnessed anti-communist revols in ] and ] adding its share to the birth of ] movement. Since ] Szczecin has been the capital of ]. | |||
In a campaign in the winter of 1121–1122,<ref name=Piskorski36>Jan M. Piskorski, ''Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten'', 1999, pg. 36; {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}}, {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> ], the Duke of ], gained control of the region, including the city of Szczecin and its stronghold.<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name=Piskorski3136>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, pp. 31,36,43 {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}: pg. 31 (yrs 967-after 1000 AD): " gelang es den polnischen Herrschern sicherlich nicht, Wollin und die Odermündung zu unterwerfen." pg. 36: "Von 1119 bis 1122 eroberte er schließlich das pommersche Odergebiet mit Stettin, " pg. 43: " während Rügen 1168 erobert und in den dänischen Staat einverleibt wurde."</ref><ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, pp. 100–101, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref><ref>Norbert Buske, Pommern, Helms Schwerin 1997, pp. 11ff; {{ISBN|3-931185-07-9}}</ref><ref>], Die Geschichte Pommerns, Hinstorff Rostock, 2008, pp.{{nbsp}}15ff; {{ISBN|978-3-356-01044-2}}: pp. 14–15: "Die westslawischen Stämme der Obroditen, Lutizen und Pomoranen konnten sich lange der Eroberung widersetzen. Die militärisch überlegenen Mächte im Norden und Osten, im Süden und im Westen übten jedoch einen permanenten Druck auf den südlichen Ostseeraum aus. Dieser ging bis 1135 hauptsächlich von Polen aus. Der polnische Herzog Boleslaw III Krzywousty (Schiefmund) unterwarf in mehreren Feldzügen bis 1121 pomoranisches Stammland mit den Hauptburgen Cammin und Stettin und drang weiter gen Westen vor", pg. 17: Das Interesse Waldemars richtete sich insbesondere auf das Siedlungsgebiet der Ranen, die nördlich des Ryck und auf Rügen siedelten und die sich bislang gegen Eroberer und Christianisierungsversuche gewehrt hatten. und nahmen 1168 an König ]. Kriegszug gegen die Ranen teil. Arkona wurde erobert und zerstört. Die unterlegenen Ranen versprachen, das Christentum anzunehmen, die Oberhoheit des Dänenkönigs anzuerkennen und Tribut zu leisten."</ref><ref name="Barber">Malcolm Barber, "The two cities: medieval Europe, 1050–1320", Routledge, 2004, pg. 330 </ref><ref>An historical geography of Europe, 450 B.C.{{nsndns}}A.D. 1330, Norman John Greville Pounds, Cambridge University Press 1973, pg. 241, "By 1121 Polish armies had penetrated its forests, captured its chief city of Szczecin."</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=December 2023}} The Polish ruler initiated Christianization, entrusting this task to ],<ref>{{cite book|last=Medley|first=D. J.|year=2004|title=The church and the empire|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|page=152}}</ref> and the inhabitants were Christianised<ref name="Bialecki"/> by two missions of Otto in 1124 and 1128.<ref>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, pp. 36ff; {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}}, {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> At this time, the first Christian church of Saints Peter and Paul was erected. The Poles' minted coins were commonly used in trade in this period.<ref name="Bialecki"/> The population of the city at that time is estimated to be at around 5,000–9,000 people.<ref>''Archeologia Polska'', Volume 38, Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej (Polska Akademia Nauk, pg. 309, Zakład im. Ossolińskich, 1993.</ref> | |||
=== Dukes of Szczecin === | |||
], first built in the 14th century]] | |||
Polish rule ended with Boleslaw's death in 1138.<ref>Kyra Inachim, ''Die Geschichte Pommerns'', Hinstorff Rostock, 2008, pg. 17; {{ISBN|978-3-356-01044-2}}: "Mit dem Tod Kaiser Lothars 1137 endete der sächsische Druck auf Wartislaw I., und mit dem Ableben Boleslaw III. auch die polnische Oberhoheit."</ref> During the ] in 1147, a contingent led by the German margrave ], an enemy of Slavic presence in the region,<ref name="Bialecki"/> papal legate, bishop ] and ] besieged the town.<ref name=Schimmelpfennig16>Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, ''Könige und Fürsten, Kaiser und Papst nach dem Wormser Konkordat'', Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1996, pg. 16; {{ISBN|3-486-55034-9}}</ref><ref name=Fuhrmann147>Horst Fuhrmann, Deutsche Geschichte im hohen Mittelalter: Von der Mitte des 11. Bis zum Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts, 4th edition, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, pg. 147; {{ISBN|3-525-33589-X}}</ref><ref>Peter N. Stearns, ], ], ], 2001; pg. 206 @ {{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>Davies, Norman (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford: ]; {{ISBN|0-06-097468-0}}, pg. 362</ref> There, a Polish contingent supplied by ]<ref name=Piskorski43>Jan M. Piskorski, ''Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten'', 1999, pg. 43; {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}: Greater Polish continguents of Mieszko the Elder</ref><ref name=Heitz163>{{cite book|title=Geschichte in Daten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|first1=Gerhard|last1=Heitz|first2=Henning|last2=Rischer|publisher=Koehler&Amelang|location=Münster-Berlin|year=1995|isbn=3-7338-0195-4|language=de|page=163}}</ref> joined the crusaders.<ref name=Schimmelpfennig16/><ref name=Fuhrmann147/> However, the citizens had placed crosses around the fortifications,<ref>Jean Richard, Jean Birrell, "The Crusades, c.{{nbsp}}1071{{nsndns}}c.{{nbsp}}1291", ], 1999, p.{{nbsp}}158, </ref> indicating they already had been Christianised.<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref>Jonathan Riley-Smith, "The Crusades: A History", Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p.{{nbsp}}130, </ref> Duke ] of ], negotiated the disbanding of the crusading forces.<ref name=Schimmelpfennig16/><ref name=Fuhrmann147/><ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}30, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> | |||
After the ] in 1164, Szczecin duke ] became a vassal of the Duchy of Saxony's ].<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}34">Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}34, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> In 1173, Szczecin ] ], could not resist a Danish attack and became vassal of ].<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}34"/> In 1181, Bogusław became a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire.<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}35">Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}35, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> In 1185, Bogusław again became a Danish vassal.<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}35"/> Despite falling under foreign suzerainty, local dukes maintained close ties with the fragmented Polish realm, and future Polish monarch ] stayed at the local court of Duke Bogusław I in 1186, on behalf of his father, Duke of ] ], who also periodically was the ].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Krasuski|first=Marcin|year=2018|title=Walka o władzę w Wielkopolsce w I połowie XIII wieku|magazine=Officina Historiae|language=pl|issue=1|page=64|issn=2545-0905}}</ref> Following a conflict between his heirs and ], the settlement was destroyed in 1189,<ref name=riis48>{{cite book|title=Studien Zur Geschichte Des Ostseeraumes IV. Das Mittelalterliche Dänische Ostseeimperium|first=Thomas|last=Riis|publisher=Ludwig|year=2003|isbn=87-7838-615-2|page=48}}</ref> but the fortress was reconstructed and manned with a Danish force in 1190.<ref>Université de Caen. Centre de recherches archéologiques médiévales, ''Château-Gaillard: études de castellologie médiévale, XVIII : actes du colloque international tenu à Gilleleje, Danemark, 24–30 août 1996'', CRAHM, 1998, p.{{nbsp}}218, {{ISBN|978-2-902685-05-9}}</ref> While the empire restored its superiority over the Duchy of Pomerania in the ] in 1227,<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}35"/> Szczecin was one of two bridgeheads remaining under Danish control (until 1235; ] until 1241/43 or 1250).<ref name=riis48/> | |||
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In the second half of the 12th century, a group of German tradesmen ("multus populus Teutonicorum"<ref name=Heitz168>{{cite book|title=Geschichte in Daten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|first1=Gerhard|last1=Heitz|first2=Henning|last2=Rischer|publisher=Koehler&Amelang|location=Münster-Berlin|year=1995|isbn=3-7338-0195-4|language=de|page=168}}</ref> from various parts of the Holy Roman Empire) settled in the city around St.{{nbsp}}Jacob's Church, which was donated in 1180<ref name=Heitz168/> by Beringer, a trader from ], and consecrated in 1187.<ref name=Heitz168/><ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p. 43, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> Hohenkrug (now in ]) was the first village in the Duchy of Pomerania that was clearly recorded as German (''villa teutonicorum'') in 1173.<ref>Jan Maria Piskorski, Slawen und Deutsche in Pommern im Mittelalter, in Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert, Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich: der Osten und der Westen des mittelalterlichen Lateineuropa, Akademie Verlag, 2007, p.{{nbsp}}85, {{ISBN|3-05-004155-2}}</ref> ] accelerated in Pomerania during the 13th century.<ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}43ff, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> Duke ] of Pomerania granted Szczecin a ] charter in 1237, separating the German settlement from the Slavic community settled around the ] Church in the neighbourhood of Kessin ({{langx|pl|Chyzin}}). In the charter, the Slavs were put under Germanic jurisdiction.<ref>Jan Maria Piskorski, Slawen und Deutsche in Pommern im Mittelalter, in Klaus Herbers, Nikolas Jaspert, Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich: der Osten und der Westen des mittelalterlichen Lateineuropa, Akademie Verlag, 2007, p.{{nbsp}}86, {{ISBN|3-05-004155-2}}</ref> | |||
===Famous people born or otherwise connected with Szczecin=== | |||
], the seat of the dukes of the ], which was founded by Duke ]]] | |||
* ] (] - ]), author | |||
* ] (] - ]), actor | |||
* ] (] - ]), empress of ] | |||
* ] (] - ]), architect | |||
* ] (] - ]), Mayor of Magdeburg | |||
* ] (] - ]), author | |||
* ] (born ]), Prime Minister of ] and Federal Minister in the government of ] since 2002 | |||
* ] (born ]), expert in international law, professor at the ] | |||
* ] (] - ]), Prussian Field Marshal | |||
* ] - popular TV journalist, former manager of the Szczecin regional TV center, and a ]'s Member of European Parliament. | |||
When Barnim granted Szczecin ] in 1243, part of the Slavic settlement was reconstructed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Geschichte Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns|publisher=Beck|first=Michael|last=North|year=2008|isbn=978-3-406-57767-3|language=de|page=21}}</ref> The duke had to promise to level the burgh in 1249.<ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}83, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> Most Slavic inhabitants were resettled to two new suburbs north and south of the town.<ref>Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}84, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> | |||
=== Historical population === | |||
In 1249, Barnim I also granted equivalent Magdeburg town privileges to the town of Damm (also known as Altdamm) on the eastern bank of the Oder.<ref>Roderich Schmidt, ''Pommern und Mecklenburg'', Böhlau, 1981, p.{{nbsp}}61, {{ISBN|3-412-06976-0}}</ref><ref name=Johanek277>Peter Johanek, Franz-Joseph Post, ''Städtebuch Hinterpommern 2–3'', ], 2003, p.{{nbsp}}277, {{ISBN|3-17-018152-1}}</ref> Damm merged with neighbouring Szczecin on 15{{nbsp}}October 1939 and is now the ] neighbourhood.<ref>Johannes Hinz, ''Pommernlexikon'', Kraft, 1994, p.{{nbsp}}25, {{ISBN|3-8083-1164-9}}</ref> This town had been built on the site of a former ] burg, "Vadam" or "Dambe", which Boleslaw had destroyed during his 1121 campaign.<ref name=Johanek277/> | |||
12th century: 5,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1720: 6,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1740: 12,300 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1816: 21,500 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1843: 37,100 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1861: 58,500 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1872: 76,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1890: 116,228 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1910: 236,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1939: 382,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1945: ? | |||
<br/> 1950: ? | |||
<br/> 1960: 269,400 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1970: 338,000 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1975: 369,700 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1980: 388,300 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 1990: ? | |||
<br/> 2000: ? | |||
<br/> 2002: 413,600 inhabitants | |||
<br/> 2004: 419,000 inhabitants | |||
On 2 December 1261, Barnim I allowed Jewish settlement in Szczecin in accordance with the Magdeburg law, in a privilege renewed in 1308 and 1371.<ref name=heitmann225>{{citation|last=Heitmann|first=Margret|chapter=Synagoge und freie christliche Gemeinde in Stettin|title="Halte fern dem ganzen Lande jedes Verderben..". Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Pommern|editor1-last=Heitmann|editor1-first=Margret|editor2-last=Schoeps|editor2-first=Julius|publisher=Olms|location=Hildesheim/Zürich/New York|year=1995|language=de|isbn=3-487-10074-6|pages=225–238; p. 225}}</ref> The Jewish Jordan family was granted citizenship in 1325, but none of the 22 Jews allowed to settle in the duchy in 1481 lived in the city, and in 1492, all Jews in the duchy were ordered to convert to Christianity or leave{{snds}}this order remained effective throughout the rest of the Griffin era.<ref name=heitmann225/> | |||
== Architecture and urban planning == | |||
In 1273, in Szczecin duke of ] and future King of Poland ] married princess ], granddaughter of ], in order to strengthen the alliance between the two rulers.<ref>''Kronika wielkopolska'', ], Warszawa, 1965, p. 297 (in Polish)</ref> | |||
Szczecin's architectural style is mainly influenced by those of last half of ] and first twenty years of the ] mostly by ] and ]. In many areas build after ] ] is prevalent. | |||
Szczecin was part of the federation of ], a predecessor of the ], in 1283.<ref name="Wernicke">{{cite book |last=Wernicke |first=Horst |chapter=Die Hansestädte an der Oder |title=Oder-Odra. Blicke auf einen europäischen Strom |editor1-first=Karl |editor1-last=Schlögel |editor2-first=Beata |editor2-last=Halicka |publisher=Lang |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-631-56149-2 |pages=137–48; here p. 142 |language=de}}</ref> The city prospered due to its participation in the ] trade, primarily with ], grain, and timber; craftsmanship also prospered, and more than forty guilds were established in the city.<ref name=aps344/> The far-reaching autonomy granted by the House of Griffins was in part reduced when the dukes reclaimed Stettin as their main residence in the late 15th century.<ref name=aps344/> The anti-Slavic policies of German merchants and craftsmen intensified in this period, resulting in measures such as bans on people of Slavic descent joining ] guilds, a doubling of customs tax for Slavic merchants, and bans against public usage of their native language.<ref name="Bialecki"/> The more prosperous Slavic citizens were forcibly stripped of their possessions, which were then handed over to Germans.<ref name="Bialecki"/> In 1514, the guild of tailors added a ''Wendenparagraph'' to its statutes, banning Slavs.<ref name=slaski97>{{cite book|last=Ślaski|first=Kazimierz|chapter=Volkstumswandel in Pommern vom 12. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert|editor-last=Kirchhoff|editor-first=Hans Georg|title=Beiträge zur Geschichte Pommerns und Pommerellens. Mit einem Geleitwort von Klaus Zernack|location=Dortmund|year=1987|isbn=3-923293-19-4|pages=94–109; p. 97|language=de |publisher=Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa }}</ref> | |||
Urban planning of Szczecin is unusual. The first thing observed by a newcomer is abundance of green areas: ] and avenues – wide streets with trees planted in the island separating opposite traffic (where often ] tracks are laid); and ]. This makes Szczecin's city project quite similar to that of ]. The reason is, Szczecin (like Paris) was rebuild in 1880s using a design by ]. | |||
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This course of designing streets in Szczecin is still used, as many recently built (or modified) city areas include roundabouts and avenues. | |||
While not as heavily affected by medieval ] as other regions of the empire, there are reports of the burning of three women and one man convicted of ] in 1538.<ref>Hubertus Fischer, ''Klosterfrauen, Klosterhexen: Theodor Fontanes Sidonie von Borcke im kulturellen Kontext : Klosterseminar des Fontane-Kreises Hannover der Theodor-Fontane-Gesellschaft e.V. mit dem Konvent des Klosters St. Marienberg vom 14. bis 15. November 2003 in Helmstedt'', Rübenberger Verlag Tania Weiss, 2005, p.{{nbsp}}22, {{ISBN|3-936788-07-3}}</ref> | |||
In 1570, during the reign of ], ] ending the ]. During the war, Stettin had tended to side with ], while ] tended toward ]{{snds}}as a whole, however, the Duchy of Pomerania tried to maintain neutrality.<ref name=Inachim62>Kyra Inachim, ''Die Geschichte Pommerns'', Hinstorff Rostock, 2008, p.{{nbsp}}62, {{ISBN|978-3-356-01044-2}}</ref> Nevertheless, a ] that had met in Stettin in 1563 introduced a sixfold rise in real estate taxes to finance the raising of a mercenary army for the duchy's defence.<ref name=Inachim62/> Johann Friedrich also succeeded in elevating Stettin to one of only three places allowed to ] in the ] of the Holy Roman Empire, the other two places being ] and ].<ref>Joachim Krüger, ''Zwischen dem Reich und Schweden: die landesherrliche Münzprägung im Herzogtum Pommern und in Schwedisch-Pommern in der frühen Neuzeit (ca. 1580 bis 1715)'', LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006, pp.{{nbsp}}53–55, {{ISBN|3-8258-9768-0}}</ref> ], who resided in Stettin beginning in 1620, became the sole ruler and Griffin duke when ] died in 1625. Before the ] reached Pomerania, the city, as well as the entire duchy, declined economically due to the decrease in importance of the Hanseatic League and a conflict between Stettin and ].<ref name=Inachim65>Kyra Inachim, ''Die Geschichte Pommerns'', Hinstorff Rostock, 2008, p.{{nbsp}}65, {{ISBN|978-3-356-01044-2}}</ref> | |||
