Nowe Kramsko

Village in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

52°8′N 15°46′E / 52.133°N 15.767°E / 52.133; 15.767Country

PolandVoivodeshipLubuszCountyZielona GóraGminaBabimostPopulation

(approx.)

• Total854Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

66-111

Area code+48 68Vehicle registrationFZIPrimary airportZielona Góra AirportVoivodeship roads

Nowe Kramsko [ˈnɔvɛ ˈkramskɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Babimost, within Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Babimost and 28 km (17 mi) north-east of Zielona Góra. It is situated on the northern shore of Lake Wojnowskie.

The Zielona Góra Airport is located in Nowe Kramsko.

History

Nowe Kramsko was founded in the 13th century. In 1314 it was granted to the Cistercians of Obra. It remained a possession of the Cistercians, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province,^[2] until the Second Partition of Poland, when it was annexed by Prussia. Briefly regained by Poles in 1807 as part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, in 1815 it was annexed by Prussia again.^[3] Despite the Germanisation policies pursued by the Prussian authorities towards the local population, Polish associations were founded in the village: the Association of Industrialists and Farmers (Towarzystwo Przemysłowców i Rolników) in 1895 and the Catholic Association of Polish Workers (Katolickie Towarzystwo Robotników Polskich) in 1904.^[3] In 1912, the Polish Bank Ludowy was founded in the village.^[4] On 2–3 February 1919, during the Greater Poland Uprising, the village was the site of the Battle of Nowe Kramsko [pl], won by the Polish insurgents against Germany.

In 1939, the Gestapo carried out an anti-Polish operation in the village, closing down a local Polish farmers' association and a cooperative, and confiscating their files and funds.^[5] In 1939, the Germans also carried out arrests of local Polish leaders, activists and school teachers, who were then deported to concentration camps (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[6] Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in 1945, the village was restored to Poland.

Sights

Among the historic sights of Nowe Kramsko are the church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with the church cemetery, an old wooden windmill and a manor house, which currently houses a library. There is also a memorial stone dedicated to the Greater Poland insurgents of 1918–19.

Sports

The local football club is Polonia Nowe Kramsko [pl]. It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable people

Łucjan Królikowski [pl] (1919–2019), Polish Conventual Franciscan, sybirak, centenarian
Joachim Benyskiewicz [pl] (1936–2011), Polish historian

Gallery

Memorial stone to the Greater Poland insurgents of 1918–19
Library
Windmill
Zielona Góra Airport

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
^ ^a ^b "Historia / Babimost". Powiat Zielonogórski – Starostwo Powiatowe w Zielonej Górze (in Polish). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
^ Leksykon Polactwa w Niemczech (in Polish). Opole: Związek Polaków w Niemczech. 1939. p. 36.
^ Cygański, Mirosław (1984). "Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939-1945". Przegląd Zachodni (in Polish) (4): 46.
^ Cygański, p. 49