Trzcianka

File:Kościół par. pw. św. Jana Chrzciciela z lat 1914-15 - Trzcianka (4) m.bocz..jpg Church of St. John the Baptist]]

The settlement, initially named Rozdróżka, was probably founded in the 13th century.{{cite web|url=http://www.trzcianka.pl/page/rys-historyczny|title=Rys historyczny|website=Serwis Miasta i Gminy Trzcianka|accessdate=8 September 2020|language=Polish}} It was located on a trade route which connected Poznań and Kołobrzeg. Rozdróżka was mentioned in a document from 1245, when Duke Boleslaus V of Poland gave the land in the Noteć river valley, along with three villages (Biała, Gulcz, and Rozdróżka) to a Polish nobleman named Sędziwój of Czarnków. The new name of these three combined villages was Trzciana Łąka, as it appeared for the first time in 1565, and it was subsequently changed to Trzcianka in the 17th century.

Trzciana Łąka was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown,Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany, Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, 2017, p. 1a (in Polish) and in the 17th century it became a settlement of weavers and clothiers. It was owned by the Gembicki family, thanks to whom it developed, and in 1679 Andrzej Gembicki referred to it as a town. In 1671 Polish King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki issued a privilege which established new annual fairs in Trzcianka. It was granted town rights by King Augustus II the Strong in 1731. In the mid-18th century it was owned by the magnate Stanisław Poniatowski, father of the last Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski, and the Poniatowskis' Ciołek coat of arms has been the town's coat of arms since. In the 18th century, Trzcianka was one of the leading clothmaking centers in Greater Poland, however, after the late 18th century Partitions of Poland and the annexation of the town by Prussia in 1772, the local economy collapsed.

In 1807 the town was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany and was known as Schönlanke. The Prussian Eastern Railway, inaugurated in 1851 brought an economic boom to the town. Schönlanke had belonged to the Czarnikau district in the Province of Posen until 1920, after which it became the seat of the newly established Netzekreis district in the Province of Posen-West Prussia.

In the final months of World War II, Soviet troops marching towards Berlin from the east entered the town on 27 January 1945. Around this time, about 500 people committed suicide.{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/spiegelspecial/d-39863564.html|title=Tief vergraben, nicht dran rühren|last=Lakotta|first=Beate|publisher=SPON|date=2005-03-05|accessdate=2010-08-16|language=German}} Following the war, the abandoned town was eventually restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. In August 1980, employees of local factories joined the nationwide anti-communist strikes,{{cite magazine|last=Zwiernik|first=Przemysław|year=2011|title=Opór społeczny i opozycja w epoce Gierka|magazine=Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej|language=pl|publisher=IPN|issue=5–6 (126–127)|page=131|issn=1641-9561}} which led to the foundation of the "Solidarity" organization.

File:Centrum Integracji Społecznej w Trzciance.jpg

File:Logo Trzcianka.jpg

There is a local historic museum (Muzeum Ziemi Nadnoteckiej) in Trzcianka.

The officially protected traditional food originating from Trzcianka is kiełbasa swojska nadnotecka, a local type of kiełbasa (as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland).{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.pl/web/rolnictwo/kielbasa-swojska-nadnotecka|title=Kiełbasa swojska nadnotecka|website=Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl|accessdate=30 May 2021|language=pl}}

• Michael Solomon Alexander, first Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem was born here
• Andrzej Aumiller (born 1947), Polish politician, and Member of Parliament was born here
• Krystian Feciuch (born 1989), Polish footballer
• Hubert Mickley (1918–1944), Wehrmacht officer
• Max Raphael (1889–1952), German-American art historian of art of the Upper Paleolithic
• Gustav Ferdinand Mehler (1835-1895), German mathematician

Jezioro Logo01.jpg|Długie Lake

Trzcianka - Lake Sarcz 01.jpg|Beach on Sarcze Lake

Galeria Abita Trzcianka.JPG|Shopping mall

Trzcianka willa.JPG|Art Nouveau Pedagogical Library

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.trzcianka.pl Official page] (English, German, Polish)
• [https://trzcianka.info Unofficial site of the city] ( Polish)

{{commons category|Trzcianka}}

{{Gmina Trzcianka}}

{{Pomerania}}

{{Authority control}}

Category:Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship

Category:Czarnków-Trzcianka County

Category:13th-century establishments in Poland

Category:Populated places established in the 13th century