Drzetowo

Template:Short description Template:Infobox settlement Drzetowo is a historical neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin, Poland.<ref name=eos>Encyclopedia of Szczecin. Vol. I, A-O. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999, p. 210. Template:ISBN (pl)</ref> It was merged with another historical neighbourhood (Grabowo) to form the present Drzetowo-Grabowo neighbourhood.

History

The area became part of the Polish state under its first ruler Mieszko I around 967,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and following Poland's fragmentation it formed part of the Duchy of Pomerania.

The village was historically known as Stettin-Bredow<ref name=eos/> or just Bredow.<ref name=EB1911>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> During the Thirty Years' War, the area fell under the Swedish Empire. Later, it passed to Prussia and, from 1871 until 1945, was part of Germany.

Historically, when part of Germany, the Vulcan iron-works and shipbuilding yards were located here.<ref name=EB1911/> The liners “Deutschland” (1900), the “Kaiserin Augusta Victoria” (1906), and the “George Washington” (1908), then the largest vessel — Template:Convert long, 27,000 tons — in the German mercantile marine, were built.<ref name=EB1911/> There were also sugar, cement and other factories.<ref name=EB1911/> Under Nazi Germany, in 1933, a concentration camp was established in the district.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

After World War II, in 1945, the area was reintegrated into Poland according to the Potsdam Agreement.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/poland-in-1945</ref>