== Politics and Administration == | |||
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=== 17th to 18th centuries === | ||
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Following the ], the town (along with most of Pomerania) was allied to and occupied by the ], which managed to keep the ] after the death of Bogislaw{{nbsp}}XIV in 1637. From the ] in 1648, Stettin became the Capital of Swedish Pomerania.<ref name="auto">Swedish encyclopedia "Bonniers lexikon" (1960's), vol 13:15, column 1227</ref> Stettin was turned into a major Swedish fortress, which was repeatedly besieged in subsequent wars.<ref name=aps345/> The next ] did not change this, but due to the downfall of the Swedish Empire after ], the city went to ] in 1720.<ref name="auto"/> Instead Stralsund became capital of the last remaining parts of Swedish Pomerania 1720–1815.<ref>Swedish encyclopedia "Bonniers lexikon" (1960's), vol 13:15, column s 709-710</ref> | |||
Szczecin is governed by city council and mayor. Mayor (''prezydent miasta''), as well as council, is elected by city's citizens every four years. | |||
The city was on the path of Polish forces led by ] ] moving from Denmark during the ]. Czarniecki, who led his forces to the city,<ref>''Historia Szczecina: zarys dziejów miasta od czasów najdawniejszych'', Tadeusz Białecki, 1992: "Nowa wojna polsko-szwedzka w połowie XVII w. nie ominęła i Szczecina. Oprócz zwiększonych podatków i zahamowania handlu w 1657 r. pod Szczecinem pojawiły się oddziały polskie Stefana Czarnieckiego"</ref> is today mentioned in the ], and numerous locations in the city honour his name. | |||
], ] icon, is Szczecin's mayor. His achievements are however widely criticised and he is blamed for over 10 millions ]s compensations which city must pay for canceling the land selling deal, his lack of formal education, and his apparent cluelessness in many important matters. Mr Jurczyk famous errors includes forgetting the name of his own deputy he just nominated or quoting Jesus in his speech to the council. | |||
Wars inhibited the city's economic prosperity, which had undergone a deep crisis during the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and was further impeded by the new Swedish-Brandenburg-Prussian frontier, cutting Stettin off from its traditional ]n hinterland.<ref name=aps344>], ''Staatsarchiv Stettin: Wegweiser durch die Bestände bis zum Jahr 1945'', German translation of Radosław Gaziński, Paweł Gut, Maciej Szukała, ''Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie, Poland. Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych'', Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, p.{{nbsp}}344, {{ISBN|3-486-57641-0}}</ref> Due to a ] during the ], the city's population dropped from 6,000 people in 1709 to 4,000 in 1711.<ref name="Buchholz, p.{{nbsp}}532">Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}532, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> In 1720, after the Great Northern War, Sweden was forced to cede the city to King ]. Stettin was made the capital city of ], since 1815 reorganised as the ]. In 1816, the city had 26,000 inhabitants.<ref name="Buchholz, p. 416">Werner Buchholz, Pommern, Siedler, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}416, {{ISBN|3-88680-272-8}}</ref> | |||
Because of this criticism recall voices of recall were raised. On ] ] necessary 32 000 signatures were received by Recall Committee. Recall referendum took place on ] ]. However the necessary 30% turnout wasn't reached as only 19% of voters cast their ballots. An overwhelming majority of those voting (92%), supported mayor's recall. This means that current political situation is quite difficult. | |||
The Prussian administration deprived the city of its right to administrative autonomy, abolished ] privileges as well as its status as a staple town, and subsidised manufacturers.<ref name=aps345/> Also, colonists were settled in the city, primarily ] ].<ref name=aps345/> The French established a prosperous community, greatly contributed to the city's economic revival, and were treated with reluctance by the German burghers and city authorities.<ref>{{cite book|last=Skrycki|first=Radosław|editor-last=Rembacka|editor-first=Katarzyna|year=2011|title=Szczecin i jego miejsca. Trzecia Konferencja Edukacyjna, 10 XII 2010 r.|language=pl|location=Szczecin|page=96|chapter=Z okresu wojny i pokoju – "francuskie" miejsca w Szczecinie z XVIII i XIX wieku|isbn=978-83-61233-45-9}}</ref> | |||
=== Municipal administration === | |||
=== 19th to 20th centuries === | |||
Szczecin is divided into the auxiliary local government districts called ''neighbourhood councils'' (''rady osiedla''). Those districts elect their own councils and are responsible mainly for small infrastructure like ]s, park benches, ]s, etc. Other functions are mostly advisory. | |||
In October 1806, during the ], believing that he was facing a much larger force, and after receiving a threat of harsh treatment of the city, the Prussian commander ] agreed to ] to the French led by ].<ref>Petre, 252–253</ref> In fact, Lasalle had only 800 men against von{{nbsp}}Romberg's 5,300 men. In March 1809 Romberg was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for giving up Stettin without a fight. In 1809, also Polish troops were stationed in the city, while the French remained until 1813. | |||
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From 1683 to 1812, one Jew was permitted to reside in Stettin, and an additional Jew was allowed to spend a night in the city in case of "urgent business".<ref name=heitmann225/> These permissions were repeatedly withdrawn between 1691 and 1716, also between 1726 and 1730 although else the Swedish regulation was continued by the Prussian administration.<ref name=heitmann225/> Only after the ] of 11{{nbsp}}March 1812, which granted Prussian citizenship to all Jews living in the kingdom, did a Jewish community emerge in Stettin, with the first Jews settling in the town in 1814.<ref name=heitmann225/> Construction of a synagogue started in 1834; the community also owned a religious and a secular school, an orphanage since 1855, and a retirement home since 1893.<ref name=heitmann226>{{citation|last=Heitmann|first=Margret|chapter=Synagoge und freie christliche Gemeinde in Stettin|title="Halte fern dem ganzen Lande jedes Verderben..". Geschichte und Kultur der Juden in Pommern|editor1-last=Heitmann|editor1-first=Margret|editor2-last=Schoeps|editor2-first=Julius|publisher=Olms|location=Hildesheim/Zürich/New York|year=1995|language=de|isbn=3-487-10074-6|pages=225–238; p. 226}}</ref> The Jewish community had between 1,000 and 1,200 members by 1873 and between 2,800 and 3,000 members by 1927{{nsndns}}28.<ref name=heitmann226/> These numbers dropped to 2,701 in 1930 and to 2,322 in late 1934.<ref name=heitmann226/> | |||
==== Dzielnica Śródmieście (Middle Town) ==== | |||
After the ], 1,700 French ]s were imprisoned there in deplorable conditions, resulting in the deaths of 600;<ref>Kultura i sztuka Szczecina w latach 1800–1945:materiały Seminarium Oddziału Szczecińskiego Stowarzyszenia Historyków Sztuki, 16–17 październik 1998 Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki. Oddział Szczeciński. Seminarium, Maria Glińska</ref> after the Second World War monuments in their memory were built by the Polish authorities. | |||
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Until 1873, Stettin remained a fortress.<ref name=aps345/> When part of the defensive structures were levelled, a new neighbourhood, ''Neustadt'' ("New Town") as well as water pipes, ] and drainage, and gas works were built to meet the demands of the growing population.<ref name=aps345/> | |||
==== Dzielnica Północ (North) ==== | |||
Stettin developed into a major Prussian port and became part of the ] in 1871. While most of the province retained its agrarian character, Stettin was ], and its population rose from 27,000 in 1813 to 210,000 in 1900 and 255,500 in 1925.<ref name="Schmidt 2009 19–20">{{cite book|last=Schmidt|first=Roderich|title=Das historische Pommern. Personen, Orte, Ereignisse|volume=41|series=Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern|edition=2|publisher=Böhlau|location=Köln-Weimar|year=2009|isbn=978-3-412-20436-5|language=de|pages=19–20}}</ref> Major industries that flourished in Stettin from 1840 were shipbuilding, chemical and food industries, and machinery construction.<ref name=aps345/> Starting in 1843, Stettin became connected to the major German and Pomeranian cities by railways, and the water connection to the ] was enhanced by the construction of the ] (now Piast) canal.<ref name=aps345/> The city was also a scientific centre; for example, it was home to the ]. | |||
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==== Dzielnica Zachód (West)==== | |||
On 20 October 1890, some of the city's Poles created the "Society of Polish-Catholic Workers" in the city, one of the first Polish organisations.<ref>Dzieje Szczecina:1806–1945 p.{{nbsp}}450 Bogdan Frankiewicz 1994</ref> In 1897, the city's ship works began the construction of the ] battleship '']''. In 1914, before World War{{nbsp}}I, the Polish community in the city numbered over 3,000 people,<ref name="Bialecki"/> contributing about 2% of the population.<ref name="Schmidt 2009 19–20"/> These were primarily industrial workers and their families who came from the ] (Posen) area<ref name=Musekamp72>{{cite book|title=Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin|volume=27|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|first=Jan|last=Musekamp|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2009|isbn=978-3-447-06273-2|language=de|page=72}}. Quote1: " Polen, die sich bereits vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in der Stadt befunden hatten. Es handelte sich bei ihnen zum einen um Industriearbeiter und ihre Angehörigen, die bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg meist aus der Gegend um Posen in das damals zum selben Staat gehörende Stettin gezogen waren "</ref> and a few local wealthy industrialists and merchants. Among them was Kazimierz Pruszak, director of the Gollnow industrial works and a Polish patriot, who predicted the eventual "return" of Szczecin to Poland.<ref name="Bialecki"/> | |||
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During the ], Stettin was ]'s largest port on the Baltic Sea, and her third-largest port after ] and ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Schmidt|first=Roderich|title=Das historische Pommern. Personen, Orte, Ereignisse|volume=41|series=Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern|edition=2|publisher=Böhlau|location=Köln-Weimar|year=2009|isbn=978-3-412-20436-5|language=de|page=20}}</ref> Cars of the ] automobile company were produced in Stettin from 1899 to 1945. By 1939, the ] ]{{nsndns}}Stettin was completed.<ref name=aps345/> | |||
==== Dzielnica Prawobrzeże (Right-Bank)==== | |||
Stettin played a major role as an entrepôt in the development of the Scottish herring trade with the Continent, peaking at an annual export of more than 400,000 barrels in 1885, 1894 and 1898. Trade flourished until the outbreak of the First World War and resumed on a reduced scale during the years between the wars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishherringhistory.uk/statistics/AnnualExport.html|title=Annual Statistics|work=scottishherringhistory.uk}}</ref> | |||
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In the ] to the Reichstag, the Nazis and German nationalists from the ] (or DNVP) won most of the votes in the city, together winning 98,626 of 165,331 votes (59.3%), with the NSDAP getting 79,729 (47.9%) and the DNVP 18,897 (11.4%).<ref name="verwaltungsgeschichte.de">{{cite web |url=http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/stettin.html |title=Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Pommern, Kreis Stettin |publisher=Verwaltungsgeschichte.de |access-date=2011-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723075150/http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/stettin.html |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
=== other historical neigbourhoods === | |||
In 1935, the ] made Stettin the headquarters for Wehrkreis{{nbsp}}II, which controlled the ] in all of ] and Pomerania. It was also the area headquarters for units stationed at Stettin{{nbsp}}I and II; Swinemünde (]); ]; and ]. | |||
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In the interwar period, the Polish minority numbered 2,000 people,<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name="AP & BD 1961">Polonia szczecińska 1890–1939 Anna Poniatowska Bogusław Drewniak, Poznań 1961</ref> less than 1% of the city's population at that time.<ref name="Schmidt 2009 19–20"/> A number of Poles were members of the ] (ZPN), which was active in the city from 1924.<ref>''Historyczna droga do polskiego Szczecina:wybór dokumentów i opracowań''. Kazimierz Kozłowski, Stanisław Krzywicki. Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, p.{{nbsp}}79, 1988</ref> A Polish consulate was located in the city between 1925 and 1939.<ref name=Musekamp73>{{cite book|title=Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin|volume=27|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|first=Jan|last=Musekamp|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2009|isbn=978-3-447-06273-2|language=de|page=73}}</ref> On the initiative of the consulate<ref name=Musekamp73/> and ZPN activist Maksymilian Golisz,<ref name=Musekamp74>{{cite book|title=Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin|volume=27|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|first=Jan|last=Musekamp|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2009|isbn=978-3-447-06273-2|language=de|page=74}}</ref> a number of Polish institutions were established, e.g., a Polish Scout team and a Polish school.<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name=Musekamp73/> German historian Musekamp writes, "however, only very few Poles were active in these institutions, which for the most part were headed by employees of the consulate."<ref name=Musekamp74/> The withdrawal of the consulate from these institutions led to a general decline of these activities, which were in part upheld by Golisz and Aleksander Omieczyński.<ref>{{cite book|title=Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Szczecinie w latach 1925–1939. Powstanie i działalność|first=Wojciech|last=Skóra|publisher=Pomorska Akademia Pedagogiczna w Słupsku|year=2001|isbn=83-88731-15-7|language=pl|page=139}}</ref> Intensified repressions by the Nazis,<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name="AP & BD 1961"/> who exaggerated the Polish activities to propagate an infiltration,<ref name=Musekamp74/> led to the closing of the school.<ref name="Bialecki"/> In 1938, the head of Szczecin's Union of Poles unit, Stanisław Borkowski, was imprisoned in ] concentration camp in ].<ref name="Bialecki"/> In 1939, all Polish organisations in Stettin were disbanded by the German authorities.<ref name="Bialecki"/> Golisz and Omieczyński were murdered during the war.<ref name="Bialecki"/> After the defeat of Nazi Germany, a street was named after Golisz.<ref name=Musekamp74/> According to German historian Jan Musekamp, the activities of the Polish pre-war organizations were exaggerated after World War II for propaganda purposes.<ref>Musekamp, Jan: Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin, p. 74, with reference to: Edward Wlodarczyk: "Próba krytycznego spojrzenia na dzieje Polonii Szczecińskiej do 1939 roku" in Pomerania Ethnica, Szczecin 1998 Quote: ''"..und so musste die Bedeutung der erwähnten Organisationen im Sinne der Propaganda übertrieben werden."''</ref> | |||
=== Members of European Parliament (]s) from Szczecin === | |||
==== World War II ==== | |||
* ], ], historian, rector of ] | |||
During ], Stettin was the base for the ], which cut across the ] and was later used in 1940 as an embarkation point for ], Germany's assault on Denmark and ].<ref>Gilbert, M (1989) Second World War, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, P52</ref> | |||
* ], ], economist, minister of transport | |||
* ], ], architect and politician, elected in Silesian constituency, but lives in Szczecin | |||
On 15 October 1939, neighbouring municipalities were joined to Stettin, creating Groß-Stettin, with about 380,000 inhabitants, in 1940.<ref name=aps345>Peter Oliver Loew, ''Staatsarchiv Stettin: Wegweiser durch die Bestände bis zum Jahr 1945'', German translation of Radosław Gaziński, Paweł Gut, Maciej Szukała, ''Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie, Poland. Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych'', Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, p.{{nbsp}}345, {{ISBN|3-486-57641-0}}</ref> The city had become the third-largest German city by area, after Berlin and Hamburg.<ref>{{cite book|last=Stolzenburg|first=Katrin|chapter=Hans Bernhard Reichow (1899–1974)|title=Architektur und Städtebau im südlichen Ostseeraum zwischen 1936 und 1980|editor-first=Bernfried|editor-last=Lichtnau|publisher=Lukas Verlag|year=2002|isbn=3-931836-74-6|language=de|pages=137–152; p. 140}}</ref> | |||
=== Members of Sejm from Szczecin constituency === | |||
Members of Parliament (]) elected from Szczecin constituency | |||
As the war started, the number of non-Germans in the city increased as ] were brought in. The first transports came in 1939 from ], ] and ]. They were mainly used in a synthetic silk factory near Stettin.<ref name="Bialecki"/> The next wave of slave workers was brought in 1940, in addition to PoWs who were used for work in the agricultural industry.<ref name="Bialecki"/> According to German police reports from 1940, 15,000 Polish slave workers lived within the city.<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tey6mM1RCs0C&q=autochthons+poland&pg=PA72 | |||
