Swiecie

Swiecie is a city in northern Poland with 25,968 population, located in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship; it changed into in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Swiecie County. Swiecie have become the house of Pomeranian Duke Grimislaw, while in 1198 the St. Mary's church turned into erected there. Grimislaw's Duchy of Pomerania blanketed prominent towns of Starogard Gdanski and Lubiszewo Tczewskie, in addition to Skarszewy with its surrounding region.

The Teutonic Order conquered Gdansk in 1309 and in 1310 sold Pomeralia in Soldin from the Margraves of Brandenburg. By then, the agreement already had the repute of Civitas, simply as Gdansk and Tczew did. Swiecie become granted a municipal form of presidency with the aid of the Teutonic Order, when it became nonetheless located at the excessive west bank of the Vistula. Probably because of destruction through fire, all through the duration 1338–1375 the metropolis became relocated down into the valley on the Vistula.

After the 13 Years' War Swiecie became part of the self sustaining province of Royal Prussia integrated into the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, in the course of the Partitions of Poland, the city turned into annexed through the Kingdom of Prussia, and Schwetz was included into the newly formed Province of West Prussia. In 1905 the metropolis had a Protestant church, Catholic church buildings and a synagogue.