Miejska Górka

Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Place in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Coat of arms

51°39′20″N 16°57′40″E / 51.65556°N 16.96111°E / 51.65556; 16.96111Country

PolandVoivodeshipGreater PolandCountyRawiczGminaMiejska GórkaTown rightsbefore 1406Area

• Total3.09 km² (1.19 sq mi)Population

(2010)^[1]

• Total3,190 • Density1,000/km² (2,700/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

63-910

Vehicle registrationPRANational roads

Voivodeship roads

Websitehttp://www.miejska-gorka.pl/

Miejska Górka [ˈmʲɛi̯ska ˈɡurka] is a town in Rawicz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.^[2] With 3,190 inhabitants (2010), it lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Rawicz and 83 km (52 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Miejska Górka was granted town rights before 1406. It was a private town, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[3]

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Miejska Górka was occupied by Germany until 1945. The occupiers operated a subcamp of the Nazi prison in Rawicz, dedicated to prisoners suffering from tuberculosis.^[4] On 22 May 1941, the Germans perpetrated a public execution of 25 Poles in the town (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).^[5] The command of the Miejscowa Organizacja Podziemna Polish resistance organization was operating in Miejska Górka, and eventually became part of the larger Home Army in 1944.^[6]

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1871	1,761	—
1880	1,792	+1.8%
1890	2,012	+12.3%
1900	2,233	+11.0%
1910	2,682	+20.1%
1921	2,545	−5.1%

Year	Pop.	±%
1931	2,644	+3.9%
1939	3,008	+13.8%
1950	2,774	−7.8%
1960	3,024	+9.0%
2010	3,190	+5.5%

Source: ^[7]^[1]

Transport

There is a railway station in Miejska Górka, and the national road 36 passes through the town.

References

^ ^a ^b Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 105. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.
^ "Miejska Górka w liczbach". polskawliczbach.pl (in Polish). Retrieved June 8, 2022.
^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
^ Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945 (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. 1998. p. 478. ISBN 83-85003-97-5.
^ Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945. p. 146.
^ Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945. p. 215.
^ Dokumentacja Geograficzna (in Polish). Vol. 3/4. Warszawa: Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1967. p. 29.