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During the war, 135 forced labour camps for slave workers were established in the city. Most of the 25,000 slave workers were Poles, but ], ], Frenchmen and ], as well as Dutch citizens, were also enslaved in the camps.<ref name="Bialecki"/> A Nazi prison was also operated in the city, with forced labour subcamps in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=100001209|title=Gefängnis Stettin|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=15 May 2021|language=de}}</ref> | |||
== Economy == | |||
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Szczecin has the biggest shipyard in Poland, which recently went bankrupt and was successfully reinstated. It has a fishing industry and a steel mill. | |||
In February 1940, ] to the ]. International press reports emerged, describing how the Nazis forced Jews, regardless of age, condition and gender, to sign away all property and loaded them onto trains headed to the camp, escorted by members of the ] and ]. Due to publicity given to the event, German institutions ordered such future actions to be made in a way unlikely to attract public notice.<ref>''The Origins of ]'' ], ], page 64 ] Press, 2007</ref> The action was the first deportation of Jews from prewar territory in Nazi Germany.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry|url=https://archive.org/details/holocaustfateofe00yahi|url-access=limited|last=Yahil|first=Leni|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=0-19-504522-X|location=Oxford|pages=}}</ref> | |||
=== Major companies: === | |||
] ] in 1944 and heavy fighting between the German and ] armies destroyed 65% of Stettin's buildings and almost all of the city centre, the seaport, and local industries. Polish ] intelligence assisted in pinpointing targets for Allied bombing in the area of Stettin.<ref>Polski ruch oporu 1939–1945 Andrzej Chmielarz, Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny im. Wandy Wasilewskiej, Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1988 page 1019</ref> The city itself was covered by the Home Army's "Bałtyk" structure, and Polish resistance infiltrated Stettin's naval yards.<ref>Wywiad Związku Walki Zbrojnej—Armii Krajowej, 1939–1945 Piotr Matusak 2002 page 166</ref><ref>Wywiad Polskich Sił Zbrojnych na Zachodzie 1939–1945 Andrzej Pepłoński AWM, 1995 page 342</ref> Other activities of the resistance consisted of smuggling people to Sweden.<ref>Cudzoziemcy w polskim ruchu oporu: 1939–1945 Stanisław Okęcki 1975 page 49</ref> | |||
* Swedwood Poland SA, Szczecin | |||
* Zespół Elektrowni Dolna Odra SA, Nowe Czarnowo | |||
* Stocznia Szczecińska Nowa sp. z o.o., Szczecin | |||
* Polska Żegluga Morska SA, Szczecin | |||
* Netto Artykuły Żywnościowe sp. z o.o., Kobylanka | |||
* Komfort sp. z o.o., Szczecin | |||
* Petrocargo/OW Bunker sp. z o.o., Szczecin | |||
* Vobis Microcomputer sp. z o.o., Szczecin | |||
* PZE Cefarm-Szczecin SA, Szczecin | |||
* Bosman Browar Szczecin SA, Szczecin | |||
* home.pl, Szczecin | |||
* Agencja Reklamowa Anny Turkiewicz, Szczecin | |||
* Agryf SA, Szczecin | |||
* Drobimex, Szczecin | |||
See also ]. | |||
The Soviet ] captured the city on 26{{nbsp}}April 1945. While the majority of the almost 400,000 inhabitants had left the city, between 6,000 and 20,000 inhabitants remained in late April.<ref name=Dok>{{cite book| first1=Jörg |last1=Hackmann| first2=Tadeusz | last2=Bialecki|title=Stettin Szczecin 1945-1946 Dokument – Erinnerungen, Dokumenty - Wspomnienia |publisher=Hinstorff|year=1995 | pages=97, 283, 287 |isbn= 3-356-00528-6|language=de}}</ref> | |||
== Culture == | |||
] from the ] River. Most of the medieval buildings in the city centre were completely destroyed during ]. The ] can be seen in the background.]] | |||
Major cultural events in Szczecin are: | |||
* Days of the Sea (Polish ''Dni Morza'') held every June | |||
* Days of The Ukrainian Culture (Polish ''Dni Kultury Ukraińskiej'') held every May. | |||
* Air show on Dabie airport held every May | |||
On 28 April 1945 Polish authorities tried to gain control,<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name=Dok/> but in the following month, the Polish administration was twice forced to leave. The reason for this was, according to Polish sources, that the Western Allies raised protest against the Soviet and Polish policy of creating a fait-accomplit in ].<ref name=Musekamp72/> Finally the permanent handover occurred on 5{{nbsp}}July 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.szczecin.pl/strasse/kalendar_uk.htm|title=Chronicle of the most important events in the history of Szczecin|work=Szczecin.pl|date=2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607192402/http://www.szczecin.pl/strasse/kalendar_uk.htm |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> In the meantime, part of the German population had returned, believing it might become part of the ].<ref name=Piskorski376>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}376, {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> The Soviet authorities had already appointed the German Communists Erich Spiegel and ] as mayors.<ref>Grete Grewolls: ''Wer war wer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern? Ein Personenlexikon''. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, {{ISBN|3-86108-282-9}}, p.{{nbsp}}467.</ref> Stettin is located mostly west of the Oder River, which was expected to become Poland's new western border, placing Stettin in East Germany. This would have been in accordance with the ] between the victorious Allied powers, which envisaged the ] to be in "a line running from the Baltic Sea immediately west of Swinemünde, and thence along the Oder River". Because of the returnees, the German population of the town swelled to 84,000.<ref name=Piskorski376/> The ] was at 20%, primarily due to starvation.<ref name=Piskorski377>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, p.{{nbsp}}377, {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> However, Stettin and the mouth of the Oder River became Polish on 5{{nbsp}}July 1945, as had been decided in a treaty signed on 26{{nbsp}}July 1944 between the Soviet Union and the Soviet-controlled ] (PKWN) (also known as "the Lublin Poles", as contrasted with the ]-based ]).<ref name="Bialecki"/> On 4{{nbsp}}October 1945, the decisive land border of Poland was established west of the 1945 line,<ref name="Bialecki"/><ref name=Piskorski380381>Jan M Piskorski, Pommern im Wandel der Zeiten, 1999, pp. 380–381, {{ISBN|83-906184-8-6}} {{OCLC|43087092}}</ref> and the city was renamed to its historic Polish name Szczecin, but the area excluded the ] area, the Oder River itself and the port of Szczecin, which remained under Soviet administration.<ref name=Piskorski380381/> The Oder River was handed over to Polish administration in September 1946, followed by the port between February 1946 and May 1954.<ref name=Piskorski380381/> | |||
=== Museums === | |||
==== Post-war ==== | |||
* National Museum in Szczecin (Polish ''Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie'') collects arts, old jewelry, military equipment. It has three branches: | |||
]: the pre-war Poles in Szczecin, the Poles who rebuilt the city after ], and the modern generation]] | |||
** Museum of the City of Szczecin (Polish ''Muzeum Miasta Szczecina'') | |||
** Maritime Museum (Polish ''Muzeum Morskie'') | |||
** Gallery of Contemporary Arts (Polish ''Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej'') | |||
* Museum of the Szczecin Archidiocese (Polish ''Muzeum Archidiecezjalne w Szczecinie'') collects sacral arts and historical documents | |||
While in 1945 the number of pre-war inhabitants dropped to 57,215 on 31 October 1945, the ] started on 22 February 1946 and continued until late 1947, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. In December 1946 about 17,000 German inhabitants remained, while the number of Poles living in the city reached 100,000.<ref name=Dok/> To ease the tensions between settlers from different regions, and help overcome fear caused by the continued presence of the Soviet troops, a special event was organised in April 1946 with 50,000 visitors in the partly destroyed city centre.<ref name=mcnamara3>{{cite book|last=McNamara|first=Paul|chapter=Competing National and Regional Identities in Poland's Baltic|title=History of Communism in Europe|volume=3|year=2012|isbn=9786068266275|pages=30–31; p. 31 |others=Bogdan C. Iacob |publisher=Zeta Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70ECBQAAQBAJ}}</ref> Settlers from Central Poland made up about 70% of Szczecin's new population.<ref name=musekamp20>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 20}}</ref> In addition to Poles, Ukrainians from ] settled there.<ref name=musekamp20/> Also Poles repatriated from ], ] and ], ], settled in Szczecin in the following years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://szczecin.tvp.pl/42971441/wyjatkowa-wystawa-o-historii-w-chinskiej-mandzurii-i-jej-finale-w-szczecinie|title=Wyjątkowa wystawa o historii w chińskiej Mandżurii i jej finale w Szczecinie|website=TVP3 Szczecin|author=Przemysław Plecan|access-date=15 May 2021|language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kubasiewicz|first=Izabela|editor-last1=Dworaczek|editor-first1=Kamil|editor-last2=Kamiński|editor-first2=Łukasz|year=2013|title=Letnia Szkoła Historii Najnowszej 2012. Referaty|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=]|pages=117–118|chapter=Emigranci z Grecji w Polsce Ludowej. Wybrane aspekty z życia mniejszości}}</ref> In 1945 and 1946, the city was the starting point of the northern route used by the Jewish underground organisation ] to channel Jewish ]s from ] to the ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Königseder|first=Angelika|chapter=Durchgangsstation Berlin. Jüdische Displaced Persons 1945–1948|title=Überlebt und unterwegs. Jüdische Displaced Persons im Nachkriegsdeutschland|editor-last=Giere|editor-first=Jacqueline|publisher=Campus Verlag|year=1997|isbn=3-593-35843-3|language=de|pages=189–206; pp. 191–192|display-editors=etal}}</ref> | |||
=== Arts and Entartainment === | |||
Szczecin was rebuilt, and the city's industry was expanded. At the same time, Szczecin became a major Polish industrial centre and an important seaport (particularly for ]n coal) for Poland, ] and ]. Cultural expansion was accompanied by a campaign resulting in the "removal of all German traces".<ref name=musekamp2223>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; pp. 22–23}}</ref> In 1946, ] prominently mentioned the city in his ] speech: "From Stettin in the Baltic to ] in the ] an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".<ref>British Information Services </ref><ref>Peter H. Merkl, '''', Penn State Press, 2004, p.{{nbsp}}338</ref> | |||
] workers' strike against the ] in Poland, August 1980]] | |||
The city witnessed ] revolts in 1956,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.szczecin.uw.gov.pl/?type=article&action=view&id=14767|title=Upamiętnienie wydarzeń z 10 grudnia 1956 r|website=szczecin.uw.gov.pl|date=10 December 2019|access-date=21 April 2023|language=pl}}</ref> ] and 1980.<ref name=pr>{{cite web|url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/39/156/Artykul/674436,Porozumienie-szczecinskie-krok-ku-wolnosci|title=Porozumienie szczecińskie: krok ku wolności|website=PolskieRadio.pl|access-date=15 May 2021|language=pl}}</ref> On 30 August 1980, first of the four '']'', which led to the first legalisation of the trade union ], was signed in Szczecin.<ref name=pr/> The introduction of ] in December 1981 met with a strike by the dockworkers of Szczecin shipyard, joined by other factories and workplaces in a ]. All these were suppressed by the authorities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naszemiasto.stetinum.pl/pl/wiadomosci/kalendarium/Dzis_rocznica_wprowadzenia_stanu_wojennego|title=Dziś rocznica wprowadzenia stanu wojennego – Szczecin|trans-title=Today is the anniversary of the imposition of martial law – Szczecin|publisher=Naszemiasto.stetinum.pl|access-date=3 June 2011}}{{dead link|date=March 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.13grudnia81.pl/sw/galeria-1/szczecin/6067,Manifestacje-studenckie.html |title=Wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w Szczecinie – Wiadomości – Szczecin |publisher=Sedinum.stetinum.pl |date=13 December 2009 |access-date=2011-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222123959/http://www.13grudnia81.pl/sw/galeria-1/szczecin/6067,Manifestacje-studenckie.html |archive-date=22 December 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Pope ] visited the city on 11{{nbsp}}June 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gs24.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/SZCZECIN/542492938 |title=Papież w Szczecinie |author=Monika Stefanek |date=11 April 2008 |publisher=GS24.pl – Serwis Głosu Szczecińskiego |access-date=19 April 2011 |language=pl}}</ref> Another wave of strikes in Szczecin broke out in ] and 1989, which eventually led to the ] and first ]. | |||
Szczecin has been the capital of the ] since 1999. | |||
== Geography == | |||
=== Climate === | |||
Szczecin has an ] (]: ''Cfb'') with some ] (''Dfb'') characteristics in normal not updated, typical of ]. The winters are colder than on the immediate coast and the summers are warm, but still with some moderation, especially due to the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=50221&cityname=Szczecin,+Poland|title=Szczecin, Poland Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)|website=Weatherbase|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201152101/http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=50221&cityname=Szczecin%2C+Poland|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
The average air temperature in Szczecin ranges from 8 to 8.4 °C. The hottest month is July with a temperature of 15.8 °C to 20.3 °C, the coldest January from -4.1 °C to 2.6 °C. Air temperature below 0 °C occurs on average over 86 days a year, most frequently in January and February. The average annual rainfall is 537 mm, the average rainfall in the cool half-year is 225 mm, and in the warmer half-year is 350 mm. On average, 167 days with precipitation occurs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ikzm-oder.de/download.php?fileid=2150|title=Stan środowiska miasta Szczecina|date=May 2004|publisher=Küsteninformationssystem Odermündung|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214822/http://www.ikzm-oder.de/download.php?fileid=2150|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
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| Jun mean C = 16.8 | |||
| Jul mean C = 18.9 | |||
| Aug mean C = 18.5 | |||
| Sep mean C = 14.3 | |||
| Oct mean C = 9.5 | |||
| Nov mean C = 4.9 | |||
| Dec mean C = 1.9 | |||
| year mean C = 9.5 | |||
| Jan low C = -1.8 | |||
| Feb low C = -1.3 | |||
| Mar low C = 0.4 | |||
| Apr low C = 4.0 | |||
| May low C = 8.2 | |||
| Jun low C = 11.5 | |||
| Jul low C = 13.8 | |||
| Aug low C = 13.5 | |||
| Sep low C = 9.9 | |||
| Oct low C = 6.0 | |||
| Nov low C = 2.4 | |||
| Dec low C = -0.5 | |||
| year low C = 5.5 | |||
| Jan avg record low C = -11.8 | |||
| Feb avg record low C = -9.9 | |||
| Mar avg record low C = -7.3 | |||
| Apr avg record low C = -3.2 | |||
| May avg record low C = 1.1 | |||
| Jun avg record low C = 5.7 | |||
| Jul avg record low C = 8.2 | |||
| Aug avg record low C = 7.2 | |||
| Sep avg record low C = 3.0 | |||
| Oct avg record low C = -2.1 | |||
| Nov avg record low C = -4.8 | |||
| Dec avg record low C = -8.6 | |||
| year avg record low C = -15.0 | |||
| Jan record low C = -30.0 | |||
| Feb record low C = -28.7 | |||
| Mar record low C = -23.1 | |||
| Apr record low C = -7.7 | |||
| May record low C = -4.4 | |||
| Jun record low C = 0.3 | |||
| Jul record low C = 4.4 | |||
| Aug record low C = 1.2 | |||
| Sep record low C = -2.6 | |||
| Oct record low C = -6.9 | |||
| Nov record low C = -11.4 | |||
| Dec record low C = -22.3 | |||
| year record low C = -30.0 | |||
| precipitation colour = green | |||
| Jan precipitation mm = 40.0 | |||
| Feb precipitation mm = 32.8 | |||
| Mar precipitation mm = 38.4 | |||
| Apr precipitation mm = 31.2 | |||
| May precipitation mm = 55.8 | |||
| Jun precipitation mm = 59.1 | |||
| Jul precipitation mm = 76.2 | |||
| Aug precipitation mm = 60.3 | |||
| Sep precipitation mm = 47.7 | |||
| Oct precipitation mm = 43.5 | |||
| Nov precipitation mm = 39.0 | |||
| Dec precipitation mm = 43.0 | |||
| year precipitation mm = 567.1 | |||
| Jan snow depth cm = 3.6 | |||
| Feb snow depth cm = 4.0 | |||
| Mar snow depth cm = 1.9 | |||
| Apr snow depth cm = 0.4 | |||
| May snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Jun snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Jul snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Aug snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Sep snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Oct snow depth cm = 0.0 | |||
| Nov snow depth cm = 0.7 | |||
| Dec snow depth cm = 2.3 | |||
| year snow depth cm = | |||
| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm | |||
| Jan precipitation days = 16.13 | |||
| Feb precipitation days = 14.54 | |||
| Mar precipitation days = 13.53 | |||
| Apr precipitation days = 11.07 | |||
| May precipitation days = 13.57 | |||
| Jun precipitation days = 13.07 | |||
| Jul precipitation days = 14.17 | |||
| Aug precipitation days = 13.10 | |||
| Sep precipitation days = 11.93 | |||
| Oct precipitation days = 14.07 | |||
| Nov precipitation days = 14.60 | |||
| Dec precipitation days = 16.87 | |||
| year precipitation days = 166.64 | |||
| unit snow days = 0 cm | |||
| Jan snow days = 7.6 | |||
| Feb snow days = 6.9 | |||
| Mar snow days = 2.8 | |||
| Apr snow days = 0.4 | |||
| May snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Jun snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Jul snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Aug snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Sep snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Oct snow days = 0.0 | |||
| Nov snow days = 1.3 | |||
| Dec snow days = 4.7 | |||
| year snow days = 23.7 | |||
| Jan humidity = 87.1 | |||
| Feb humidity = 83.3 | |||
| Mar humidity = 78.2 | |||
| Apr humidity = 70.8 | |||
| May humidity = 71.5 | |||
| Jun humidity = 72.9 | |||
| Jul humidity = 74.4 | |||
| Aug humidity = 75.9 | |||
| Sep humidity = 81.2 | |||
| Oct humidity = 85.5 | |||
| Nov humidity = 89.1 | |||
| Dec humidity = 89.0 | |||
| year humidity = 79.9 | |||
| Jan sun = 42.7 | |||
| Feb sun = 66.7 | |||
| Mar sun = 121.2 | |||
| Apr sun = 199.3 | |||
