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Pobiedziska commune (Poland)

Poznan county, Wielkopolskie vojvodship

image by Chrystian Kretowicz, 22 Nov 2008
adopted 24 Apr 2003

Pobiedziska city and commune flag
Pobiedziska Coat of Arms

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Pobiedziska city and commune flag

Pobiedziska - urban-rural commune, Poznań County, Wielkopolskie Voivodship - German name: Pudewitz.
Gmina Pobiedziska is an urban-rural gmina (commune) in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Pobiedziska, which lies approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) north-east of the regional capital Poznań.
Area: 189.27 sq.km (73.1 sq.mi); Population: 16,382 (2006). The commune includes the southern part of the Puszcza Zielonka forests and landscape park.

Named Pobiedziska by Prince Casimir I the Restorer (Kazimierz I Odnowiciel), Duke of Poland of the Piast dynasty and de facto monarch of the entire country, in the commemoration of his victory over the rebellious Masław of Masovia. ( "pobieda" = "victory" in archaic Polish and contemporary Russian).
1257 - city rights granted by Przemysł I
1331 - the Teutonic Knights looted and destroyed the town
1793 - to Prussia as a result of the second partition of Poland
1918 - disarming of German troops
1939 - Germans are back - this time Nazis
1945 - Soviet troops chase the Germans out
1990 - return of the real self-government

Arms and flag adopted on April 24, 2003 (resolution # VIII/63/03).
"Arms: shield divided into two halves: red and blue.
On the red field a Piast's white eagle (uncrowned - princely).
On the blue field an image of Prince Casimir I the Restorer, kneeling and praying.

Flag: a rectangle divided vertically into two fields: blue and red.
In the middle of the flag the Arms are placed."
(included is a photo of the flag carried by local children on the trip to the Ukraine in 2008).
Chrystian Kretowicz, 22 Nov 2008

Pobiedziska Coat of Arms

image by Chrystian Kretowicz, 22 Nov 2008
adopted 24 Apr 2003

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