Niekłończyca (formerly german: Königsfelde) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Police, within Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border. It lies approximately north-west of Police and north of the regional capital

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

History

First references to Niekłończyca (''Königsfelde'') came from 1750. Niekłończyca, known as ''Königsfelde'' to its residents while part of Germany from 1815–1945, became part of Poland after the end of World War II and changed its name to the Polish ''Niekłończyca''. Below is a time line showing the history of the different administrations that this city has been included in. Political-administrative membership: * 1815–1866: German Confederation, Kingdom of Prussia, Pomerania * 1866–1871: North German Confederation, Kingdom of Prussia, Pomerania * 1871–1918:

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

, Kingdom of Prussia, Pomerania * 1919–1933: Weimar Republic, Free State of Prussia, Pomerania * 1933–1945: Nazi Germany, Pomerania * 1945–1946:

Enclave of Police Enclave of Police was an area centred on the town of Police, in the District of the Western Pomerania, Poland, that was under the administration of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, from 5 October 1945 to 25 September 1946. It was independent of Pol ...

(the area reporting to the Red Army) * 1946–1989:

People's Republic of Poland The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...

Szczecin Voivodeship Szczecin Voivodeship may also refer to: * Szczecin Voivodeship (1946–1975) *Szczecin Voivodeship (1975–1998) *West Pomeranian Voivodeship, with the capital in Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ...

* 1989–1998: Poland, Szczecin Voivodeship * 1999–present: Poland, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Police County

Monuments

* Baroque church (1787) * Houses from the 19th and the 20th century

Demography

The population of Niekłończyca: * 1863 – 385 * 1939 – 625 * 2001 – 350 * 2006 – 390

Tourism

* Bicycle trail (red Szlak rowerowy czerwony

''Trail "Puszcza Wkrzańska"''-''Szlak "Puszcza Wkrzańska"'') in an area of Niekłończyca in Wkrzanska Forest.''Okolice Szczecina: 1:75 000''. Warszawa : ExpressMap Polska, 2007. p.1-2.

History

Monuments

Demography

Tourism

References

See also