| May sun = 244.5 | |||
| Jun sun = 242.3 | |||
| Jul sun = 246.3 | |||
| Aug sun = 230.3 | |||
| Sep sun = 160.0 | |||
| Oct sun = 105.7 | |||
| Nov sun = 47.4 | |||
| Dec sun = 32.2 | |||
| year sun = 1738.6 | |||
| Jan uv = 0 | |||
| Feb uv = 1 | |||
| Mar uv = 2 | |||
| Apr uv = 4 | |||
| May uv = 5 | |||
| Jun uv = 6 | |||
| Jul uv = 6 | |||
| Aug uv = 5 | |||
| Sep uv = 4 | |||
| Oct uv = 2 | |||
| Nov uv = 1 | |||
| Dec uv = 0 | |||
| Jan dew point C = -1 | |||
| Feb dew point C = -1 | |||
| Mar dew point C = 0 | |||
| Apr dew point C = 3 | |||
| May dew point C = 8 | |||
| Jun dew point C = 11 | |||
| Jul dew point C = 13 | |||
| Aug dew point C = 13 | |||
| Sep dew point C = 10 | |||
| Oct dew point C = 7 | |||
| Nov dew point C = 3 | |||
| Dec dew point C = 0 | |||
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| title = Średnia maksymalna temperatura powietrza | |||
| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
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| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
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| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
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| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
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| title = Liczba dni z pokrywą śnieżna > 0 cm | |||
| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
| publisher = Institute of Meteorology and Water Management | |||
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| title = Średnia suma usłonecznienia (h) | |||
| work = Normy klimatyczne 1991-2020 | |||
| publisher = Institute of Meteorology and Water Management | |||
| language = pl | |||
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}}</ref> | |||
| source 2 = Meteomodel.pl (records, relative humidity 1991–2020),<ref name=recordhigh> | |||
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| url = https://meteomodel.pl/dane/srednie-miesieczne/?imgwid=353140205&par=tmax&max_empty=3 | |||
| title = Szczecin Absolutna temperatura maksymalna | |||
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| publisher = Meteomodel.pl | |||
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| url = https://meteomodel.pl/dane/srednie-miesieczne/?imgwid=353140205&par=rh&max_empty=3 | |||
| title = Szczecin Średnia wilgotność | |||
| date = 6 April 2018 | |||
| publisher = Meteomodel.pl | |||
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| access-date = 22 January 2022}}</ref> Weather Atlas (UV),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.weather-atlas.com/en/poland/szczecin-climate|title=Szczecin, Poland - Detailed climate information and monthly weather forecast|publisher=Yu Media Group|website=Weather Atlas|language=en|access-date=27 June 2019}}</ref> Time and Date (dewpoints, 1985-2015)<ref>{{cite web | |||
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}} | |||
<div style="width: 80%;"></div> | |||
{{Graph:Weather monthly history | |||
| table = Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/Szczecin.tab | |||
| title = Szczecin temperature | |||
}} | |||
=== Architecture and urban planning === | |||
]s on Śląska Street. Much of Szczecin's core, excluding the Old Town, features historic ] architecture.]] | |||
Szczecin's ] reflects trends popular in the last half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century: ] (historicist ]) and ]. In many areas built after 1945, especially in the city centre, which had been partly destroyed due to Allied bombing, ] is prevalent. | |||
The city has an abundance of green areas: ]s and avenues{{snds}}wide streets with trees planted in the island separating opposing traffic (where often ] tracks are laid); and ]s corresponding to the ]. Szczecin's city plan resembles that of ], mostly because Szczecin was remodelled in the 1880s according to a design by ], who had ] under ].<ref name="ncdc.eu">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.eu/single-post/2014/10/01/The-History-and-Culture-of-Szczecin|title=NCDC|access-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030201738/http://www.ncdc.eu/single-post/2014/10/01/The-History-and-Culture-of-Szczecin|archive-date=30 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> This pattern of street design is still used in Szczecin, as many recently built (or modified) city areas include roundabouts and avenues.<ref name="ncdc.eu"/> | |||
During the city's reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II, the communist authorities of Poland wanted the city's architecture to reflect an old Polish ] era. Since no buildings from that time existed, instead ] as well as ] buildings were picked as worthy of conservation.<ref name=musekamp23>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 23}}</ref> The motivation behind this decision was that Renaissance architecture was used by the ], which had ] and ] roots and was seen to be of Piast extraction by some historians.<ref name=musekamp31>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 31}}</ref> This view was manifested, for example, by erecting respective memorials, and the naming of streets and enterprises,<ref name=musekamp33>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 33}}</ref> while German traces were replaced by symbols of three main categories: Piasts, the martyrdom of Poles, and gratitude to the Soviet and Polish armies which had ended the ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wawrzyniak|first=Joanna|chapter=Die Westgebiete in der Ideologie des polnischen Kommunismus|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=298–319; p. 306}}</ref> | |||
The ruins of the ], initially renamed "Piast Palace", also played a central role in this concept<ref name=musekamp31/> and were reconstructed in Renaissance style, with all traces of later eras removed.<ref name=musekamp30>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 30}}</ref> In general, post-Renaissance buildings, especially those from the 19th and early 20th centuries, were deemed unworthy of conservation until the 1970s,<ref name=musekamp23/> and were in part used in the "Bricks for Warsaw" campaign (an effort to rebuild ] after it had been ] following the ]): with 38 million bricks, Szczecin became Poland's largest brick supplier.<ref name=musekamp28>{{cite book|last=Musekamp|first=Jan|chapter=Der Königsplatz in Stettin als Beispiel kultureller Aneignung nach 1945|title=Wiedergewonnene Geschichte. Zur Aneignung von Vergangenheit in den Zwischenräumen Mitteleuropas|volume=22|series=Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts Darmstadt|editor1-first=Peter Oliver|editor1-last=Loew|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Pletzing|editor3-first=Thomas|editor3-last=Serrier|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2006|isbn=3-447-05297-X|language=de|pages=19–35; p. 28}}</ref> The Old Town was rebuilt in the late 1990s, with new buildings, some of which were reconstructions of buildings destroyed in World War{{nbsp}}II. | |||
The Gothic monuments preserved to this day are parts of ], along with monuments of other Pomeranian cities, e.g. ], ], ] and ]. | |||
A portion of the ] in the forest of Puszcza Bukowa lies within Szczecin's boundaries. | |||
Szczecin contains 28 extant historic water pumps, known as ] or Berliners, which are a popular tourist attraction due to their colorful and intricate design.<ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=https://gs24.pl/zabytkowe-pompy-w-szczecinie-pieknieja/ar/4964706|title=Zabytkowe pompy w Szczecinie pięknieją|language=pl|website=gs24.pl|date=30 July 2014 |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> | |||
<gallery mode="packed"> | |||
File:Szczecin 05-2017 img06 Rynek.jpg|Façades in the rebuilt old town | |||
File:Pałac pod Globusem w Szczecinie - panoramio (cropped).jpg|Grumbkow's Palace | |||
File:1 Krzywoustego Street in Szczecin, April 2022.jpg|Tenement house at Vicory Square | |||
File:Velthusen Palace in Szczecin, 2018.jpg|Velthusen Palace | |||
File:Bogusława X Street in Szczecin, 2022.jpg|Bogusława X Street | |||
File:Szczecin plac Grunwaldzki dron (1).jpg|Grunwaldzki Square | |||
</gallery> | |||
=== Municipal administration === | |||
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The city is administratively divided into districts (Polish: ''dzielnica''), which are further divided into smaller neighbourhoods. The governing bodies of the latter serve the role of auxiliary local government bodies called ''] Councils'' (Polish: ''Rady Osiedla''). ]s for neighbourhood councils are held up to six months after each City Council election. Voter turnout is rather low (on 20{{nbsp}}May 2007 it ranged from 1.03% to 27.75% and was 3.78% on average). ]s are responsible mostly for small infrastructure like trees, park benches, ]s, etc. Other functions are mostly advisory. | |||
* ''Dzielnica Śródmieście'' (City Centre) includes: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]. | |||
* ''Dzielnica Północ'' (North) includes: ], ], ], ], ], ], ]. | |||
* ''Dzielnica Zachód'' (West) includes: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]. | |||
* ''Dzielnica Prawobrzeże'' (Right-Bank) includes: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]. | |||
=== Other historical neighbourhoods === | |||
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== Demographics == | |||
{{Historical populations | |||
| footnote = source <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.polskawliczbach.pl/Szczecin | title=Szczecin (Zachodniopomorskie) » mapy, nieruchomości, GUS, noclegi, szkoły, regon, atrakcje, kody pocztowe, wypadki drogowe, bezrobocie, wynagrodzenie, zarobki, tabele, edukacja, demografia }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Demographic and occupational structure and housing conditions of the urban population in 1978-1988|url=https://statlibr.stat.gov.pl/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/RQ1U9XAX48KJJDQ54QSAFQKQ6AK6GS.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics Poland - National Censuses|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/podgrup/temat/}}</ref> | |||
|1600|5000 | |||
|1720 |6081 | |||
|1740 |12300 | |||
|1812 |21255 | |||
|1840 |35300 | |||
|1852 |48028 | |||
|1861 |58487 | |||
|1872 |76000 | |||
|1885 |99543 | |||
|1905 |224119 | |||
|1939 |383000 | |||
|1946 |72948 | |||
|1950 |178907 | |||
|1960 |269318 | |||
|1970|338000 | |||
|1978|384948|1988|410331|2002|415399|2011|410131|2021|396168}} | |||
Since the 12th-century Christianization of the city, the majority of the population were ], then since the Renaissance era, up to the end of World War II, the vast majority of the population were ] Protestants, and since 1945, the majority are again Catholics. Historically, the number of inhabitants doubled from 6,081 in 1720,<ref name="Kratz">Kratz (1865), </ref> to 12,360 in 1740,<ref name="Kratz"/> and reached 21,255 in 1812, with only 476 Catholics and 5 Jews.<ref name="Kratz"/> By 1852 the population was 48,028,<ref name="Kratz"/> and 58,487 ten years later (1861), including 1,065 Catholics and 1,438 Jews.<ref name="Kratz"/> In 1885, it was 99,543,<ref name="verwaltungsgeschichte.de"/> and by 1905 it ballooned to 224,119 settlers (incl. the military), among them 209,152 Protestants, 8,635 Catholics and 3,010 Jews.<ref>''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon''. 6th edition, vol.{{nbsp}}19, Leipzig and Vienna 1909, p.{{nbsp}}9 (in German).</ref> In 1939, the number of inhabitants reached 268,421 persons according to German sources including 233,424 Protestants, 10,845 Catholics, and 1,102 Jews.<ref name="verwaltungsgeschichte.de"/><ref name="Brockhaus">''Der Große Brockhaus''. 15th edition, vol.{{nbsp}}18, Leipzig 1934, p.{{nbsp}}153 (in German)</ref> The current population of Szczecin by comparison was 406,427 in 2009. Following the ], Szczecin, much like most other major urban centers in Poland, saw an unprecedented influx of foreign nationals, an overwhelming majority of them Ukrainians; in July 2017 26 thousand of them were officially registered as living and working in Szczecin, with unofficial estimates going as high as 50 thousand, thus making up more than 10% of the city's inhabitants.<ref name="ukraine">{{Cite web|url=https://szczecin.onet.pl/ponad-26-tysiecy-ukraincow-mieszka-w-szczecinie-radny-chce-pelnomocnika/p3wfj5l|title=Ponad 26 tysięcy Ukraińców mieszka w Szczecinie. Radny chce pełnomocnika|last=Wirwicka|first=Alicja|date=18 July 2017|website=Onet.pl|access-date=11 April 2019}}</ref> | |||
;Number of inhabitants over the centuries | |||
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== Politics == | |||
]]] | |||
Recently{{When|date=February 2024}}, the city has favoured the centre right ]. Nearly two-thirds (64.54%) of votes cast in the second round of the ] went to the ]'s ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prezydent2010.pkw.gov.pl/PZT/EN/WYN/W/326201.htm |title=Election 2010 |publisher=Prezydent2010.pkw.gov.pl |access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref> and in ] the party won 46.75% of the vote in the ] with ] second garnering 21.66% and ] third with 11.8%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/poland/ |title=European Election Database (EED) |publisher=Nsd.uib.no |access-date=12 March 2013 |archive-date=24 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224123956/http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election_database/country/poland/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
=== Members of European Parliament (MEPs) from Szczecin === | |||
*], ], former MP in the Polish lower house of Parliament. | |||
*], ], economist, former Minister of Transport. | |||
*], ], engineer and manager, Minister of Maritime Economy. | |||
== Museums and galleries == | |||
]]] | |||
] | |||
*] (Polish ''Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie'') is the largest cultural institution in the ]. It has branches: | |||
** The Main Building of Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3 Street.<ref name="szczecin1">{{cite web|url=http://www.muzeum.szczecin.pl/|title=Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie}}</ref> | |||
** Szczecin's History Museum (Polish ''Muzeum Historii Szczecina'') in the ], Księcia Mściwoja II Street.<ref name="szczecin1"/> | |||
** The Old Art Gallery of the National Museum, Staromłyńska Street 27.<ref name="szczecin1"/> | |||
** The Museum of Contemporary Art, Staromłyńska 1 Street.<ref name="szczecin1"/> | |||
** The ] Exhibition in ]<ref name="szczecin1"/> | |||
** Planned investments: Dialogue Center Breakthroughs (Polish ''Centrum Dialogu Przełomy'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.przelomy.muzeum.szczecin.pl/|title=Centrum Dialogu PRZEŁOMY MUZEUM NARODOWE W SZCZECINIE}}</ref> and Maritime Science Centre (Polish ''Muzeum Morskie{{snds}}Centrum Nauki''). | |||
* Literature Museum (Polish ''Muzeum Literatury'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksiaznica.szczecin.pl/www/muzeum-literatury |title=Książnica Pomorska – Muzeum Literatury |publisher=Ksiaznica.szczecin.pl |access-date=2011-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901134318/http://ksiaznica.szczecin.pl/www/muzeum-literatury |archive-date=1 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
* EUREKA – the miracles of science.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://eureka.univ.szczecin.pl/ |title = eureka.univ.szczecin.pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031016083341/http://eureka.univ.szczecin.pl/ |archive-date=16 October 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* The Castle Museum (Polish ''Muzeum Zamkowe'') in the ]. | |||
* ] (Polish ''Muzeum Techniki i Komunikacji{{snds}}Zajezdnia Sztuki'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muzeumtechniki.eu/|title=Muzeum Techniki i Komunikacji – Zajezdnia Sztuki w Szczecinie}}</ref> | |||
== Arts and entertainment == | |||
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There are a few theatres and cinemas in Szczecin: | |||
* The Castle Cinema (Polish ''Kino Zamek'') | |||
* Pionier 1909 Cinema (Polish ''Kino Pionier 1909'') | |||
* Kana Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Kana'') | * Kana Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Kana'') | ||
* Modern Theatre (Polish ''Teatr |
* Modern Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Współczesny'') | ||
* Opera in the Castle (Polish ''Opera na Zamku'') | * Opera in the Castle (Polish ''Opera na Zamku'') | ||
* Polish Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Polski'') | * ] (Polish ''Teatr Polski w Szczecinie'') | ||
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* The Cellar by the Vault Cabaret (Polish ''Kabaret Piwnica przy Krypcie'') | ||
* The Crypt Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Krypta'') | |||
* The Pleciuga Puppetry Theatre<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bip.pleciuga.pl/index.php|title=Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Teatru Lalek Pleciuga w Szczecinie}}</ref> (Polish ''Teatr Lalek Pleciuga'') | |||
** The Cellar by the Vault Cabaret (Polish ''Kabaret Piwnica przy Krypcie'') | |||
* The Niema Theatre (Polish ''Teatr Niema'') | |||
* ] | |||
and many historic places as: | |||
* ] | |||
* (ruins of) The Quistorp's Tower (Polish ''Wieża Quistorpa'') | |||
* ] mound (at the intersection of Klonowica Street and Unii Lubelskiej Street) | |||
The statue, ] stands at the Grunwald Square at ]. | |||
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== Local cuisine == | ||
] | |||
The local cuisine in Szczecin was mostly shaped in the mid-20th century by people who settled in the city from other parts and regions of Poland, including the former ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://szczecin.eska.pl/poznaj-miasto/czym-wyroznia-sie-kuchnia-szczecinska-czy-znasz-te-przysmaki-top-9-galeria/150066|title=Czym wyróżnia się kuchnia szczecińska? Czy znasz te przysmaki? - szczecin.eskainfo.pl|access-date=24 March 2018|archive-date=9 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609192805/http://szczecin.eska.pl/poznaj-miasto/czym-wyroznia-sie-kuchnia-szczecinska-czy-znasz-te-przysmaki-top-9-galeria/150066|url-status=dead}}</ref> The most renowned dishes of the area are '']'' and '']''.<ref name="info-migrator.pl">{{cite web|url=http://www.szczecin.info-migrator.pl/informacje-o-miescie-szczecinie/kuchnia-szczecinska|title=Kuchnia szczecińska - Info Migrator Szczecin|access-date=24 March 2018|archive-date=24 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101805/http://www.szczecin.info-migrator.pl/informacje-o-miescie-szczecinie/kuchnia-szczecinska|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other local ]s and drinks include Szczecin gingerbread and beer. | |||
