Drawno () is a town in

Choszczno County __NOTOC__ Choszczno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pa ...

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, in north-western Poland, with 2,219 inhabitants as of December 2021. The headquarters of the Drawa National Park (''Drawieński Park Narodowy'') are located here.

History

The territory became part of the emerging Polish state under its first ruler

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around 967. In the 10th-11th centuries, using the suitable location between two lakes, a Slavic gród and a fishing village were established here. In different periods in the Middle Ages it was a part of

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. In the 13th century Drawno was part of the

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, a province of fragmented

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Town rights Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the tradition ...

were granted between 1313 and 1333. From 1373 Drawno was part of the

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(or ''Czech Lands''), ruled by the Luxembourg dynasty. In 1402, the Luxembourgs reached an agreement with

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. Poland was to buy and re-incorporate Drawno and its surroundings, but eventually the Luxembourgs sold the city to the

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. During the Polish–Teutonic War (1431–35) Drawno rebelled against the Order to join Poland and recognized the Polish King as rightful ruler, but after the

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, the town, after receiving a guarantee of impunity for siding with Poland, returned to the rule of the Teutonic Knights, although, as it turned out, for a short time - only until 1454. The medieval castle was rebuilt in

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style around 1600, but later on it was destroyed in the 17th and 18th century wars.Józef Pilch, Stanisław Kowalski, ''Leksykon zabytków architektury Pomorza Zachodniego i ziemi lubuskiej'', Wydawnictwo ARKADY sp. z o.o., Warszawa, 2012 (in Polish)

Gallery

Dubie from Drawno 2009-08.jpg, Dubie Lake Rudno lake 2009-08.jpg, Rudno Lake Drawno spichlerz.jpg, Old granary, now a museum Drawno zamek (3).jpg, Ruins of the Drawno Castle

Notable residents

* Erich Rüdiger von Wedel (1892–1954), German World War I flying ace

References

External links

Official town webpage

Jewish Community in Drawno
on Virtual Shtetl Cities and towns in West Pomeranian Voivodeship Choszczno County Populated lakeshore places in Poland {{Choszczno-geo-stub