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Białogard (;
Kashubian/
Pomeranian:
Biôłogard) is a
town in
Middle Pomerania, northwestern
Poland with 24,399 inhabitants (2004). The capital of
Białogard County in the
West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, the town was previously in
Koszalin Voivodeship (1950-1998).
History
According to archaeologists the Białogard stronghold was built in the fork of the
Parsęta and
Leśnica Rivers as early as the 8th century. In the 10th century it was an important centre of long-range international trade at the crossroads of two important trade routes: a north-south "salt route" from
Kołobrzeg to
Poznań and
Greater Poland, and the west-east Pomeranian route from
Szczecin to
Gdańsk.
Pomerania was inhabited by five or six tribes, and Białogard was probably the centre of one of them. In the 10th century Pomerania was conquered by the Polish dukes
Mieszko I and
Boleslaus the Brave, who established a bishopric in the nearby
Kołobrzeg in 1000, but the area was soon lost to Poland and
Christianity.
Białogard is first mentioned in the chronicle of
Gallus Anomynmous as a rich and populous stronghold in the middle of Pomerania, a famous royal city called white (
Alba Regia). This city was conquered by
Boleslaus III of Poland in 1107. By the invitation of Boleslaus the Wrymouth and his vassal
Wartislaw I of Pomerania, Bishop
Otto of Bamberg came with a mission to Pomerania in 1124; Białogard was one of the places he visited. In the 12th century Białogard was a seat of a regional governor (
castellan).
The town developed quickly as one of the more important economic centres of the
Duchy of Pomerania, and this was strengthened by the
Lübeck law granted to the city by Duke
Bogislaw IV in 1299. In the 14th century Białogard was a member of the
Hanseatic League. As a result of the feudal fragmentation of Pomerania, Białogard was part of Duchy of
Wolgast from 1295 and the Duchy of
Stolp from 1368. Duke
Wartislaw IV chose Białogard as his main place of residence in 1315. Pomerania was united under Duke
Bogislaw X in 1478, after 1569 Białogard was part of the
Duchy of Stettin, and later was again in the united Duchy of Pomerania under
Bogislaw XIV, the last Pomeranian monarch.
Throughout
Reformation the inhabitants of the town became
Protestant in 1534. After the death of the last Pomeranian Duke in 1637, and as a result of the
Thirty Years' War, Pomerania was divided between
Sweden and
Brandenburg-Prussia. In 1648 the town, then known as Belgard, fell to Brandenburg and became part of the
Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. In 1724 Belgard was made the capital of a county in the
Province of Pomerania, and after the administrative reorganization in 1815, the capital of
Landkreis Belgard in
Farther Pomerania.
The first post office in Belgard was opened in 1825. In 1858 the first
railroad connecting Belgard to Köslin (
Koszalin) and Schivelbein (
Świdwin) was completed; it was extended to
Stargard and Neustettin (
Szczecinek) in 1878. Belgard became part of the
German Empire in 1871.
The
Red Army occupied the town on March 4, 1945. As a result of the
Potsdam Conference following
World War II, Belgard was placed under Polish administration in 1945; its German population was
expelled and replaced with
Poles, many themselves expellees from
Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union. Białogard was made a county city in the
Szczecin Voivodeship, later
Koszalin Voivodeship, and now is located in
West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Population
» 1875: 7,081 inhabitants
1900: 8,407 inhabitants
» 1939: 16,455 inhabitants
1940: 16,500 inhabitants
» 1945: 14,300 inhabitants
1950: 12,700 inhabitants
» 1960: 17,800 inhabitants
1970: 20,600 inhabitants
» 1975: 21,800 inhabitants
1980: 22,500 inhabitants
» 1990: 24,200 inhabitants
1995: 25,100 inhabitants
» 2000: 25,740 inhabitants
2004: 24,399 inhabitants
Famous residents
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