'']'' is a deep-fried yeast dough traditionally stuffed with minced meat (pork and beef) or vegetarian filling - cheese and mushrooms or cabbage and mushrooms, served in specialised bars as a fast food. The first bar serving ''pasztecik szczeciński'', Bar "Pasztecik", founded in 1969, is located on Wojska Polskiego Avenue 46 in the centre of Szczecin. ''Pasztecik szczeciński'' is usually served with clear red ].<ref name="info-migrator.pl"/> | |||
* ] (Polish ''Uniwersytet Szczeciński'') with 35.000 students, rector ] | |||
* ] (Polish ''Politechnika Szczecińska'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Pomorska Akademia Medyczna'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Akademia Rolnicza w Szczecinie'') | |||
* Branch of ] (Polish ''Akademia Muzyczna w Poznaniu'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Akademia Morska w Szczecinie'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Wyższa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej w Szczecinie'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Arcybiskupie Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Szczecinie'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Wyższa Szkoła Sztuki Użytkowej'') | |||
* ] (Polish ''Wyższa Szkoła Integracji Europejskiej'') | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
* ] | |||
'']'' is a paste made by mixing ] (around 50%) with ], ], ] concentrate, vegetable oil, ] and a mixture of spices including ] to put it on a sandwich. It is available in most grocery stores in the country.<ref name="info-migrator.pl"/> | |||
=== Scientific and regional organizations === | |||
] | |||
* ] (Polish ''Instytut Zachodnio-Pomorski'') | |||
Szczecin gingerbread (''pierniki szczecińskie'') is a traditional local ] glazed with ] or ] with decorations mostly referring either to the city's architecture or to maritime motifs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/rolnictwo/pierniki-szczecinskie|title=Pierniki szczecińskie|website=Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl|access-date=15 May 2021|language=pl}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Polish ''Szczecińskie Towarzystwo Naukowe'') | |||
Szczecin beer (''piwo szczecińskie'') includes various types of traditional local ]: ], amber, and ].<ref name=ps>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/rolnictwo/piwo-szczecinskie|title=Piwo szczecińskie|website=Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl|access-date=15 May 2021|language=pl}}</ref> The city's brewing traditions go back over a thousand years.<ref name=ps/> | |||
== Sports == | |||
The word "''szczeciński''" or "''szczecińskie''" in the names of the products is an adjective from the name of the city of Szczecin, the place of its origin. | |||
There are many popular professional sports team in Szczecin area. The most popular sport today is probably ] (thanks to ] just promoted to play in the 1st league in season 2004/2005). Amateur sports are played by thousands of Szczecin citizens and also in schools of all levels (elementary, secondary, university). | |||
== Sports == | |||
] | |||
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There are many popular ] teams in Szczecin area. The most popular sport today is probably ] thanks to ]. ] are played by thousands of Szczecin citizens and also in schools of all levels (elementary, secondary, university). | |||
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|+ Professional sports teams | |||
|- | |||
!Club | |||
!Sport | |||
!League | |||
!Trophies | |||
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|] | |||
|Football (men's) | |||
|] | |||
|0 | |||
|- | |||
|] | |||
|Football (women's) | |||
|] | |||
|1 Polish Championship (]) | |||
|- | |||
|] | |||
|] (men's) | |||
|] | |||
|1 Polish Championship (]) | |||
|- | |||
|] | |||
|Football (men's) | |||
|] | |||
|0 | |||
|- | |||
|] | |||
|] (women's) | |||
|Liga Centralna | |||
|3 Polish Championships (1983, 1986, 1991)<br>4 Polish Cups (1971, 1980, 1986, 1992) | |||
|- | |||
|] | |||
|] (men's) | |||
|Liga Centralna | |||
|0 | |||
|} | |||
Other notable teams: | |||
* ] - football team (2nd league 2003/2004, promoted to 1st league in 2004/2005), | |||
* |
*] – football team, which competes in the lower divisions, but played in the top division in the past, and one of the most successful Polish ] clubs | ||
* |
*KS Stal Szczecin – 15 youth and junior teams, 1{{nbsp}}senior, being in 4th regional league in the 2008/2009 season | ||
* |
*KS Piast Szczecin – women's volleyball team, (Seria{{nbsp}}A in the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons) | ||
*] - women's handball team | |||
* ] - women's ] team playing in ]: 9th place in 2003/2004 season. | |||
*OSoT Szczecin - trains Polish and foreign ] | |||
*SEJK Pogoń Szczecin - ] team | |||
*Wicher Warszewo – futsal team playing in Środowiskowa Liga Futsalu (Futsal League){{snds}}two regional Futsal League: 2nd place in 2006/2007 season{{snds}}promotion in the first regional Futsal League | |||
*Husaria Szczecin – ] team playing in ] | |||
*Szczecin Dukes – senior ] team | |||
As can be seen above, many teams in Szczecin are named after ], a team from the ]. | |||
=== Amateur leagues === | === Amateur leagues === | ||
*Halowa Amatorska Liga Pilkarska – Hall Amateur Football League<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.halp.com.pl/|title=HALP Szczecin|access-date=20 September 2011|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201152137/http://www.halp.com.pl/|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
*Halowa Liga Pilki Noznej – Hall Football League | |||
*Szczecinska Liga Amatorskiej Koszykowki – Szczecin Amateur Basketball League<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040623211410/http://www.infoludek.pl/slak |date=23 June 2004 }}</ref> | |||
*Szczecinska Amatorska Liga Pilki Siatkowej – Szczecin Amateur Volleyball League<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salps.home.pl/|title=salps.home.pl|work=home.pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028002758/http://www.salps.home.pl/|archive-date=28 October 2007}}</ref> – women league, 1st, 2nd and 3rd men league | |||
*Elita Professional Sport – Elita Hall Football League<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210193823/https://www.futsal.szczecina.pl/ |date=10 February 2008 }}</ref> – 1st and 2nd league, futsal cup | |||
*Kaskada Szczecin Rugby Club – club rugby<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaskada.szczecin.pl/|title=Drewno najlepszy naturalny surowiec|access-date=20 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929184118/http://www.kaskada.szczecin.pl/|archive-date=29 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> – 7 and 15 league, rugby cup | |||
==== Cyclic events ==== | |||
Every year in September the men's tennis tournament ] is held in Szczecin. In August, a marathon is organized in Szczecin. | |||
== Economy and transport == | |||
]]] | |||
] tram in Kościuszki Square]] | |||
] links Szczecin with its airport (at ]) and Baltic ferry terminal (in ]), as well as with the major cities of Western Poland to the south – ] and ].]] | |||
=== Economy === | |||
Szczecin is a center of the maritime economy; it employs 13279 people. The ] serves shipowners from all over the world and is the home port of two shipping companies: ] and Euroafrica. In addition, other maritime-related companies are headquartered here. | |||
In 2013, a subzone of the Szczecin-Kostrzyn-Slubice Special Economic Zone was established.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 13 sierpnia 2013 r. zmieniające rozporządzenie w sprawie kostrzyńsko-słubickiej specjalnej strefy ekonomicznej |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20130001095 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl}}</ref> | |||
As of September 2016, the number of registered unemployed in Szczecin included about 8,400 residents, representing an unemployment rate of 5.0% to the economically active population.<ref>{{Cite web |last=GUS |title=Liczba bezrobotnych zarejestrowanych oraz stopa bezrobocia według województw, podregionów i powiatów. Stan w końcu września 2016 r. |url=https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/rynek-pracy/bezrobocie-rejestrowane/liczba-bezrobotnych-zarejestrowanych-oraz-stopa-bezrobocia-wedlug-wojewodztw-podregionow-i-powiatow-stan-w-koncu-wrzesnia-2016-r-,2,50.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=stat.gov.pl |language=pl}}</ref> | |||
The average employee salary in October 2012 was PLN 3807.73, with the number of employed workers in Szczecin - 90,754 people. According to data from the District Labor Office in Szczecin, effective 1 January 2023, the minimum wage is PLN 3490, while the average salary of residents of the capital of West Pomerania is at PLN 6733.49.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Praca Szczecin - oferty pracy w Szczecinie |url=https://www.praca.pl/szczecin.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Portal Praca.pl |language=pl}}</ref> | |||
In 2009, the average gross monthly salary in the enterprise sector in Szczecin was PLN 3439.94. | |||
Szczecin's ] is PLN 20.255 billion, which is 1/3 of the GDP of the entire province. There are 49497 zlotys per capita, about 40% more than the result for the province. | |||
=== Air === | |||
Szczecin is served by ], which is {{convert|47|km|0|abbr=off}} northeast of central Szczecin. There is also a grass airstrip within city limits, the ]. | |||
=== Trams === | |||
{{Main|Trams in Szczecin}} | |||
Szczecin has a tram network comprising 12 tram lines serving 95 tram stops and measuring {{convert|110.77|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} in length. Tram transport is operated by the ] (TS). | |||
Szczecin's first horse tram opened in 1879, running from Gałczyńskiego Square to Staszica Street. In 1896, the first line using electric traction was opened. By 1900, the horse trams had been entirely replaced by electric trams. | |||
=== Buses === | |||
{{Main|Bus transport in Szczecin}} | |||
Szczecin has a bus network of 70 bus routes. Bus transport is operated by 4{{nbsp}}companies: SPA Dąbie, SPA Klonowica, SPPK and ] Szczecin. | |||
Of all bus routes, 50 lines are designated as normal. At nighttime, Szczecin is served by a night bus network of 16 routes. There are also 7{{nbsp}}express bus lines, which do not serve all stops on their route. | |||
* ] - Hall Amateur Fotball League | |||
* ]- Hall Fotball League | |||
* ] - Szczecin Ameteur Basketball League | |||
* ] - Szczecin Ameteur Voleyball League - women league, 1st, 2nd and 3rd men league | |||
* ] - Elita Hall Fotball League - 1st and 2nd league, futsal cup | |||
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=== Roads === | ||
The recently upgraded ] motorway serves as the southern bypass of the city, and connects to the German ] autobahn (portions of which are currently undergoing upgrade), from where one can reach Berlin in about 90 minutes (about {{convert|150|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}). Other important highways are the ], linking Szczecin with the more southern cities of ], ] and ], and the ], connecting Szczecin with ] (and eventually ] once the easternmost section is completed). Through intersections with other highways, Szczecin has convenient highway connections with a number of other major Polish cities, such as ], ], ], ], ] and ]. Also planned is the construction of the ] highway to connect the city with ], ], ] and Warsaw. | |||
=== Rail === | |||
* | |||
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The main railway station{{snds}}]{{snds}}is situated in the city centre (Kolumba Street). Szczecin has good railway connections with ] and the rest of Poland, e.g., ], ], ], ], ] and ]. Szczecin is also connected with Germany (] (]) and through ] to ] and ]), but only by two single-track, non-electrified lines. Because of this, the ] is much slower and less convenient than one{{who|date=March 2021}} would expect between two European cities of that size and proximity. | |||
=== Port === | |||
The ] is the third largest port in Poland and handles over 32{{nbsp}}million tons of cargo annually.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://port.szczecin.pl/en/ports/history-of-ports/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=port.szczecin.pl}}</ref> This is a harbour of the ] and the ] river. | |||
== Education and science == | |||
], president of ] (1923–1924), at the General Władysław Anders Square]] | |||
* ] (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Szczeciński''), with 35,000 students; rector: ] | |||
* | |||
* ] ({{langx|pl|Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny}}) | |||
* | |||
* ] (Polish: ''Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny'') | |||
* | |||
* ] (Polish: ''Akademia Sztuki'') | |||
* | |||
* ] (Polish: ''Akademia Morska w Szczecinie'') | |||
* ] – WSB Merito University in Poznań,<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301124949/http://www.wsb.pl/english/about-wsb-group/wsb-poznan |date=1 March 2016 }} – WSB Universities</ref> departments of Economics | |||
* The West Pomeranian Business School (Polish: ''Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu'') | |||
* Higher School of Public Administration in Szczecin (Polish: ''Wyższa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej w Szczecinie'') | |||
* High Theological Seminary in Szczecin (Polish: ''Arcybiskupie Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Szczecinie'') | |||
* Higher School of Applied Arts (Polish: ''Wyższa Szkoła Sztuki Użytkowej'') | |||
* Academy of European Integration (Polish: ''Wyższa Szkoła Integracji Europejskiej'') | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Turystyczna'' | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna'' TWP | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych'' | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Techniczno-Ekonomiczna'' | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa'' - Collegium Balticum | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa'' "OECONOMICUS" PTE | |||
*''Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania'' | |||
*] | |||
<gallery mode="packed" caption="Universities in Szczecin"> | |||
File:Szczecin akademia medyczna.jpg|] | |||
File:37 Sikorskiego Street in Szczecin, 2022.jpg|] | |||
File:Szczecin Akademia Morska dron (1).jpg|] | |||
File:Faculty of Humanities, University od Szczecin, Piastów Avenue, January 2023.jpg|], Faculty of Humanities | |||
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=== Scientific and regional organisations === | |||
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* ''Encyclopedia of Szczecin''. Vol. I, A–O. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999. {{ISBN|83-87341-45-2}} (pl). | |||
* ''Encyclopedia of Szczecin''. Vol. II, P–Ż. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 2000. {{ISBN|83-7241-089-5}} (pl). | |||
* Jan M. Piskorski, Bogdan Wachowiak, Edward Włodarczyk, ''A short history of Szczecin'', Poznań, 2002. {{ISBN|83-7063-332-3}} (pl). | |||
* ]. ''Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia 1806''. London: Lionel Leventhal Ltd., 1993 (1907). {{ISBN|1-85367-145-2}}. | |||
* {{in lang|de}} Jan Musekamp: ''Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin{{snds}}Metamorphosen einer Stadt von 1945 bis 2001'' (Between Stettin and Szczecin{{snds}}a town's metamorphoses from 1945 to 2005). Wiesbaden, 2010 (), there is also a Polish edition ''Między Stettinem a Szczecinem. Metamorfoza miasta od 1945 do 2005''. | |||
* {{in lang|de}} Martin Wehrmann: ''Geschichte der Stadt Stettin''. Stettin, 1911 (reprinted in 1993 by Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg. {{ISBN|3-89350-119-3}}). | |||
* {{in lang|de}} W. H. Meyer: ''Stettin in alter und neuer Zeit'' (Stettin in ancient and modern times). Stettin, 1887. | |||
* {{in lang|de}} Gustav Kratz: ''Die Städte der Provinz Pommern{{snds}}Abriss ihrer Geschichte, zumeist nach Urkunden'' (The towns of the Province of Pomerania{{snds}}Sketch of their history, mostly according to historical records). Berlin, 1865 (reprinted in 2010 by ], U.S.A., {{ISBN|1-161-12969-3}}), pp.{{nbsp}}376–412 (). | |||
* {{in lang|de}} Fr. Thiede: ''Chronik der Stadt Stettin{{snds}}Bearbeitet nach Urkunden und bewährtesten historischen Nachrichten'' (Chronicle of the town of Stettin{{snds}}Worked out according to documents and reliable historical records). Stettin, 1849 (). | |||
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Latest revision as of 15:57, 6 January 2025
Capital city of West Pomerania, Poland "Stettin" redirects here. For other uses, see Stettin (disambiguation) and Szczecin (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Szechuan.Place in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Szczecin Stettin | |
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Chrobry Embankment—Natl. Museum, Reg. OfficeHanza TowerOld Town HallSzczecin PhilharmonicRed Town HallArt AcademyOder River, with the Cathedral in the distance | |
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Motto(s): "Szczecin jest otwarty" ("Szczecin is open") | |
Szczecin | |
Coordinates: 53°25′57″N 14°32′53″E / 53.43250°N 14.54806°E / 53.43250; 14.54806 | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | West Pomeranian |
County | City county |
Established | 8th century |
City rights | 1243 |
Government | |
• City mayor | Piotr Krzystek (OKS) |
Area | |
• City | 301 km (116 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2,795 km (1,079 sq mi) |
Population | |
• City | 395,513 (7th) |
• Density | 1,340/km (3,500/sq mi) |
• Metro | 777,000 |
• Metro density | 278/km (720/sq mi) |
Demonym(s) | szczecinianin (male) szczecinianka (female) (pl) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | PL-70-017 to 71–871 |
Area code | +48 91 |
Car plates | ZS |
Climate | Cfb |
Primary airport | Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport |
Website | www |
Szczecin (UK: /ˈʃtʃɛtʃɪn/ SHCHETCH-in, US: /-tʃiːn/ -een, Polish: [ˈʂt͡ʂɛt͡ɕin] ; German: Stettin [ʃtɛˈtiːn] ; Swedish: Stettin [stɛˈtiːn]; Latin: Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of 31 December 2022, the population was 391,566.
