Szczecinek

Szczecinek is a ancient town in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with a populace of extra than 40,000. Formerly in the Koszalin Voivodeship, it has been the capital of Szczecinek County within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship considering that 1999. It is an essential railroad junction, located along the primary Poznan - Kolobrzeg line, which crosses less vital strains to Chojnice and Slupsk. The metropolis limitations have been expanded in 2009 to consist of the encircling villages of Swiatki and Trzesieka, a complete location of 48.63 rectangular kilometres.

The turbulent history of Szczecinek reaches returned to the High Middle Ages, when the location become dominated through Pomeranian dukes and princes. The majority of the metropolis's architecture survived World War II and, ultimately, its entire Old Town changed into proclaimed a national heritage monument of Poland. In 1310, the fortress and metropolis have been based beneath Lubeck regulation with the aid of Duke Wartislaw IV of Pomerania and modelled after Szczecin that is situated approximately 150 kilometres to the west. In 1707 the town turned into known in Polish as Nowoszczecin, at the same time as the Maly Szczecin name regularly evolved into the contemporary call Szczecinek.