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Leszno [] , German Lissa, (between 1800 and 1918 also called Polnisch Lissa or Polish Leszno) is a town in central Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 with 63,955 habitants (2008).

Situated in the southern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
 since 1999, it was previously the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship
Leszno Voivodeship

Leszno Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship....
 (1975-1998).

History
Leszno was first mentioned in historical documents in 1393. The settlement was then the property of Stefan z Karnina of Clan Wieniawa
Coat of arms of Wieniawa

Wieniawa is a Polish heraldry. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
.






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Leszno [] , German Lissa, (between 1800 and 1918 also called Polnisch Lissa or Polish Leszno) is a town in central Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 with 63,955 habitants (2008).

Situated in the southern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
 since 1999, it was previously the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship
Leszno Voivodeship

Leszno Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship....
 (1975-1998).

History


Leszno was first mentioned in historical documents in 1393. The settlement was then the property of Stefan z Karnina of Clan Wieniawa
Coat of arms of Wieniawa

Wieniawa is a Polish heraldry. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
. The family adopted the surname of Leszczynski
Leszczynski

Leszczynski, plural: Leszczynscy is the surname of a Poland szlachta family. Some Polish surnames have different forms for the genders, Leszczynska is the form for a female family member....
 from the name of their estate according to the medieval custom of the Polish nobility
Szlachta

Szlachta refers to the nobility social class in the Kingdom of Poland , the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the increasingly polonized territories under their control ....
.

In the early 16th century a community of Protestant Unity of the Brethren
Unity of the Brethren

The Unity of the Brethren is a Christian denomination whose roots are in the pre-reformation work of Jan Hus, who was martyred in 1415....
 refugees from Bohemia
Bohemia

History...
 settled in Leszno invited by the Leszczynski
Leszczynski

Leszczynski, plural: Leszczynscy is the surname of a Poland szlachta family. Some Polish surnames have different forms for the genders, Leszczynska is the form for a female family member....
 family, who were since 1473 imperial counts and had converted to Calvinism
Calvinism

Calvinism is a theology system and an approach to the Christian life that emphasizes the rule of God over all things. It was developed by several theologians, but it bears the name of the French Protestant Reformation John Calvin because of his prominent influence on it and because of his role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates t...
. The arrival of the Bohemian Protestants as well as weavers from nearby Silesia
Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
 helped the settlement to grow and made it possible to became a town in 1547 by a privilege given by King Sigismund I the Old
Sigismund I the Old

File:Poland and Lithuania in 1526.PNGSigismund I the Old of the Jagiellon dynasty reigned as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 to his death at age 81 in 1548....
. Leszno was also the biggest printing center in Greater Poland
Greater Poland

Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznan. Administratively, most of the region now forms Greater Poland Voivodeship , although some parts lie in Lubusz Voivodeship, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and L?dz Voivodeship Voivodeships of Poland....
 thanks to the activity of the Protestant community, whose number increased because of inflow of German refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years War. At the time it already had a Gymnasium school led for a period by Jan Amos Komenskż (known in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 as Comenius
Comenius

John Amos Comenius was a Czechs teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Church Protestantism bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of public education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna....
), a Bohemian educator who was a bishop of the Unity of the Brethren
Unity of the Brethren

The Unity of the Brethren is a Christian denomination whose roots are in the pre-reformation work of Jan Hus, who was martyred in 1415....
. From 1638 to his death in 1647, Johann Heermann
Johann Heermann

Johann Heermann , Germany poet and hymn-writer. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt....
, a German-speaking poet, lived in Leszno. Between 1736 and 1639 the town became fortified and its area increased. The golden era of Leszno ended with a large fire in 1655. During the Great Northern War
Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
 the town was burned again in 1707 and had a plague in 1709. The Leszczynski family owned the city until 1738 when king Stanislaw Leszczynski
Stanislaw Leszczynski

Stanislaw I Leszczynski was King of Poland of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire .Born at Lw?w in 1677, he was the son of Rafal Leszczynski , voivode of Poznan Voivodeship, and Anna Jablonowska....
 sold it after he abdicated for the second time.

During the Second Partition of Poland
Second Partition of Poland

The Second Partition of Poland or Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1793 as the second of partitions of Poland that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795....
 in 1793, Leszno was annexed by Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
 and became part of Province of Posen
Province of Posen

The Province of Posen was a province of Kingdom of Prussia from 1848-1918 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918; the whole area is now part of Poland....
 as Lissa. The town took part in the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)

The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against Weimar Republic....
 and was returned to Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 by the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
 on 1920 January 17. The town was annexed by Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 in 1939. The Polish population was resettled to the General Government
General Government

The General Government refers to a part of the territories of Poland under German military occupation during World War II by Nazi Germany and was an autonomous part of "Greater Germany"....
. Most of the town's Jewish population (which in its history included such famous rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
s as Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck

Leo Baeck was an 20th century Germany-Poland-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism....
 and Jacob of Lissa as well as the Polish-Jewish writer Ludwig Kalisch
Ludwig Kalisch