Szczecin is located on the Oder River, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Dąbie Lake, on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. It is also surrounded by dense forests, shrubland and heaths, chiefly the Wkrzańska Heath shared with Germany (Ueckermünde) and the Szczecin Landscape Park. Szczecin is adjacent to the town of Police and is the urban centre of the Szczecin agglomeration, an extended metropolitan area that includes communities in the German states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The city's recorded history dates back over 1,300 years, when diverse tribes and peoples such as the Vikings and Lechites erected strongholds in the vicinity. It subsequently served as the seat of the Dukes of Pomerania and the House of Griffin. In the course of the millennium, Szczecin under different names was part of Piast Poland, Denmark, Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Germany and modern-day Poland. The city's architecture and cultural heritage reflects these periods, with excellent examples of Brick Gothic, Gründerzeit, Neoclassical, socialist realist and contemporary styles. The planned urban landscape was based on the Orion constellation, with avenues, roundabouts and extensive parkland. The city's chief landmarks include the Szczecin Cathedral, the Ducal Castle, the National Museum and the Szczecin Philharmonic.
Szczecin is the administrative and industrial centre of West Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the site of the University of Szczecin, Pomeranian Medical University, Maritime University, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin Art Academy, and the see of the Szczecin-Kamień Catholic Archdiocese. From 1999 onwards, Szczecin has served as the site of the headquarters of NATO's Multinational Corps Northeast. The city was a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2016.
Name and etymology
Szczecin and Stettin are the Polish and German equivalents of the same name, which is of Proto-Slavic origin, though the exact etymology is the subject of ongoing research. In her Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names of Poland, Maria Malec lists 11 theories regarding the origin of the name, including derivations from either: an Old Slavic word for 'hill peak' (Polish: szczyt), the plant fuller's teasel (Polish: szczeć), or the personal name Szczota.
Other medieval names for the town are Burstaborg (in the Knytlinga saga) and Burstenburgh (in the Annals of Waldemar). These names, which literally mean 'brush burgh', are likely derived from the translation of the city's Slavic name (assuming derivation No. 2 for that).
History
Main article: History of Szczecin For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Szczecin.Middle Ages
The recorded history of Szczecin began in the eighth century, when Vikings and West Slavs settled in Pomerania. The West Slavs, or Lechites, erected a new stronghold on the site of the modern castle. Since the 9th century, the stronghold was fortified and expanded toward the Oder bank. Mieszko I of Poland took control of Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages and the region became part of Poland in the 10th century. However, already Mieszko II Lambert (1025 ~ 1034) effectively lost control over the area and had to accept German suzerainty over the area of the Oder lagoon. Subsequent Polish rulers, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Liutician federation all aimed to control the territory.
After the decline of the neighbouring regional centre Wolin in the 12th century, the city became one of the more important and powerful seaports of the Baltic Sea.
In a campaign in the winter of 1121–1122, Bolesław III Wrymouth, the Duke of Poland, gained control of the region, including the city of Szczecin and its stronghold. The Polish ruler initiated Christianization, entrusting this task to Otto of Bamberg, and the inhabitants were Christianised by two missions of Otto in 1124 and 1128. At this time, the first Christian church of Saints Peter and Paul was erected. The Poles' minted coins were commonly used in trade in this period. The population of the city at that time is estimated to be at around 5,000–9,000 people.
Polish rule ended with Boleslaw's death in 1138. During the Wendish Crusade in 1147, a contingent led by the German margrave Albert the Bear, an enemy of Slavic presence in the region, papal legate, bishop Anselm of Havelberg and Konrad of Meissen besieged the town. There, a Polish contingent supplied by Mieszko III the Old joined the crusaders. However, the citizens had placed crosses around the fortifications, indicating they already had been Christianised. Duke Ratibor I of Pomerania, negotiated the disbanding of the crusading forces.
After the Battle of Verchen in 1164, Szczecin duke Bogusław I, Duke of Pomerania became a vassal of the Duchy of Saxony's Henry the Lion. In 1173, Szczecin castellan Wartislaw II, could not resist a Danish attack and became vassal of Denmark. In 1181, Bogusław became a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1185, Bogusław again became a Danish vassal. Despite falling under foreign suzerainty, local dukes maintained close ties with the fragmented Polish realm, and future Polish monarch Władysław III Spindleshanks stayed at the local court of Duke Bogusław I in 1186, on behalf of his father, Duke of Greater Poland Mieszko III the Old, who also periodically was the High Duke of Poland. Following a conflict between his heirs and Canute VI of Denmark, the settlement was destroyed in 1189, but the fortress was reconstructed and manned with a Danish force in 1190. While the empire restored its superiority over the Duchy of Pomerania in the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227, Szczecin was one of two bridgeheads remaining under Danish control (until 1235; Wolgast until 1241/43 or 1250).
In the second half of the 12th century, a group of German tradesmen ("multus populus Teutonicorum" from various parts of the Holy Roman Empire) settled in the city around St. Jacob's Church, which was donated in 1180 by Beringer, a trader from Bamberg, and consecrated in 1187. Hohenkrug (now in Szczecin Struga) was the first village in the Duchy of Pomerania that was clearly recorded as German (villa teutonicorum) in 1173. Ostsiedlung accelerated in Pomerania during the 13th century. Duke Barnim I of Pomerania granted Szczecin a local government charter in 1237, separating the German settlement from the Slavic community settled around the St. Nicholas Church in the neighbourhood of Kessin (Polish: Chyzin). In the charter, the Slavs were put under Germanic jurisdiction.
When Barnim granted Szczecin Magdeburg rights in 1243, part of the Slavic settlement was reconstructed. The duke had to promise to level the burgh in 1249. Most Slavic inhabitants were resettled to two new suburbs north and south of the town.
In 1249, Barnim I also granted equivalent Magdeburg town privileges to the town of Damm (also known as Altdamm) on the eastern bank of the Oder. Damm merged with neighbouring Szczecin on 15 October 1939 and is now the Dąbie neighbourhood. This town had been built on the site of a former Pomeranian burg, "Vadam" or "Dambe", which Boleslaw had destroyed during his 1121 campaign.
On 2 December 1261, Barnim I allowed Jewish settlement in Szczecin in accordance with the Magdeburg law, in a privilege renewed in 1308 and 1371. The Jewish Jordan family was granted citizenship in 1325, but none of the 22 Jews allowed to settle in the duchy in 1481 lived in the city, and in 1492, all Jews in the duchy were ordered to convert to Christianity or leave – this order remained effective throughout the rest of the Griffin era.
In 1273, in Szczecin duke of Poznań and future King of Poland Przemysł II married princess Ludgarda, granddaughter of Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania, in order to strengthen the alliance between the two rulers.
Szczecin was part of the federation of Wendish towns, a predecessor of the Hanseatic League, in 1283. The city prospered due to its participation in the Baltic Sea trade, primarily with herring, grain, and timber; craftsmanship also prospered, and more than forty guilds were established in the city. The far-reaching autonomy granted by the House of Griffins was in part reduced when the dukes reclaimed Stettin as their main residence in the late 15th century. The anti-Slavic policies of German merchants and craftsmen intensified in this period, resulting in measures such as bans on people of Slavic descent joining craft guilds, a doubling of customs tax for Slavic merchants, and bans against public usage of their native language. The more prosperous Slavic citizens were forcibly stripped of their possessions, which were then handed over to Germans. In 1514, the guild of tailors added a Wendenparagraph to its statutes, banning Slavs.
While not as heavily affected by medieval witchhunts as other regions of the empire, there are reports of the burning of three women and one man convicted of witchcraft in 1538.
In 1570, during the reign of John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania, a congress was held at Stettin ending the Northern Seven Years' War. During the war, Stettin had tended to side with Denmark, while Stralsund tended toward Sweden – as a whole, however, the Duchy of Pomerania tried to maintain neutrality. Nevertheless, a Landtag that had met in Stettin in 1563 introduced a sixfold rise in real estate taxes to finance the raising of a mercenary army for the duchy's defence. Johann Friedrich also succeeded in elevating Stettin to one of only three places allowed to coin money in the Upper Saxon Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, the other two places being Leipzig and Berlin. Bogislaw XIV, who resided in Stettin beginning in 1620, became the sole ruler and Griffin duke when Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania died in 1625. Before the Thirty Years' War reached Pomerania, the city, as well as the entire duchy, declined economically due to the decrease in importance of the Hanseatic League and a conflict between Stettin and Frankfurt an der Oder.
17th to 18th centuries
Following the Treaty of Stettin of 1630, the town (along with most of Pomerania) was allied to and occupied by the Swedish Empire, which managed to keep the western parts of Pomerania after the death of Bogislaw XIV in 1637. From the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Stettin became the Capital of Swedish Pomerania. Stettin was turned into a major Swedish fortress, which was repeatedly besieged in subsequent wars. The next Treaty of Stettin (1653) did not change this, but due to the downfall of the Swedish Empire after Charles XII, the city went to Prussia in 1720. Instead Stralsund became capital of the last remaining parts of Swedish Pomerania 1720–1815.
The city was on the path of Polish forces led by Hetman Stefan Czarniecki moving from Denmark during the Second Northern War. Czarniecki, who led his forces to the city, is today mentioned in the Polish anthem, and numerous locations in the city honour his name.
Wars inhibited the city's economic prosperity, which had undergone a deep crisis during the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and was further impeded by the new Swedish-Brandenburg-Prussian frontier, cutting Stettin off from its traditional Farther Pomeranian hinterland. Due to a Plague during the Great Northern War, the city's population dropped from 6,000 people in 1709 to 4,000 in 1711. In 1720, after the Great Northern War, Sweden was forced to cede the city to King Frederick William I of Prussia. Stettin was made the capital city of the Prussian Pomeranian province, since 1815 reorganised as the Province of Pomerania. In 1816, the city had 26,000 inhabitants.
The Prussian administration deprived the city of its right to administrative autonomy, abolished guild privileges as well as its status as a staple town, and subsidised manufacturers. Also, colonists were settled in the city, primarily French Huguenots. The French established a prosperous community, greatly contributed to the city's economic revival, and were treated with reluctance by the German burghers and city authorities.
19th to 20th centuries
In October 1806, during the War of the Fourth Coalition, believing that he was facing a much larger force, and after receiving a threat of harsh treatment of the city, the Prussian commander Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg agreed to surrender the city to the French led by General Lasalle. In fact, Lasalle had only 800 men against von Romberg's 5,300 men. In March 1809 Romberg was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for giving up Stettin without a fight. In 1809, also Polish troops were stationed in the city, while the French remained until 1813.
From 1683 to 1812, one Jew was permitted to reside in Stettin, and an additional Jew was allowed to spend a night in the city in case of "urgent business". These permissions were repeatedly withdrawn between 1691 and 1716, also between 1726 and 1730 although else the Swedish regulation was continued by the Prussian administration. Only after the Prussian Edict of Emancipation of 11 March 1812, which granted Prussian citizenship to all Jews living in the kingdom, did a Jewish community emerge in Stettin, with the first Jews settling in the town in 1814. Construction of a synagogue started in 1834; the community also owned a religious and a secular school, an orphanage since 1855, and a retirement home since 1893. The Jewish community had between 1,000 and 1,200 members by 1873 and between 2,800 and 3,000 members by 1927–28. These numbers dropped to 2,701 in 1930 and to 2,322 in late 1934.
After the Franco Prussian war of 1870–1871, 1,700 French POWs were imprisoned there in deplorable conditions, resulting in the deaths of 600; after the Second World War monuments in their memory were built by the Polish authorities.
Until 1873, Stettin remained a fortress. When part of the defensive structures were levelled, a new neighbourhood, Neustadt ("New Town") as well as water pipes, sewerage and drainage, and gas works were built to meet the demands of the growing population.
Stettin developed into a major Prussian port and became part of the German Empire in 1871. While most of the province retained its agrarian character, Stettin was industrialised, and its population rose from 27,000 in 1813 to 210,000 in 1900 and 255,500 in 1925. Major industries that flourished in Stettin from 1840 were shipbuilding, chemical and food industries, and machinery construction. Starting in 1843, Stettin became connected to the major German and Pomeranian cities by railways, and the water connection to the Bay of Pomerania was enhanced by the construction of the Kaiserfahrt (now Piast) canal. The city was also a scientific centre; for example, it was home to the Entomological Society of Stettin.
On 20 October 1890, some of the city's Poles created the "Society of Polish-Catholic Workers" in the city, one of the first Polish organisations. In 1897, the city's ship works began the construction of the pre-dreadnought battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. In 1914, before World War I, the Polish community in the city numbered over 3,000 people, contributing about 2% of the population. These were primarily industrial workers and their families who came from the Poznań (Posen) area and a few local wealthy industrialists and merchants. Among them was Kazimierz Pruszak, director of the Gollnow industrial works and a Polish patriot, who predicted the eventual "return" of Szczecin to Poland.
During the interwar period, Stettin was Weimar Germany's largest port on the Baltic Sea, and her third-largest port after Hamburg and Bremen. Cars of the Stoewer automobile company were produced in Stettin from 1899 to 1945. By 1939, the Reichsautobahn Berlin–Stettin was completed.
