Sulecin

Sulecin is a city in western Poland with 10,638 population 2008, the capital of Sulecin County, on the grounds that 1999 in Lubusz Voivodeship. Excavations have proven that the area round Sulecin became inhabited already within the 2nd century BC. The city advanced from a Slavonian settlement and turned into mentioned for the primary time in documents in 1241. Until the twelfth century under dominion of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty, the town with 10 surrounding villages was surpassed over through Henry I the Bearded to Mroczko from Pogorzela, who in 1244 gave it to the Knights Templar.

In 1249 Sulecin have become part of March of Brandenburg. In 1269 Otto, the Margrave of Brandenburg ordered to construct a fort inside the city. After disbanding of the Knights Templar Order by way of Pope Clement V in 1312 Sulecin changed into ruled by way of the Knights Hospitaller. They leased the town in 1318 to the Brandenburg Margrave Woldemar. Eight years later the town turned into reclaimed through the Knights Hospitalet Order and stayed under their supremacy until 1810. In 1419 Sulecin suffered a severe harm, because the Hussite Wars reached the town. In 1733 Frederick William King of Prussia visited the metropolis.