Nowe Miasto Lubawskie

Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
	Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
	View of the Market Square
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	; Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
	Coordinates: 53°25′N 19°35′E / 53.417°N 19.583°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Warmian-Masurian
County	Nowe Miasto
Gmina	Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (urban gmina)
Established	1325
Town rights	1325
	Government
- Mayor	Alina Kopiczyńska
	Area
- Total	11.61 km2 (4.5 sq mi)
Elevation	82 m (269 ft)
	Population (2006)
- Total	11,036
- Density	950.6/km2 (2,461.9/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	13-300
Area code(s)	+48 56
Car plates	NNM
Website	www.umnowemiasto.pl

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Nowe Miasto Lubawskie [ˈnɔvɛ ˈmjastɔ luˈbafskʲɛ] (German: Neumark (help·info)) is a town in Poland, situated at river Drwęca. The population is 11,104 (2004). Nowe Miasto Lubawskie is the capital of Nowe Miasto County (Polish: powiat nowomiejski) and was assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999.

[edit] History

The town of Neumark was granted Kulm law city rights in 1325 by the Teutonic Order. In 1454, the city joined the Prussian Confederation, an association of cities and gentry that opposed the policy of the Order.

Neumark joined the Kingdom of Poland as part of western Prussia in 1466 (Second Peace of Thorn), where it remained until 1772 (Partitions of Poland).

At the end of the 19th century, the town was capital of Landkreis Löbau in the Prussian district of Marienwerder, it had a Lutheran and a Catholic church, a Progymnasium, a court, a steam mill with grain trading, and (as of 1885) 2678 inhabitants. The monastery Maria-Lonk was nearby.

The town was again in Poland after the (Versailles Treaty) in January 1920 . During the Second Polish Republic Nowe Miasto Lubawskie was the capital of Nowe Miasto County (Polish: powiat nowomiejski) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship.

On 21 January 1945 town was captured by the Red Army. After the war the town was returned to Poland.

[edit] Famous people

Zyta Gilowska, Polish economist and politician
Leonard Kniffel, American writer, published A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American's Journey Home, a travel memoir about contemporary life in the town of his ancestors.