Stettin played a major role as an entrepôt in the development of the Scottish herring trade with the Continent, peaking at an annual export of more than 400,000 barrels in 1885, 1894 and 1898. Trade flourished until the outbreak of the First World War and resumed on a reduced scale during the years between the wars.
In the March 1933 German elections to the Reichstag, the Nazis and German nationalists from the German National People's Party (or DNVP) won most of the votes in the city, together winning 98,626 of 165,331 votes (59.3%), with the NSDAP getting 79,729 (47.9%) and the DNVP 18,897 (11.4%).
In 1935, the Wehrmacht made Stettin the headquarters for Wehrkreis II, which controlled the military units in all of Mecklenburg and Pomerania. It was also the area headquarters for units stationed at Stettin I and II; Swinemünde (Świnoujście); Greifswald; and Stralsund.
In the interwar period, the Polish minority numbered 2,000 people, less than 1% of the city's population at that time. A number of Poles were members of the Union of Poles in Germany (ZPN), which was active in the city from 1924. A Polish consulate was located in the city between 1925 and 1939. On the initiative of the consulate and ZPN activist Maksymilian Golisz, a number of Polish institutions were established, e.g., a Polish Scout team and a Polish school. German historian Musekamp writes, "however, only very few Poles were active in these institutions, which for the most part were headed by employees of the consulate." The withdrawal of the consulate from these institutions led to a general decline of these activities, which were in part upheld by Golisz and Aleksander Omieczyński. Intensified repressions by the Nazis, who exaggerated the Polish activities to propagate an infiltration, led to the closing of the school. In 1938, the head of Szczecin's Union of Poles unit, Stanisław Borkowski, was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany. In 1939, all Polish organisations in Stettin were disbanded by the German authorities. Golisz and Omieczyński were murdered during the war. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, a street was named after Golisz. According to German historian Jan Musekamp, the activities of the Polish pre-war organizations were exaggerated after World War II for propaganda purposes.
World War II
During World War II, Stettin was the base for the German 2nd Motorised Infantry Division, which cut across the Polish Corridor and was later used in 1940 as an embarkation point for Operation Weserübung, Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway.
On 15 October 1939, neighbouring municipalities were joined to Stettin, creating Groß-Stettin, with about 380,000 inhabitants, in 1940. The city had become the third-largest German city by area, after Berlin and Hamburg.
As the war started, the number of non-Germans in the city increased as slave workers were brought in. The first transports came in 1939 from Bydgoszcz, Toruń and Łódź. They were mainly used in a synthetic silk factory near Stettin. The next wave of slave workers was brought in 1940, in addition to PoWs who were used for work in the agricultural industry. According to German police reports from 1940, 15,000 Polish slave workers lived within the city.
During the war, 135 forced labour camps for slave workers were established in the city. Most of the 25,000 slave workers were Poles, but Czechs, Italians, Frenchmen and Belgians, as well as Dutch citizens, were also enslaved in the camps. A Nazi prison was also operated in the city, with forced labour subcamps in the region.
In February 1940, the Jews of Stettin were deported to the Lublin reservation. International press reports emerged, describing how the Nazis forced Jews, regardless of age, condition and gender, to sign away all property and loaded them onto trains headed to the camp, escorted by members of the SA and SS. Due to publicity given to the event, German institutions ordered such future actions to be made in a way unlikely to attract public notice. The action was the first deportation of Jews from prewar territory in Nazi Germany.
Allied air raids in 1944 and heavy fighting between the German and Soviet armies destroyed 65% of Stettin's buildings and almost all of the city centre, the seaport, and local industries. Polish Home Army intelligence assisted in pinpointing targets for Allied bombing in the area of Stettin. The city itself was covered by the Home Army's "Bałtyk" structure, and Polish resistance infiltrated Stettin's naval yards. Other activities of the resistance consisted of smuggling people to Sweden.
The Soviet Red Army captured the city on 26 April 1945. While the majority of the almost 400,000 inhabitants had left the city, between 6,000 and 20,000 inhabitants remained in late April.
On 28 April 1945 Polish authorities tried to gain control, but in the following month, the Polish administration was twice forced to leave. The reason for this was, according to Polish sources, that the Western Allies raised protest against the Soviet and Polish policy of creating a fait-accomplit in Eastern Germany. Finally the permanent handover occurred on 5 July 1945. In the meantime, part of the German population had returned, believing it might become part of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. The Soviet authorities had already appointed the German Communists Erich Spiegel and Erich Wiesner as mayors. Stettin is located mostly west of the Oder River, which was expected to become Poland's new western border, placing Stettin in East Germany. This would have been in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement between the victorious Allied powers, which envisaged the new border to be in "a line running from the Baltic Sea immediately west of Swinemünde, and thence along the Oder River". Because of the returnees, the German population of the town swelled to 84,000. The mortality rate was at 20%, primarily due to starvation. However, Stettin and the mouth of the Oder River became Polish on 5 July 1945, as had been decided in a treaty signed on 26 July 1944 between the Soviet Union and the Soviet-controlled Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) (also known as "the Lublin Poles", as contrasted with the London-based Polish government-in-exile). On 4 October 1945, the decisive land border of Poland was established west of the 1945 line, and the city was renamed to its historic Polish name Szczecin, but the area excluded the Police area, the Oder River itself and the port of Szczecin, which remained under Soviet administration. The Oder River was handed over to Polish administration in September 1946, followed by the port between February 1946 and May 1954.
Post-war
While in 1945 the number of pre-war inhabitants dropped to 57,215 on 31 October 1945, the systematic expulsion of Germans started on 22 February 1946 and continued until late 1947, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. In December 1946 about 17,000 German inhabitants remained, while the number of Poles living in the city reached 100,000. To ease the tensions between settlers from different regions, and help overcome fear caused by the continued presence of the Soviet troops, a special event was organised in April 1946 with 50,000 visitors in the partly destroyed city centre. Settlers from Central Poland made up about 70% of Szczecin's new population. In addition to Poles, Ukrainians from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union settled there. Also Poles repatriated from Harbin, China and Greeks, refugees of the Greek Civil War, settled in Szczecin in the following years. In 1945 and 1946, the city was the starting point of the northern route used by the Jewish underground organisation Brichah to channel Jewish displaced persons from Central and Eastern Europe to the American occupation zone.
Szczecin was rebuilt, and the city's industry was expanded. At the same time, Szczecin became a major Polish industrial centre and an important seaport (particularly for Silesian coal) for Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Cultural expansion was accompanied by a campaign resulting in the "removal of all German traces". In 1946, Winston Churchill prominently mentioned the city in his Iron Curtain speech: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".
The city witnessed anti-communist revolts in 1956, 1970 and 1980. On 30 August 1980, first of the four August Agreements, which led to the first legalisation of the trade union Solidarity, was signed in Szczecin. The introduction of martial law in December 1981 met with a strike by the dockworkers of Szczecin shipyard, joined by other factories and workplaces in a general strike. All these were suppressed by the authorities. Pope John Paul II visited the city on 11 June 1987. Another wave of strikes in Szczecin broke out in 1988 and 1989, which eventually led to the Round Table Agreement and first semi-free elections in post-war Poland.
Szczecin has been the capital of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.
Geography
Climate
Szczecin has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with some humid continental (Dfb) characteristics in normal not updated, typical of Western Pomerania. The winters are colder than on the immediate coast and the summers are warm, but still with some moderation, especially due to the Baltic Sea.
The average air temperature in Szczecin ranges from 8 to 8.4 °C. The hottest month is July with a temperature of 15.8 °C to 20.3 °C, the coldest January from -4.1 °C to 2.6 °C. Air temperature below 0 °C occurs on average over 86 days a year, most frequently in January and February. The average annual rainfall is 537 mm, the average rainfall in the cool half-year is 225 mm, and in the warmer half-year is 350 mm. On average, 167 days with precipitation occurs.
Climate data for Szczecin (Szczecin Dąbie), elevation: 1 m, 1991-2020 normals, extremes 1951–present | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 15.5 (59.9) |
17.9 (64.2) |
23.9 (75.0) |
30.6 (87.1) |
32.0 (89.6) |
35.6 (96.1) |
37.3 (99.1) |
37.8 (100.0) |
30.8 (87.4) |
26.7 (80.1) |
19.4 (66.9) |
14.9 (58.8) |
37.8 (100.0) |
Mean maximum °C (°F) | 9.8 (49.6) |
11.6 (52.9) |
17.2 (63.0) |
23.8 (74.8) |
27.5 (81.5) |
30.3 (86.5) |
31.6 (88.9) |
31.8 (89.2) |
25.7 (78.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
14.2 (57.6) |
10.8 (51.4) |
33.7 (92.7) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.0 (37.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.5 (47.3) |
14.7 (58.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
22.1 (71.8) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.0 (75.2) |
19.2 (66.6) |
13.5 (56.3) |
7.5 (45.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
13.7 (56.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.6 (33.1) |
1.5 (34.7) |
4.2 (39.6) |
9.2 (48.6) |
13.6 (56.5) |
16.8 (62.2) |
18.9 (66.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
14.3 (57.7) |
9.5 (49.1) |
4.9 (40.8) |
1.9 (35.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
0.4 (32.7) |
4.0 (39.2) |
8.2 (46.8) |
11.5 (52.7) |
13.8 (56.8) |
13.5 (56.3) |
9.9 (49.8) |
6.0 (42.8) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
5.5 (41.9) |
Mean minimum °C (°F) | −11.8 (10.8) |
−9.9 (14.2) |
−7.3 (18.9) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.7 (42.3) |
8.2 (46.8) |
7.2 (45.0) |
3.0 (37.4) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−15.0 (5.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −30.0 (−22.0) |
−28.7 (−19.7) |
−23.1 (−9.6) |
−7.7 (18.1) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
0.3 (32.5) |
4.4 (39.9) |
1.2 (34.2) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−22.3 (−8.1) |
−30.0 (−22.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 40.0 (1.57) |
32.8 (1.29) |
38.4 (1.51) |
31.2 (1.23) |
55.8 (2.20) |
59.1 (2.33) |
76.2 (3.00) |
60.3 (2.37) |
47.7 (1.88) |
43.5 (1.71) |
39.0 (1.54) |
43.0 (1.69) |
567.1 (22.33) |
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 3.6 (1.4) |
4.0 (1.6) |
1.9 (0.7) |
0.4 (0.2) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.7 (0.3) |
2.3 (0.9) |
4.0 (1.6) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 16.13 | 14.54 | 13.53 | 11.07 | 13.57 | 13.07 | 14.17 | 13.10 | 11.93 | 14.07 | 14.60 | 16.87 | 166.64 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0 cm) | 7.6 | 6.9 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 23.7 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 87.1 | 83.3 | 78.2 | 70.8 | 71.5 | 72.9 | 74.4 | 75.9 | 81.2 | 85.5 | 89.1 | 89.0 | 79.9 |
Average dew point °C (°F) | −1 (30) |
−1 (30) |
0 (32) |
3 (37) |
8 (46) |
11 (52) |
13 (55) |
13 (55) |
10 (50) |
7 (45) |
3 (37) |
0 (32) |
6 (42) |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 42.7 | 66.7 | 121.2 | 199.3 | 244.5 | 242.3 | 246.3 | 230.3 | 160.0 | 105.7 | 47.4 | 32.2 | 1,738.6 |
Average ultraviolet index | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Source 1: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Meteomodel.pl (records, relative humidity 1991–2020), Weather Atlas (UV), Time and Date (dewpoints, 1985-2015) |
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Architecture and urban planning
Szczecin's architectural style reflects trends popular in the last half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century: Academic art (historicist Gründerzeit) and Art Nouveau. In many areas built after 1945, especially in the city centre, which had been partly destroyed due to Allied bombing, social realism is prevalent.
The city has an abundance of green areas: parks and avenues – wide streets with trees planted in the island separating opposing traffic (where often tram tracks are laid); and roundabouts corresponding to the Orion constellation. Szczecin's city plan resembles that of Paris, mostly because Szczecin was remodelled in the 1880s according to a design by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who had redesigned Paris under Napoléon III. This pattern of street design is still used in Szczecin, as many recently built (or modified) city areas include roundabouts and avenues.
During the city's reconstruction in the aftermath of World War II, the communist authorities of Poland wanted the city's architecture to reflect an old Polish Piast era. Since no buildings from that time existed, instead Gothic as well as Renaissance buildings were picked as worthy of conservation. The motivation behind this decision was that Renaissance architecture was used by the Griffin dynasty, which had Lechitic and West Slavic roots and was seen to be of Piast extraction by some historians. This view was manifested, for example, by erecting respective memorials, and the naming of streets and enterprises, while German traces were replaced by symbols of three main categories: Piasts, the martyrdom of Poles, and gratitude to the Soviet and Polish armies which had ended the Nazi atrocities against Polish citizens.
The ruins of the former Griffin residence, initially renamed "Piast Palace", also played a central role in this concept and were reconstructed in Renaissance style, with all traces of later eras removed. In general, post-Renaissance buildings, especially those from the 19th and early 20th centuries, were deemed unworthy of conservation until the 1970s, and were in part used in the "Bricks for Warsaw" campaign (an effort to rebuild Warsaw after it had been systematically razed following the Warsaw Uprising): with 38 million bricks, Szczecin became Poland's largest brick supplier. The Old Town was rebuilt in the late 1990s, with new buildings, some of which were reconstructions of buildings destroyed in World War II.
The Gothic monuments preserved to this day are parts of European Route of Brick Gothic, along with monuments of other Pomeranian cities, e.g. Stargard, Kamień Pomorski, Sławno and Chełmno.
A portion of the Szczecin Landscape Park in the forest of Puszcza Bukowa lies within Szczecin's boundaries.
Szczecin contains 28 extant historic water pumps, known as Szczecin pumps or Berliners, which are a popular tourist attraction due to their colorful and intricate design.
- Façades in the rebuilt old town
- Grumbkow's Palace
- Tenement house at Vicory Square
- Velthusen Palace
- Bogusława X Street
- Grunwaldzki Square
Municipal administration
The city is administratively divided into districts (Polish: dzielnica), which are further divided into smaller neighbourhoods. The governing bodies of the latter serve the role of auxiliary local government bodies called Neighbourhood Councils (Polish: Rady Osiedla). Elections for neighbourhood councils are held up to six months after each City Council election. Voter turnout is rather low (on 20 May 2007 it ranged from 1.03% to 27.75% and was 3.78% on average). Councillors are responsible mostly for small infrastructure like trees, park benches, playgrounds, etc. Other functions are mostly advisory.
- Dzielnica Śródmieście (City Centre) includes: Centrum, Drzetowo-Grabowo, Łękno, Międzyodrze-Wyspa Pucka, Niebuszewo-Bolinko, Nowe Miasto, Stare Miasto, Śródmieście-Północ, Śródmieście-Zachód, Turzyn.
- Dzielnica Północ (North) includes: Bukowo, Golęcino-Gocław, Niebuszewo, Skolwin, Stołczyn, Warszewo, Żelechowa.
- Dzielnica Zachód (West) includes: Arkońskie-Niemierzyn, Głębokie-Pilchowo, Gumieńce, Krzekowo-Bezrzecze, Osów, Pogodno, Pomorzany, Świerczewo, Zawadzkiego-Klonowica.
- Dzielnica Prawobrzeże (Right-Bank) includes: Bukowe-Klęskowo, Dąbie, Kijewo, Osiedle Majowe, Osiedle Słoneczne, Płonia-Śmierdnica-Jezierzyce, Podjuchy, Wielgowo-Sławociesze, Załom, Zdroje, Żydowce-Klucz.
Other historical neighbourhoods
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Babin, Barnucin, Basen Górniczy, Błędów, Boleszyce, Bystrzyk, Cieszyce, Cieśnik, Dolina, Drzetowo, Dunikowo, Glinki, Grabowo, Jezierzyce, Kaliny, Kępa Barnicka, Kijewko, Kluczewko, Kłobucko, Kniewo, Kraśnica, Krzekoszów, Lotnisko, Łasztownia, Niemierzyn, Odolany, Oleszna, Podbórz, Port, os.Przyjaźni, Rogatka, Rudnik, Sienna, Skoki, Słowieńsko, Sosnówko, Starków, Stoki, Struga, Śmierdnica, os.Świerczewskie, Trzebusz, Urok, Widok, Zdunowo.
