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Goleniów
Coordinates: 53°33′49″N 14°49′41″E / 53.56361°N 14.82806°E / 53.56361; 14.82806
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
County	Goleniów County
Gmina	Gmina Goleniów
Established	13th century
Town rights	1268
Government
• Mayor	Robert Krupowicz
Area
• Total	11.74 km2 (4.53 sq mi)
Elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	22,844
• Density	1,900/km2 (5,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	72-100
Area code(s)	+48 91
Car plates	ZGL
Website	http://www.goleniow.pl

Goleniów [ɡɔˈlɛɲuf] (Kashubian: Gòłonóg; German: Gollnow) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 22,399 inhabitants (2004). It is the capital of Goleniów County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Szczecin Voivodeship (1975–1998). Town area is 12.5 square kilometres (4.8 sq mi), geographical situation 53°33'N and 14°49'E. It is situated in the centre of Goleniowska Forest on Goleniów Plain, near main roads numbers 3 and 6. Nearby town-part: Helenów

The international airport Szczecin-Goleniów "Solidarność" Airport is located just East of the town.

History

Saint Catherine's Church in Goleniów

Goleniow, then Gollnow, was founded twice: First, Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania granted the settlement Magdeburg Law and additional privileges in 1264, yet the town was rechartered with Lübeck Law, which favoured the local merchants, in 1314.^[1] The town grew by exploiting the vast timber reserves in the town-owned forests, and by trade.^[1] Gollnow was connected to the Baltic Sea trade routes by the port of Ihnamünde at the mouth of the Ihna (now Ina) river.^[1] Competition with nearby Stettin (now Szczecin) led to a series of conflicts between the two towns, the differences were set aside only in 1615 when the towns signed a reconciling treaty.^[1]

The Thirty Years' War devastated the town, and as a consequence of the post-war Peace of Westphalia (1648) and Treaty of Stettin (1653), Gollnow remained with Sweden who had occupied the area since the Treaty of Stettin (1630).^[1] The border with Brandenburg-Prussian Pomerania now ran close to the town, and cut Gollnow off from its economic hinterland, which hindered recovery from the war.^[1] Between 1677 and 1693, Gollnow was occupied by Brandenburg-Prussia.^[1] In the years that followed, the number of craftsmen in the town grew steadily.^[1] In 1720, Sweden lost her possessions south of the Peene and east of the Peenestrom rivers, including Gollnow, to Prussia in the Treaty of Stockholm. In the 19th century, craft and trade were joined by industry - Gollnow hosted a coppersmith, a needle fabrication, several facilities for the manufacturing of furniture, three breweries, a distillery, and five water mills.^[1] In the late 19th and early 20th century, Gollnow became an important railroad junction, when it was connected to Neudamm and Naugard in 1882, to Kammin and Wollin in 1892, and to Massow in 1903.^[2] Gollnow was part of the reconstituted Prussian province of Pomerania from 1815 to 1945.

On 7 March 1945, the town was captured by the Red Army and became Polish. The population fled or was expelled and the town was resettled with Poles.

Population

International relations

Goleniów is twinned with:

Towns near Goleniów

• 
  Szczecin City (Poland)


• Police, Poland


• 
  Stargard (Poland)


• 
  Maszewo (Poland)


• 
  Nowogard (Poland)


• 
  Kamień Pomorski (Poland)


• 
  Wolin (town) (Poland)


• 
  Golczewo (Poland)

Tourist villages near Goleniów

• Jarszewko

Notable people

Johan Frederik Clemens, 1776

• 
  Johan Frederik Clemens (1749–1831), a Pomeranian-Danish printmaker in etching.


• 
  Werner Kollath (1892–1970), a German bacteriologist, hygienist and food scientist.


• 
  Günther Marks (1897–1978), a German church musician, organist and composer


• 
  Helga Paris (born 1938), German photographer


• 
  Marek Leśniak (born 1964), a retired Polish footballer, played over 500 pro games and 20 for Poland


• 
  Grzegorz Stępniak (born 1989) a Polish professional racing cyclist


• 
  Tom Swoon (born 1993), DJ, remixer and record producer

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Goleniów.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Gollnow.

• Official town website


• 
  Jewish Community in Goleniów on Virtual Shtetl


• Satellilte photo via Google Maps

Coordinates: 53°34′N 14°49′E / 53.567°N 14.817°E / 53.567; 14.817