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30 unusual facts about Gdansk


1983–1986

Songs were previously recorded in Gdańsk music studio SAR in 1986, but tapes with this material were irretrievably lost.

2005 in France

26 August – Jean Michel Jarre's "Space of Freedom" concert is held in Gdańsk, Poland, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the creation of Solidarność.

Alfons Flisykowski

Designated as a "bandit" by a paramilitary court (and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention), he was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in Danzig-Saspe on October 5, 1939.

Birger Dahlerus

He presented an offer, which included a proposal that Britain would agree to Germany offering to guarantee the borders of Poland, taking Danzig, and a referendum in the Polish corridor.

Falowiec

This type of building was built in Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s in the Polish city of Gdańsk, where there are eight buildings of this type.

Gdańsk astronomical clock

The Gdańsk astronomical clock is a fifteenth-century astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk.

Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival

Actors, human-shaped puppets and various artists, together with the residents of Dolne Miasto, march along Długi Targ, which is the centre of the Old Town of Gdańsk.

Most of the plays are performed on the theatre scenes of Gdańsk, Sopot, and Gdynia (Tricity).

Gemma Fay

Fay moved on to 141 appearances in May 2012, equalling the record held by Pauline Hamill, after playing in a 3–1 friendly win over Poland in Gdańsk.

Glisachaemus

The specimen is to be donated to the Museum of Amber Inclusions, University of Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland with the accession number "MIB 5075".

Jolanta Kwaśniewska

She met the future president while she was a law student at the University of Gdańsk, and they married in 1979.

Klaas Reimer

Reimer was born in 1770 to Heinrich Reimer and Agatha Epp (b. 1745) in the Vistula delta Mennonite settlement of Petershagen, Prussia, located about 35 km east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk).

Konrad Ekhof

In 1757 Ekhof left Schönemann to join Franz Schuch's company at the Polish city of Danzig Gdańsk; but he soon returned to Hamburg, where, in conjunction with two other actors, he succeeded Schönemann in the direction of the company.

Kraft process

The kraft process (so called because of the superior strength of the resulting paper, from the German word Kraft) was invented by Carl F. Dahl in 1879 in Danzig, Prussia, Germany.

Kunstkamera

In 1716 Peter established the mineral cabinet of Kunstkamera, depositing there a collection of 1195 minerals which he had bought from Gotvald, a Danzig doctor.

Maria Kaczyńska

She studied transport economics and foreign trade in Sopot at what is now the University of Gdańsk.

Martwa Wisła

Its river mouth and environs double as a harbor channel for the Inner Port of the port of Gdańsk.

Personel

The film also won the Grand Prize in the field of television films in the Third Polish Film Festival in Gdańsk in 1976, where Kieślowski was also honored by the award of journalists.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

During the experiment Poznań, Łódź and Gdańsk were connected and the 34 Mbit/s ATM network in an 622 Mbit/s SDH environment has been created and since then called POL-34.

Polferries

Until 2001, Polferries had owned two ferry terminals in Poland, the Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk and the Ferry Terminal in Świnoujście.

Port Island

::For Port Island in Gdańsk, see Port Island (Gdansk)

Prussian estates

They were at first composed of officials of six big cities of the region; Braunsberg (Braniewo), Culm (Chełmno), Elbing (Elbląg), Danzig (Gdańsk), Königsberg (Królewiec) and Thorn (Toruń).

Under Polish sovereignty, Prussians, particularly those from the Royal Prussia, saw their liberties confirmed and expanded; local cities prospered economically (Gdańsk become the largest and richest city in the Commonwealth), and local nobility participated in the benefits of Golden Liberty, such as the right to elect the king.

Renaissance of the 12th century

Hanseatic cities outside the Holy Roman Empire were, for instance, Bruges, London and the Polish city of Danzig (Gdańsk).

Słowiński National Park

The original idea of creating a preserve here came out in 1946, at a conference in Łeba with scientists from Poznań and Gdańsk.

SS-Oberabschnitt Weichsel

Prior to 1939, the division's primary focus was on German activity in the free city of Danzig as well as security preparations for war over the Polish Corridor question.

Stefan Liv

Liv was born in Gdynia, Poland, as Patryk Śliz, given to an orphanage in Gdańsk and adopted by a Swedish family around the age of two.

Type XXI submarine

Between 1943 and 1945, 118 boats were assembled by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, AG Weser of Bremen, and F. Schichau of Danzig.

Wilhelm August Stryowski

From 1870-1873 he was one of creators of the City Museum (now, National Museum in Gdańsk).


Abdou Traoré

Abdou Razack Traoré (born 1988), Burkanese-Ivorian footballer who plays for Polish club Lechia Gdańsk

Academic Gymnasium Danzig

Due to 450th anniversary of foundation of the Academic Gymnasium at Gdansk, Poland since 1945, which is on 13 June 2008, the National Museum in Gdańsk unveiled a memorial table dedicated to it and its contributions as part of Polish scholary and educational system.

Anna Dominiczak

Dominiczak studied medicine at the Medical School of Gdańsk, Poland (MD Hons), and worked as a Junior House Officer at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and a Senior House Officer and Registrar at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley.

Baltic Ground Services

In May 2010, Baltic Ground Services established a subsidiary in Poland with hopes to expand into six largest Polish airports in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznan and Katowice.