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
1600 | 5,000 | — |
1720 | 6,081 | +21.6% |
1740 | 12,300 | +102.3% |
1812 | 21,255 | +72.8% |
1840 | 35,300 | +66.1% |
1852 | 48,028 | +36.1% |
1861 | 58,487 | +21.8% |
1872 | 76,000 | +29.9% |
1885 | 99,543 | +31.0% |
1905 | 224,119 | +125.1% |
1939 | 383,000 | +70.9% |
1946 | 72,948 | −81.0% |
1950 | 178,907 | +145.3% |
1960 | 269,318 | +50.5% |
1970 | 338,000 | +25.5% |
1978 | 384,948 | +13.9% |
1988 | 410,331 | +6.6% |
2002 | 415,399 | +1.2% |
2011 | 410,131 | −1.3% |
2021 | 396,168 | −3.4% |
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Since the 12th-century Christianization of the city, the majority of the population were Catholics, then since the Renaissance era, up to the end of World War II, the vast majority of the population were Lutheran Protestants, and since 1945, the majority are again Catholics. Historically, the number of inhabitants doubled from 6,081 in 1720, to 12,360 in 1740, and reached 21,255 in 1812, with only 476 Catholics and 5 Jews. By 1852 the population was 48,028, and 58,487 ten years later (1861), including 1,065 Catholics and 1,438 Jews. In 1885, it was 99,543, and by 1905 it ballooned to 224,119 settlers (incl. the military), among them 209,152 Protestants, 8,635 Catholics and 3,010 Jews. In 1939, the number of inhabitants reached 268,421 persons according to German sources including 233,424 Protestants, 10,845 Catholics, and 1,102 Jews. The current population of Szczecin by comparison was 406,427 in 2009. Following the Revolution of Dignity, Szczecin, much like most other major urban centers in Poland, saw an unprecedented influx of foreign nationals, an overwhelming majority of them Ukrainians; in July 2017 26 thousand of them were officially registered as living and working in Szczecin, with unofficial estimates going as high as 50 thousand, thus making up more than 10% of the city's inhabitants.
- Number of inhabitants over the centuries
Politics
Recently, the city has favoured the centre right Civic Platform. Nearly two-thirds (64.54%) of votes cast in the second round of the 2010 presidential election went to the Civic Platform's Bronisław Komorowski, and in the following year's Polish parliamentary election the party won 46.75% of the vote in the Szczecin constituency with Law and Justice second garnering 21.66% and Palikot's Movement third with 11.8%.
Members of European Parliament (MEPs) from Szczecin
- Sławomir Nitras, PO, former MP in the Polish lower house of Parliament.
- Bogusław Liberadzki, SLD-UP, economist, former Minister of Transport.
- Marek Gróbarczyk, PiS, engineer and manager, Minister of Maritime Economy.
Museums and galleries
- National Museum in Szczecin (Polish Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie) is the largest cultural institution in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It has branches:
- The Main Building of Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3 Street.
- Szczecin's History Museum (Polish Muzeum Historii Szczecina) in the Old Town Hall, Szczecin, Księcia Mściwoja II Street.
- The Old Art Gallery of the National Museum, Staromłyńska Street 27.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Staromłyńska 1 Street.
- The Narrow Gauge Railway Exhibition in Gryfice
- Planned investments: Dialogue Center Breakthroughs (Polish Centrum Dialogu Przełomy) and Maritime Science Centre (Polish Muzeum Morskie – Centrum Nauki).
- Literature Museum (Polish Muzeum Literatury)
- EUREKA – the miracles of science.
- The Castle Museum (Polish Muzeum Zamkowe) in the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, Szczecin.
- Museum of Technology and Transport (Polish Muzeum Techniki i Komunikacji – Zajezdnia Sztuki).
Arts and entertainment
Interior of the Szczecin Philharmonic, which opened in 2014There are a few theatres and cinemas in Szczecin:
- The Castle Cinema (Polish Kino Zamek)
- Pionier 1909 Cinema (Polish Kino Pionier 1909)
- Kana Theatre (Polish Teatr Kana)
- Modern Theatre (Polish Teatr Współczesny)
- Opera in the Castle (Polish Opera na Zamku)
- Polish Theatre in Szczecin (Polish Teatr Polski w Szczecinie)
- The Cellar by the Vault Cabaret (Polish Kabaret Piwnica przy Krypcie)
- The Crypt Theatre (Polish Teatr Krypta)
- The Pleciuga Puppetry Theatre (Polish Teatr Lalek Pleciuga)
- The Niema Theatre (Polish Teatr Niema)
- Szczecin Philharmonic
and many historic places as:
- Bismarck tower Szczecin
- (ruins of) The Quistorp's Tower (Polish Wieża Quistorpa)
- Napoleon mound (at the intersection of Klonowica Street and Unii Lubelskiej Street)
The statue, Monument of Sailor stands at the Grunwald Square at John Paul II Avenue.
Local cuisine
The local cuisine in Szczecin was mostly shaped in the mid-20th century by people who settled in the city from other parts and regions of Poland, including the former Eastern Borderlands. The most renowned dishes of the area are pasztecik szczeciński and paprykarz szczeciński. Other local traditional foods and drinks include Szczecin gingerbread and beer.
Pasztecik szczeciński is a deep-fried yeast dough traditionally stuffed with minced meat (pork and beef) or vegetarian filling - cheese and mushrooms or cabbage and mushrooms, served in specialised bars as a fast food. The first bar serving pasztecik szczeciński, Bar "Pasztecik", founded in 1969, is located on Wojska Polskiego Avenue 46 in the centre of Szczecin. Pasztecik szczeciński is usually served with clear red borscht.
Paprykarz szczeciński is a paste made by mixing fish paste (around 50%) with rice, onion, tomato concentrate, vegetable oil, salt and a mixture of spices including chili powder to put it on a sandwich. It is available in most grocery stores in the country.
Szczecin gingerbread (pierniki szczecińskie) is a traditional local gingerbread glazed with chocolate or sugar with decorations mostly referring either to the city's architecture or to maritime motifs.
Szczecin beer (piwo szczecińskie) includes various types of traditional local Polish beer: light, amber, and wheat beer. The city's brewing traditions go back over a thousand years.
The word "szczeciński" or "szczecińskie" in the names of the products is an adjective from the name of the city of Szczecin, the place of its origin.
Sports
There are many popular professional sports teams in Szczecin area. The most popular sport today is probably football thanks to Pogoń Szczecin. Amateur sports are played by thousands of Szczecin citizens and also in schools of all levels (elementary, secondary, university).
Club | Sport | League | Trophies |
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Pogoń Szczecin | Football (men's) | Ekstraklasa | 0 |
Pogoń Szczecin | Football (women's) | Ekstraliga | 1 Polish Championship (2024) |
Wilki Morskie Szczecin | Basketball (men's) | Polish Basketball League | 1 Polish Championship (2023) |
Świt Szczecin | Football (men's) | II liga | 0 |
Pogoń Szczecin | Handball (women's) | Liga Centralna | 3 Polish Championships (1983, 1986, 1991) 4 Polish Cups (1971, 1980, 1986, 1992) |
Pogoń Szczecin | Handball (men's) | Liga Centralna | 0 |
Other notable teams:
- Arkonia Szczecin – football team, which competes in the lower divisions, but played in the top division in the past, and one of the most successful Polish water polo clubs
- KS Stal Szczecin – 15 youth and junior teams, 1 senior, being in 4th regional league in the 2008/2009 season
- KS Piast Szczecin – women's volleyball team, (Seria A in the 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 seasons)
- Łącznościowiec Szczecin - women's handball team
- OSoT Szczecin - trains Polish and foreign pole jumpers
- SEJK Pogoń Szczecin - sailing team
- Wicher Warszewo – futsal team playing in Środowiskowa Liga Futsalu (Futsal League) – two regional Futsal League: 2nd place in 2006/2007 season – promotion in the first regional Futsal League
- Husaria Szczecin – American football team playing in Polish American Football League
- Szczecin Dukes – senior baseball team
As can be seen above, many teams in Szczecin are named after Pogoń Lwów, a team from the Eastern Borderlands.
Amateur leagues
- Halowa Amatorska Liga Pilkarska – Hall Amateur Football League
- Halowa Liga Pilki Noznej – Hall Football League
- Szczecinska Liga Amatorskiej Koszykowki – Szczecin Amateur Basketball League
- Szczecinska Amatorska Liga Pilki Siatkowej – Szczecin Amateur Volleyball League – women league, 1st, 2nd and 3rd men league
- Elita Professional Sport – Elita Hall Football League – 1st and 2nd league, futsal cup
- Kaskada Szczecin Rugby Club – club rugby – 7 and 15 league, rugby cup
Cyclic events
Every year in September the men's tennis tournament Pekao Szczecin Open is held in Szczecin. In August, a marathon is organized in Szczecin.
Economy and transport
Economy
Szczecin is a center of the maritime economy; it employs 13279 people. The seaport of Szczecin serves shipowners from all over the world and is the home port of two shipping companies: Polsteam and Euroafrica. In addition, other maritime-related companies are headquartered here.
In 2013, a subzone of the Szczecin-Kostrzyn-Slubice Special Economic Zone was established.
As of September 2016, the number of registered unemployed in Szczecin included about 8,400 residents, representing an unemployment rate of 5.0% to the economically active population.
The average employee salary in October 2012 was PLN 3807.73, with the number of employed workers in Szczecin - 90,754 people. According to data from the District Labor Office in Szczecin, effective 1 January 2023, the minimum wage is PLN 3490, while the average salary of residents of the capital of West Pomerania is at PLN 6733.49.
In 2009, the average gross monthly salary in the enterprise sector in Szczecin was PLN 3439.94.
Szczecin's GDP is PLN 20.255 billion, which is 1/3 of the GDP of the entire province. There are 49497 zlotys per capita, about 40% more than the result for the province.
Air
Szczecin is served by Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport, which is 47 kilometres (29 miles) northeast of central Szczecin. There is also a grass airstrip within city limits, the Szczecin-Dąbie Airstrip.
Trams
Main article: Trams in SzczecinSzczecin has a tram network comprising 12 tram lines serving 95 tram stops and measuring 110.77 km (69 mi) in length. Tram transport is operated by the Tramwaje Szczecińskie (TS).
Szczecin's first horse tram opened in 1879, running from Gałczyńskiego Square to Staszica Street. In 1896, the first line using electric traction was opened. By 1900, the horse trams had been entirely replaced by electric trams.
Buses
Main article: Bus transport in SzczecinSzczecin has a bus network of 70 bus routes. Bus transport is operated by 4 companies: SPA Dąbie, SPA Klonowica, SPPK and PKS Szczecin.
Of all bus routes, 50 lines are designated as normal. At nighttime, Szczecin is served by a night bus network of 16 routes. There are also 7 express bus lines, which do not serve all stops on their route.
Roads
The recently upgraded A6 motorway serves as the southern bypass of the city, and connects to the German A11 autobahn (portions of which are currently undergoing upgrade), from where one can reach Berlin in about 90 minutes (about 150 km (93 mi)). Other important highways are the S3 Expressway, linking Szczecin with the more southern cities of Gorzów Wielkopolski, Zielona Góra and Legnica, and the S6 Expressway, connecting Szczecin with Koszalin (and eventually Gdańsk once the easternmost section is completed). Through intersections with other highways, Szczecin has convenient highway connections with a number of other major Polish cities, such as Poznań, Łódź, Wrocław, Katowice, Warsaw and Kraków. Also planned is the construction of the S10 highway to connect the city with Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Płock and Warsaw.
Rail
The main railway station – Szczecin Główny railway station – is situated in the city centre (Kolumba Street). Szczecin has good railway connections with "Solidarity" Szczecin–Goleniów Airport and the rest of Poland, e.g., Świnoujście, Kołobrzeg, Poznań, Wrocław, Warsaw and Gdańsk. Szczecin is also connected with Germany (Berlin (Gesundbrunnen) and through Pasewalk to Neubrandenburg and Lübeck), but only by two single-track, non-electrified lines. Because of this, the rail connection between Berlin and Szczecin is much slower and less convenient than one would expect between two European cities of that size and proximity.
Port
The Port of Szczecin is the third largest port in Poland and handles over 32 million tons of cargo annually. This is a harbour of the Baltic Sea and the Oder river.
Education and science
- University of Szczecin (Polish: Uniwersytet Szczeciński), with 35,000 students; rector: Waldemar Tarczyński
- West Pomeranian University of Technology (Polish: Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny)
- Pomeranian Medical University (Polish: Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny)
- Art Academy of Szczecin (Polish: Akademia Sztuki)
- Maritime University of Szczecin (Polish: Akademia Morska w Szczecinie)
- WSB Merito Universities – WSB Merito University in Poznań, departments of Economics
- The West Pomeranian Business School (Polish: Zachodniopomorska Szkoła Biznesu)
- Higher School of Public Administration in Szczecin (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej w Szczecinie)
- High Theological Seminary in Szczecin (Polish: Arcybiskupie Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Szczecinie)
- Higher School of Applied Arts (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Sztuki Użytkowej)
- Academy of European Integration (Polish: Wyższa Szkoła Integracji Europejskiej)
- Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Turystyczna
- Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna TWP
- Wyższa Szkoła Języków Obcych
- Wyższa Szkoła Techniczno-Ekonomiczna
- Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa - Collegium Balticum
- Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa "OECONOMICUS" PTE
- Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania
- Bangor University
- Universities in Szczecin
- Pomeranian Medical University
- West Pomeranian University of Technology
- Maritime University of Szczecin
- University of Szczecin, Faculty of Humanities
Scientific and regional organisations
- Western Pomeranian Institute (Polish: Instytut Zachodnio-Pomorski)
- Szczecin Scientific Society (Polish: Szczecińskie Towarzystwo Naukowe)
- local branches of Polish scientific societies in many disciplines, including Polish Philosophical Society, Polish Historical Society, Polish Philological Society, Polish Mathematical Society, Polish Economic Society, Polish Geographical Society, Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, Polish Phytopathological Society, Polish Parasitological Society and many medical societies
- local branches of students' societies, e.g., AIESEC, International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) and Polish Association of Dental Students
Famous people
Main article: List of people of SzczecinOver the long course of its history Szczecin has been a place of birth and of residence for many famous individuals, including Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, composer Carl Loewe, writer Alfred Döblin, actress Dita Parlo, mathematician Hermann Günther Grassmann, Roman Catholic priest Carl Lampert, poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Helena Majdaniec – "the queen of Polish Twist", and singer Violetta Villas.
International relations
Consulates
Honorary consulates of Italy and LithuaniaThere are 15 honorary consulates in Szczecin, of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Norway, Sweden and Ukraine.
Twin towns and sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in PolandSzczecin is twinned with:
- Bari, Italy
- Bremerhaven, Germany
- Dnipro, Ukraine
- Esbjerg, Denmark
- Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (Berlin), Germany
- Greifswald, Germany
- Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
- Klaipėda, Lithuania
- Malmö, Sweden
- Rostock, Germany
- St. Louis, United States
See also
- Towns near Szczecin: Stargard, Police, Gryfino, Goleniów, Pyrzyce, Cedynia, Chojna, Mieszkowice, Moryń, Trzcińsko-Zdrój, Nowe Warpno, Penkun (Germany), Pasewalk (Germany), Eggesin (Germany), Gartz (Germany)
- Villages near Szczecin: Kolbacz, Przęsocin, Kołbaskowo
- Szczecin Lagoon
- Międzyodrze-Wyspa Pucka
- Wkrzanska Forest
- Central Cemetery in Szczecin
- Ostrów Grabowski, an Oder river island in Szczecin
- Bystry Rów, a stream in Niebuszewo
- Gacek, a popular cat from Szczecin
Notes
- Spelling variants in medieval sources include:
- Stetin, recorded e.g. in 1133, 1159, 1177
- Stetyn, recorded, e.g., in 1188, 1243
- Stetim, 1237
- Szcecin, 1273.
- Stetina, by Herbord
- Sthetynensibus or Sthetyn, 1287, in Anglicised medieval Latin. (The ending –ens–ibus means 'to the people of' in Latin.)
- Stetinum and Sedinum, still used in contemporary Latin language references
- Stitin, recorded, e.g., in 1251, in the Annales Ryensis, in 1642
- Stitinum, by Saxo Grammaticus
- Stittinum
- Stytin, in the Annales Colbacensis.
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See also: Bibliography of the history of Szczecin- Encyclopedia of Szczecin. Vol. I, A–O. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999. ISBN 83-87341-45-2 (pl).
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External links
Szczecin travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Szczecin City Official website (in Polish, some material available in English, German)
- Mesmering Szczecin. One day city exploring
- Szczecin Info Page in German
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