Chlebowo, Lubusz Voivodeship
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Chlebowo ( dsb, Namašklěb, german: Niemaschkleba, 1935-1945: Lindenhain, 1945-1953: Niemaszchleba) is a
village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Gubin __NOTOC__ Gmina Gubin is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Krosno Odrzańskie County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, on the Germany, German border. Its seat is the town of Gubin, Poland, Gubin, although the town is not part of the ...
, within
Krosno Odrzańskie County __NOTOC__ Krosno Odrzańskie County ( pl, powiat krośnieński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland, on the German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result o ...
,
Lubusz Voivodeship Lubusz Voivodeship, or Lubuskie Province ( pl, województwo lubuskie ), is a voivodeship (province) in western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra Voivodeships, pursuant to the Po ...
, in western Poland, close to the
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border.


Geography

It lies on the northeastern rim of the historic
Lower Lusatia Lower Lusatia (; ; ; szl, Dolnŏ Łużyca; ; ) is a historical region in Central Europe, stretching from the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg to the southwest of Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. Like adjacent Upper Lusatia in the sou ...
region, approximately north-east of Gubin, west of
Krosno Odrzańskie Krosno Odrzańskie (german: Crossen an der Oder) is a city on the east bank of Oder River, at the confluence with the Bóbr. The town in Western Poland with 11,319 inhabitants (2019) is the capital of Krosno Odrzańskie County, Krosno County. I ...
, and west of
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.


History

The name of the village is possibly derived from Slavic ''chleb'' ("bread"). It was first documented as ''Schwchleb'' and ''Nemascleb'' in the 1295 '' Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis'' document by the
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. The settlement then was located at the eastern border of the German
March of Lusatia The March or Margraviate of Lusatia (german: Mark(grafschaft) Lausitz) was as an eastern border march of the Holy Roman Empire in the lands settled by Polabian Slavs. It arose in 965 in the course of the partition of the vast ''Marca Geronis''. R ...
, close to the Silesian
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. The area was part of the
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before it passed to the
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according to the 1635 Peace of Prague. Ceded to the
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, it was incorporated into the
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in 1815. Under
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rule, the village's name was
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to ''Lindenhain'' in 1937; after it fell to the
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according to the 1945
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(see ''
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''), it was renamed ''Niemaszchleba'' and again in 1953 Chlebowo.


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