Nowogród Bobrzański (german: Naumburg am Bober) is a town on the

Bóbr Bóbr ( cs, Bobr, german: Bober, ) is a river which carries water through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland, a left tributary of the Oder. Course The Bóbr has a length of (3 in Czech Republic, 276 in Poland, 10th ...

river in

Zielona Góra County __NOTOC__ Zielona Góra County ( pl, powiat zielonogórski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local governme ...

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 ...

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, with 5,165 inhabitants (2019). It is the administrative seat of the Gmina Nowogród Bobrzański. The gmina was created through the integration of Nowogród Bobrzański with the nearby Krzystkowice. It covers the area of 259,4 km².Nowogród Bobrzański
Strona internetowa miasta (homepage) .

History

The historic town was established in 1202 on the eastern banks of the Bóbr as the seat of a Castellan of

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

. The

Piast The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 930–992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great. Branche ...

duke

Henry I the Bearded Henry the Bearded ( pl, Henryk (Jędrzych) Brodaty, german: Heinrich der Bärtige; c. 1165/70 – 19 March 1238) was a Polish duke from the Piast dynasty. He was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1201, Duke of Kraków and High Duke of all Pol ...

established a college of Augustinian canons here in 1217. From 1274 Nowogród Bobrzański was part of the Silesian

Duchy of Żagań The Duchy of Żagań ( pl, Księstwo Żagańskie, cs, Zaháňské knížectví) or Duchy of Sagan (german: Herzogtum Sagan) was one of the duchies of Silesia ruled by the Silesian Piasts. Its capital was Żagań in Lower Silesia, the territory ...

. It received city rights in 1314. It was consumed by fire and destroyed by plagues in 1350, 1479 and 1723. In 1827 mineral springs were discovered and many tourists began to arrive. Naumburg am Bober was the seat of the firm Ostdeutsche Tiefbau GmbH ("East German Civil Engineering, Inc."), which was one of the contractors responsible for razing the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...

. Nowogród lost its city rights in 1945 following World War II due to depopulation, and again acquired them in 1988 by the merger with the adjacent

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 ...

n town of Krzystkowice (''Christianstadt''), the site of the Nazi German subcamp of Gross Rosen with an estimated number of 40,000 Polish and other victims.

Geography

The highest hill has 166.4 meters altitude. There are two rivers: the Bóbr and the Brzeźniczanka. Woods take up 60% of the land. The forest covers an area of and is divided into 22 parks. Overall, the forest constitutes 16.5% of Zielona Góra district. The

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts ...

is the most common tree. The age of an average tree is about 48 years. The annual growth of trees is 2.65 cubic metres per one hectare. The abundance of trees is high, as it is about 125 cubic metres for one hectare. There are two nurseries: Tuchola and Guzów. The Forest Inspectorate of Nowogród Bobrzański manages the following protection areas: * The nature reserve “Dąbrowa Brzeźnicza” * Peat bogs with rare species of animals such as beavers, cranes, snipes, harriers and rare species of plants, including ivy and laurel. * Nature monument made up by 8 old-growth trees, and the erratic boulder called “Diabelski Kamień”.

Points of interest

* St. Bartholomew Church from 12th century * Assumption Church from 13th century * Ruins of the factory where munitions were produced by Nazi Germany in 1940–1945

Twin towns – sister cities

See twin towns of Gmina Nowogród Bobrzański.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nowogrod Bobrzanski Cities and towns in Lubusz Voivodeship Zielona Góra County