Nieszawa ( Polish pronunciation: [ɲɛˈʂava] ; German : Nessau ) is a town and a commune in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship , in north-central Poland . As of June 30, 2014, the town has a population of 1,985 people. It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia .
7-751: The Statutes of Nieszawa , enacted in this town at 1454, have a significance in Polish legal and social history. Nieszawa was granted town rights in 1460, and in the following centuries it was a royal town of the Polish Crown , administratively located in the Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province . Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939,
14-670: The Lebensraum policy. In 1945 the German occupation ended and the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet -installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The most important historic landmarks and sights of the town are the Gothic Church of Saint Hedwig (High Duchess consort of Poland), built in the 15th century, which possesses rich Gothic- Renaissance - Baroque interior,
21-713: The Kingdom of Poland in 1454, in the town of Nieszawa located in north-central Poland. The King Casimir IV Jagiellon made a number of concessions to the Polish nobility and the gentry ( szlachta ) in exchange for their support in the Thirteen Years' War . Among other things, the Statutes required the King to seek the lords' approval when issuing new laws, when levying the mobilisation of armed forces ( pospolite ruszenie ), or when imposing new taxes. The Statutes strengthened
28-728: The Baroque Franciscan Monastery with the Church of the Invention of the Holy Cross, the Stanisław Noakowski Museum dedicated to Polish architect and artist Stanisław Noakowski , located in his former home, and the historic market square filled with old townhouses and the town hall. Statutes of Nieszawa The Nieszawa Statutes ( Polish : statuty nieszawskie ) were a set of laws enacted in
35-475: The position of some of the nobility at the expense of less agreeable estates. With the Statute of Nieszawa, King Casimir (1427–1492) – who was a brother of Władysław III of Poland (1424–1444), the new King of Hungary – also managed to take further advantage of the political split between the richest and most influential Polish families, and the much broader class of szlachta . The statute substantially limited
42-463: The power of the former in exchange for the new privileges bestowed upon the latter. From then on, szlachta consent was required in the passing of new laws, as well as, for the declaration of war. Equally important, was the significant reduction in the autonomy of the Church controlled by Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki (one of the most powerful magnates). It allowed the king to appoint Catholic bishops himself. This Polish history –related article
49-684: The town was invaded and then occupied by Germany . The Germans immediately carried mass arrests of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion . Nieszawa was one of the sites of executions of Poles carried out by Germany in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion . In December 1939, the Germans also expelled around 1,000 Poles from the town. Further expulsions of Poles were carried out in 1940. Houses, offices, shops and workshops of expelled Poles were handed over to Germans as part of
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