Battle of Lubieszów

On hearing of Winckelbruch's advance, hetman Zborowski marched all but 100 infantry out of Tczew to attack the Gdansk army, crossing the Motława River (a tributary of the Vistula then swollen with the spring thaw) at Rokitki, while Winckelbruch sent a force of 200 to delay the Commonwealth army as he tried to flank it and cross the Motława between two lakes to the south of the town of Lubieszów itself, west south west of Rokitki.

Drużno

Eastern Pomerania was the Duchy of Pomerelia, which spit into others including Kashubian-speaking areas west of Gdańsk.

Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions (1795), with the exception of Danzig (Gdańsk), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon "protection", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.

Free city

Free City of Danzig, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland

Gdańsk Voivodeship

The name Gdańsk Voivodeship has been used twice to designate local governments in Poland.

Gdansk Voivodeship (2) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1945–1975, superseded by the voivodeships of Gdansk (1), Elbląg and Słupsk (area of Lębork).

Gwiazda

Andrzej Gwiazda (born 1935), in Gdańsk engineer and prominent opposition leader

Johann von Hoverbeck

Johann von Hoverbeck, born in Aleksandrowice, a manor in the vicinity of Kraków, since 1614 attended the high school in Danzig (Gdańsk).

Josip Bodrožić

Two of his most noted accomplishments were bronze medals at W.A.K.O., world championships under full contact rules 1997 in Gdansk and 1999 in Caorle.

Koleje Mazowieckie

Słoneczny from Warsaw to Gdynia, through Legionowo, Nasielsk, Iłowo, Gdańsk (only in summer, KM9 line, the name means Sunny)

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

It lies at the crossroads of major international routes linking Dresden with Kiev, and Gdańsk with Budapest.

Long Market

The attic is decorated with coat of arms of Poland, Gdańsk and Royal Prussia and four sculptures.

Margrete Heiberg Bose

They moved to Gdansk where he was professor and editor of the journal Physikalische Zeitschrift.

Mateusz Skutnik

Mateusz J. Skutnik (born 26 July 1976 in Gdansk, Poland) is a graphic artist, game developer, and architect who graduated from the Technical University of Gdansk in Poland.

Mieczysław Cygan

Mieczysław Cygan (born 2 August 1921 in Koniuszki, died 7 April 2006 in Warsaw) - Polish military commander, Brigadier General of the Polish Army, military governor of Gdansk (1982–1988), Secretary General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites (1989–1990).

Narratio Prima

In September 1539 Rheticus went to Danzig (Gdańsk) to visit the mayor who gave Rheticus some financial assistance to publish the Narratio Prima.

Obwodnica Trójmiejska

It enables traveling up to Grudziądz using a motorway, and when the A1 is completed it will connect Gdańsk, through Toruń, Łódź and Katowice to the Czech border in the south.

Peace of Raciąż

The final treaty was signed in Raciąż and addressed some of the territories disputed between Poland, Lithuania and the Order: the Dobrzyń Land was to return to Poland for a fee, Samogitia was to remain with the Order, and the discussion regarding the Gdańsk (Danzig) region was inconclusive.

Piotr Salaber

He polished his composing skills under Karlheinz Stockhausen during master courses in Kuerten, near Cologne (1998–2002), as well as Elżbieta Sikora and Alain Savouret (International Course For Composers, Gdańsk 2000) Since the academic year 2006/2007 he has been giving lectures on film music at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and since 2010 also at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

Polish Golden Age

In architecture, Renaissance and Mannerism prevailed (see Renaissance in Poland, Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland), with best examples being the Sigismund's Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, tenement houses, churches and town halls in Poznan, Krakow, Zamosc, Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Lwow, Gdansk and other cities, as well as castles (Pieskowa Skala, Krzyztopor, Krasiczyn, Baranow Sandomierski and others).

Polish–Swedish wars

During the crossing of the Vistula near Kieżmark, in the vicinity of Danzig (Gdańsk), Gustav met the Polish forces and in the ensuing battle was wounded in the hip and forced to retreat.

Puszcza Darżlubska

The name of Puszcza Darżlubska comes from the nearby village of Darżlubie in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, north of Gdańsk.

Radunia

Near Krępiec (Krampitz), Radunia joins the Motława, a tributary to the Vistula (Weichsel) in Gdańsk.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

Steve DiStanislao

The last official show of the tour took place in Gdansk, Poland where the band were joined by conductor Zbigniew Preisner and The Gdansk Philharmonic Orchestra, to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Solidarity of the Shipyard Worker's Union in Gdansk.

Takis Fotopoulos

by Oliver Ressler & Aneta Szylak, 240 pages (20 pages in color), languages: English and Polish, ISBN 978-83-924665-0-5 (Gdansk: Wyspa Institute of Art, Poland, 2007).

Tiedemann Giese

Tiedemann Giese (1 June 1480 – 23 October 1550), was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk).

Werner von Orseln

Immediately after being elected, von Orseln was forced to start negotiations with King Władysław I the Elbow-high of Poland over the contested lands of Pomerelia, which the Knights had annexed after the takeover of Gdańsk in 1308.

Worek Plan

The remaining three submarines were to operate north of the Bay of Gdańsk : Sęp was further West near Rozewie, Ryś was further east, and Żbik in the middle.