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{{Short description|Town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland}}
{{other places|Luboń (disambiguation)}}
{{more citations needed|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Luboń
| image_skyline = Lubon kosciol.JPG
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = St. Barbara's church
| image_flag = POL Luboń flag.svg
| image_shield = POL Luboń COA.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Greater Poland Voivodeship|Greater Poland]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Poznań County|Poznań]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = Luboń <small>(urban gmina)</small>
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Małgorzata Machalska
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date = 1316
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = 1954
| elevation_min_m = 70
| elevation_max_m = 83
| area_total_km2 = 13.52
| population_as_of = 2022
| population_total = 32 848
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|52|20|00|N|16|53|00|E|region:PL_type:city|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 62-030
| area_code = +48 61
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = POZ, PZ
| blank1_name = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
| blank1_info = [[Oceanic climate|Cfb]]
| blank_name_sec2 = Primary airport
| blank_info_sec2 = [[Poznań–Ławica Airport]]
| blank1_name_sec2 = [[Highways in Poland|Highways]]
| blank1_info_sec2 = [[File:A2-PL.svg|32px|link=A2 autostrada (Poland)]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.lubon.pl}}
}}
'''Luboń''' {{IPAc-pl|'|l|u|b|o|ń}} ({{langx|de|Luban}}) is a town in [[Poland]], situated on the [[Warta River]], in the [[Poznań]] metropolitan area, in the [[Poznań County]] in the [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]].{{TERYT}} It has 32,848 inhabitants (2022). The town was created in 1954 by the merger of 3 long established villages; (Old) Luboń, [[Żabikowo, Luboń|Żabikowo]] and Lasek.

==History==
The oldest known mention of Luboń dates back to 1316, while [[Żabikowo, Luboń|Żabikowo]] was mentioned in 1283,<ref name=lub>{{cite web|url=http://lubon.pl/contents/content/69/21|title=Historia|website=Urząd Miasta Luboń|accessdate=22 March 2020|language=pl}}</ref> and Lasek was founded in 1756. All three villages were part of the [[Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province]] until the 1793 [[Second Partition of Poland]], when they were annexed by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]. After the successful [[Greater Poland uprising (1806)|Greater Poland uprising of 1806]], it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived [[Duchy of Warsaw]]. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia.
[[File:Wystawa wyższej szkoły rolniczej imienia Haliny w Żabikowie pod Poznaniem (58832).jpg|thumb|left|College of Agriculture in Żabikowo in the 1870s]]
Since 1856 a railway line connecting [[Poznań]] with [[Wrocław]] ran through present-day Luboń.<ref name=lub/> In 1870, a College of Agriculture (''Wyższa Szkoła Rolnicza'') was established in Żabikowo, as a Polish college, and was forced to close in 1876 as a result of [[Anti-Polish sentiment|anti-Polish]] policies of the German authorities.<ref name=lub/> From 1871 part of Germany, the Germans located new factories in Luboń and initiated [[Drang nach Osten|German colonization]] after 1905 in order to change its ethnic composition.<ref name=lub/> After [[World War I]] Poland regained independence in 1918 and Luboń was reintegrated with Poland.

During [[World War II]] Luboń was [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied by Germany]] from 1939 to 1945. The Germans established a [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] camp for [[Jews]] in Żabikowo (called ''Poggenburg'' by the [[Nazi]]s) in the north-west of Luboń. In 1943–1945 Żabikowo was also the site of a Nazi prison camp, which replaced the [[Fort VII]] camp in western [[Poznań]], and in which over 20,000 people were imprisoned.<ref name=pnm>{{cite web|url=https://poznan.naszemiasto.pl/68-lat-temu-zlikwidowano-oboz-hitlerowski-w-zabikowie/ar/c1-1700137|title=68 lat temu zlikwidowano obóz hitlerowski w Żabikowie [ZDJĘCIA]|website=Poznań Nasze Miasto|accessdate=22 March 2020|language=pl}}</ref> The prisoners were mainly members of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance movement]],<ref name=lub/> but also [[Luxembourg Resistance|Luxembourgers]], Dutch, Hungarians, Slovaks, Americans, Soviet prisoners of war and deserters from the [[Wehrmacht]].<ref name=pnm/> Prisoners were subjected to inhuman living conditions, torture and executions.<ref name=pnm/> There is now a museum and a [["Never war" monument|monument entitled ''Nigdy wojny'']] ("Never War") by [[Józef Gosławski (Polish sculptor)|Józef Gosławski]], as well other monuments to various people imprisoned and murdered in the camp. After the end of German occupation, the area was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which stayed in power until the [[Fall of Communism]] in the 1980s.

Luboń was granted [[town rights]] in 1954<ref>{{cite book|last=Krzysztofik|first=Robert|title=Lokacje miejskie na obszarze Polski. Dokumentacja geograficzno-historyczna|year=2007|location=Katowice|publisher=Wydawnictwo [[Uniwersytet Śląski|Uniwersytetu Śląskiego]]|language=pl|pages=46–47|isbn=978-83-226-1616-1}}</ref> with Żabikowo and Lasek included within its town limits. From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the [[Poznań Voivodeship]]. In August 1980, employees of local factories joined the nationwide anti-communist strikes,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Zwiernik|first=Przemysław|year=2011|title=Opór społeczny i opozycja w epoce Gierka|magazine=Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej|language=pl|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|issue=5–6 (126–127)|page=131|issn=1641-9561}}</ref> which led to the foundation of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] organization, which played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=140>
File:Lubon gimnazjum.JPG|John Paul II Elementary School No.5
File:Warta w Luboniu.jpg|Warta River in Luboń
File:Siewca Luboń RB5.JPG|Historic Sower Monument (''Pomnik Siewcy''), created by [[Marcin Rożek]]
File:PL Lubon Zabikowo Nigdy wojny 07.JPG|[["Never war" monument]] at the site of the Nazi German prison in Żabikowo
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Bambrzy]]
*[[Poznań County]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Luboń}}
*{{Official website|https://www.lubon.pl}}

{{Poznań County}}
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Poznań County]]