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Słupsk Town Hall
The Słupsk Town Hall ( pl, Ratusz w Słupsku, german: Rathaus in Stolp) is the chief administrative building of Słupsk, a town in northwestern Poland. The town hall was completed in 1901 in the Gothic Revival style and is a listed heritage monument protected by Polish law. The building continues to serve as the official residence of the town council. History The Gothic Revival style town hall was built near Plac Zwyciestwa (Victory Square). At the time, the town was under Prussian rule. The town hall is located on the site of a lake. In the second half of the 19th-century, the lake was filled in with sand from the Northern Wood. As a result, Victory Square and the surrounding area developed into a suburb. The expanded city outgrew its 1798 town hall that was beginning to collapse. The town purchased the site of the former hospital on Tuwima Street to construct a replacement building. In 1897, the town council held a design contest for a new town hall. Architect Hugo Licht, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Słupsk
Słupsk (; , ; formerly german: Stolp, ; also known by several alternative names) is a city with powiat rights located on the Słupia River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland, in the historical region of Pomerania or more specifically in its part known in contemporary Poland as Central Pomerania (''Pomorze Środkowe'') within the wider West Pomerania (''Pomorze Zachodnie''), while in Germany the corresponding area is known as East Pomerania (''Ostpommern'') within the wider Farther Pomerania (''Hinterpommern''). According to Statistics Poland, it has a population of 88,835 inhabitants while occupying , thus being one of the most densely populated cities in the country as of December 2021 . In addition, the city is the administrative seat of Słupsk County and the rural Gmina Słupsk, despite belonging to neither, while until 1999 it was the capital of Słupsk Voivodeship. Słupsk had its origins as a Pomeranian settlement in the early Middle Ages. In 1265 it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
