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Revision as of 13:15, 27 June 2006 by Smith2006 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Ustka (-Polish; Kashubian/Pomeranian: Ùstka; German: Stolpmünde), is a town in Middle Pomerania region, northwestern Poland with 17,100 inhabitants (2001). Ii is also part of Slupsk County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously in Slupsk Voivodship (1975-1998).
Popular tourist destination and a fishing port on the south coasts of the Baltic.
Monuments: lighthouse from 1871 and church from 1882. The first historic records mention the village of Ujsc or Ujscie of Pomerania in 1310. Later on it became Germanized due to German settlers entering the area, invited by the Slavic Pomeranian dukes. It became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and, finally, the Third Reich. In 1945 the city was ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference; its population, both Germans and local Germanized Slavs, were expulsed forcibly to West Germany. The town was resettled by Polish refugees from Galicia and by colonists from central Poland.
The eastern part of the town is older and is currently focusing most of the tourist traffic. However, an extremely costly beach maintanance makes the western part more and more popular.
In the proximity of Ustka is a military exercise area from which Meteor-type sounding rockets were launched in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Population
1960: 6,100
1970: 9,500
1975: 12,400
1980: 15,200
2001: 17,100
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