Ludwig Kalisch was a Poland-Germany Jewish novelist.When only twelve years of age he left his home and became successively pedler, merchant, and teacher....
) was exterminated by the Nazis. See the photograph "Execution of Poles by Einsatzkommando" in the Wikipedia article Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen were paramilitary groups formed by Heinrich Himmler and operated by the Schutzstaffel before and during World War II. Their principal task, per SS General Erich von dem Bach, at the Nuremberg Trials: "was the annihilation of the Jews, Roma people, and Soviet Union political commissars"....
. The town returned to Poland in 1945. After the war, the city underwent a period of fast development especially between 1975 and 1998 when it was a seat of a voivodeship
Voivodeship

A voivodeship, also spelled voivodship, voivodina or vojvodina , is a type of administrative division dating to medieval Poland, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Serbia , ruled by a voivode ....
 administrative area. In 2000 the city was awarded "The Golden Star of Town Twinning" prize by the European Commission
European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
.

Sport


  • Unia Leszno
    Unia Leszno

    Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established in 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. They compete in the Speedway Ekstraliga and are the league champions from the 2007 Speedway Ekstraliga....
     speedway club http://www.unia.leszno.pl/


  • Leszno Aero Club http://www.aeroklub.leszno.pl/


Primary Schools


  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 1
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 2
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 3
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 4
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 5
  • Zespól Szkól Specjalnych Nr 6
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 7
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 9
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 10
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 12
  • Szkola Podstawowa Nr 13


Gimnazja


  • Gimnazjum Nr 1
  • Gimnazjum Nr 2
  • Gimnazjum Nr 3
  • Gimnazjum Nr 4
  • Gimnazjum Nr 5
  • Zespól Szkól Specjalnych Nr 6
  • Gimnazjum Nr 7
  • Gimnazjum Nr 8
  • Gimnazjum Nr 9


Secondary Schools


  • Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace Nr 1
  • Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace Nr 2
  • Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace Nr 3
  • Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace Nr 4


Technical Schools


  • Zespól Szkól Rolniczo-Budowlanych im. Synów Pulku
  • Zespól Szkól Ekonomicznych im.Jana Amosa Komenskiego
  • Zespól Szkól Technicznych
  • Zespól Szkól Elektroniczno-Telekomunikacyjnych
  • Zespól Szkól Ochrony Srodowiska

High Schools


  • Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa
    Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa

    Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa is a type of vocational university in Poland. Offers BS or BA degree .pl:Panstwowe wyzsze szkoly zawodowe w Polsce...
     http://www.pwsz.edu.pl/
  • Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczna
  • Wyzsza Szkola Marketingu i Zarzadzania http://www.wsmiz.edu.pl/
  • Nauczycielskie Kolegium Jezyków Obcych http://www.nkjoleszno.pl/


People


  • Leszczynski
    Leszczynski

    Leszczynski, plural: Leszczynscy is the surname of a Poland szlachta family. Some Polish surnames have different forms for the genders, Leszczynska is the form for a female family member....
     family
  • Jan Amos Komenskż
    Comenius

    John Amos Comenius was a Czechs teacher, scientist, educator, and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian Church Protestantism bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of public education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna....
  • Johann Heermann
    Johann Heermann

    Johann Heermann , Germany poet and hymn-writer. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt....
  • John Jonston
    John Jonston

    John Jonston was a Polish scholar and practicing medical doctor, descended from Scottish nobility, and closely connected to the Polish magnate Leszczynski's family....
  • King Stanislaw I (Leszczynski)
    Stanislaw Leszczynski

    Stanislaw I Leszczynski was King of Poland of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire .Born at Lw?w in 1677, he was the son of Rafal Leszczynski , voivode of Poznan Voivodeship, and Anna Jablonowska....
    , later Duke of Lorraine
  • Haym Solomon
    Haym Solomon

    [hyam salomon .jpg|thumb|Drawing of Haym Solomon by C. Noar, from NARA.]]Haym Solomon was a Polish Jew who immigrated to New York during the period of the American Revolution, and who became a prime financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain....
  • Leo Baeck
    Leo Baeck

    Leo Baeck was an 20th century Germany-Poland-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism....
  • Jacob of Lissa
  • Albert Mosse
    Albert Mosse

    Isaac Albert Mosse was a Germany judge and legal scholar. Mosse's importance lies in the working out of Japan's Meiji Constitution and his continuation of Litthauer's Comments on the German Commercial law....
  • Ludwig Kalisch
    Ludwig Kalisch

    Ludwig Kalisch was a Poland-Germany Jewish novelist.When only twelve years of age he left his home and became successively pedler, merchant, and teacher....
  • Stefan Grot-Rowecki
    Stefan Rowecki

    Stefan Pawel Rowecki was a Poland general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa. He was murderd by the Gestapo in prison, probably on the direct order of Heinrich Himmler....
  • Stanislaw Grochowiak
    Stanislaw Grochowiak

    Stanislaw Grochowiak was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism, because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he also exhibits strong tendencies toward formal, rhymed poetry, reaching on many occasions the ornamental grace of a baroque style....
  • Bogdan Golik
    Bogdan Golik

    Bogdan Golik is a Politics of Poland politician andMember of the European Parliament for Lodz Voivodshipwith the Self-Defense of the Polish Republic and sits on the...