Chelmno

Chelmno is a metropolis in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 20,000 population and the historic capital of Chelmno Land. Situated within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship due to the fact 1999, Chelmno became previously in Torun Voivodeship. The first written point out of Chelmno is known from a file allegedly issued in 1065 via Duke Boleslaus of Poland for the Benedictine monastery in Mogilno. In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia invited the Teutonic Knights to Chelmno Land. In 1233 Kulm changed into granted city rights known as "Kulm regulation", the model system for over 200 Polish cities.

The metropolis grew wealthy as a member of the mercantile Hanseatic League. Kulm and Chelmno Land have been part of the Teutonic Knights' kingdom until 1466, when after the 13 Years' War Chelmno become integrated into Poland and made the capital of Chelmno Voivodeship. In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland-Lithuania, the metropolis changed into taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia. Between 1807 and 1815 Chelmno become a part of the Duchy of Warsaw, being reannexed by using Prussia at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.