Gryfino

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Template:Infobox settlement Gryfino Template:IPAc-pl (Template:Langx) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland,Template:TERYT with 21,393 inhabitants (2017). It is the capital of Gryfino County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The town is located on the Odra Wschodnia, the eastern branch of the Oder river, about Template:Convert south of Szczecin in Poland. The western branch of the Oder, Template:Convert away from the town center, marks the border with Germany. There is a direct road link between Gryfino and the German town of Mescherin across the river.

The Crooked Forest is located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo, just outside Gryfino.

History

The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under Mieszko I around 967.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Following the fragmentation of Poland into smaller duchies it formed part of the Duchy of Pomerania. There are archaeological traces of Slavic settlement dating back to the 12th century.<ref name=kal/>

The settlement was built in 1230 when the area was part of the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin in the Holy Roman Empire.<ref name=EB/> It was granted Magdeburg town rights by Duke Barnim I under the name Greifenhagen in 1254.<ref name=kal/> In 1271 Barnim I granted guild privileges modelled after Szczecin.<ref name=gk181>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1281 the town was exempted from customs duties and declared a free port.<ref name=gk181/> In 1284 it obtained a permission to build defensive walls<ref name=kal/> and was one of the Pomeranian towns that guaranteed a peace treaty between the Duchy of Pomerania and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.<ref name=gk181/> Greifenhagen was in conflict with the town of Gartz across the Oder (current twin town), which was resolved in 1304.<ref name=gk182>Kratz, p. 182</ref> In 1306 Duke Otto I allowed the town to build a bridge and a dam over the Oder and collect customs duties on it like Stettin (Szczecin).<ref name=gk182/>

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Map of Greifenhagen in 1618 by Eilhard Lubinus

In the Thirty Years' War, the town was hit by epidemics in 1625 and 1638, and was occupied by the Holy Roman Empire in 1627–1630 and by Sweden in 1630–1640.<ref name=kal/> After the war, it remained in Swedish possession. In 1675 it was captured by the Brandenburg-Prussia, into whose possession it came finally in 1679.<ref name=EB>{{#if: | 

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Two labour camps of the Reich Labour Service were located in the town under Nazi Germany.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the final months of World War II, in March 1945, it was captured by Soviet and Polish forces.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During the conquest the town center was heavily destroyed. Afterwards, the region became again part of Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The remaining German population was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement and gradually replaced by Polish settlers. Despite the existence of the old Polish name Gryfów,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the town was first renamed to Gryfin,<ref>Template:Cite map</ref> and in 1946 to Gryfino by replacing the German suffix -hagen by the Polish suffix -ino.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

After the war, the town's life was reestablished, in 1945 the first schools began teaching, in 1946 the Gryf cinema was opened, and in 1947 the municipal library was opened.<ref name=kal/> A new hospital and culture center were opened in 1955 and 1958, respectively.<ref name=kal/> From 1975 to 1998 Gryfino was administratively located in the Szczecin Voivodeship. Underground anti-communist press was published in Gryfino from 1982 to 1984.<ref name=kal/> In 2021, a mural to Polish resistance hero Witold Pilecki was unveiled in Gryfino.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1974 the first unit of Dolna Odra Power Station, a large coal-fired power station, went in service.

Demographics

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Sports

The main local sports team are handball team KPR Gryfino, which competes in the I liga (as of 2023–24),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and football team Template:Ill, which competes in the lower divisions. There are also various youth clubs dedicated to athletics, gymnastics,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> swimming,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> chess,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> etc.

Transport

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Gryfino train station

There is a railway station in the town, located on the significant Wrocław–Szczecin railway.

International relations

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Towns near Gryfino

Notable people

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References

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