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11 unusual facts about West Pomeranian Voivodeship


Barwice

Since in 1999 the rail road between Grzmiąca (Gramenz) and Kostrzyn (Küstrin) had been closed down, a rail connection to Barwice does no longer exist.

Bieńczyce

Bieńczyce, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in the district of Gmina Nowogard, Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Czepiec

Czepiec, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, village in the administrative district of Gmina Wałcz, Wałcz County

Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming

Flemming was born in Martenthin into an old noble Brandenburg family that probably emigrated from the Netherlands.

Manfred Swarsensky

Manfred Erich Swarsensky (22 October 1906 in Marienfließ in Pomerania – 10 November 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a German-American rabbi.

Oćwieka

Oćwieka, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a settlement in the Gmina Przelewice, Pyrzyce County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Parsko

Parsko, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Barlinek, Myślibórz County, Poland

Słudwia

Słudwia, a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland

The Dark House

Edward Środoń, an unemployed zootechnician from Mosty with a dark past and a growing drinking problem, tries to start over with a clean slate.

University of Szczecin

It is the biggest university in West Pomerania, with 33,267 students and a staff of nearly 1,200.

Wicko

Wicko - Gmina Międzyzdroje, West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland)


Großer Mützelburger See

Großer Mützelburger See (Jezioro Myśliborskie Wielkie) - is a lake in Ueckermünder Heide (Puszcza Wkrzańska), Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

Jolanta Danielak

A native of the northwestern town of Szczecinek, the seat of Szczecinek County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Jolanta Ryszarda Szwajkowska graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań with a degree in psychology and, after earning a degree from Akademia Spraw Wewnętrznych Academy of Internal Affairs in Warsaw, spent a number of years working as a court, police and hospital psychologist.

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (born 11 July 1940, in Hütten bei Gellin, Province of Pomerania, Germany (now Sitno, Szczecinek County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) is a Professor Emeritus in public-, and civil law at University of Erlangen" in Nuremberg, Germany.

Lubusz Voivodeship

In the administrative reforms of 1998, the original proposals made no provision for a separate Lubusz voivodeship – Gorzów would have been part of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Zielona Góra would have been in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Province of Lebus or Palatinate of Lebus) , and other parts of the region were assigned to Greater Poland Voivodeship.

Słupsk Voivodeship

was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, previously part of Szczecin Voivodeship (1945–50) and Koszalin Voivodeship (1950–75), superseded (since 1999) by Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Sławno County).