Mogilno

Sister cities

• Engelskirchen

History

Mogilno is one of the oldest settlements along the border of the Greater Poland and Kuyavia historical regions. Since the turn of the 8th and 9th century until the 10th century an early-medieval settlement existed there, at the long narrow headland surrounded by waters of Mogilno Lake from the west and south and marshes from the east. In 1065, a Benedictine abbey was founded there by Bolesław the Generous. North of the abbey a town later developed, which in 1398 was granted a town charter by King Władysław II Jagiełło, and which was the abbey's property until 1773. Administratively it was located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the town became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia. In local baptism records from 1792, the town is spelled Mogillno. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution, it was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815. In 1918, Poland regained independence, and shortly afterwards the Greater Poland uprising broke out, which goal was to reunite the town and region with the reborn Polish state. The town was liberated by Polish insurgents on 1 January 1919. Since 1898 until his death in 1910 a parish priest in Mogilno's other church St. Jacob (Św. Jakuba) was Piotr Wawrzyniak. During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, it was the site of fierce Polish defense. On 18 September 1939, German forces incited by members of Mogilno German minority killed 40 Poles, one of whom was of Jewish descent. The victims were picked out by local Volksdeutsche with Polish citizenship for execution. The oldest victim was 75, the youngest 17. The…

Most-observed species

• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  92
• Black-headed Gull

  Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  82
• Graylag Goose

  Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  81
• Great Cormorant/European Shag

  Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  76
• Great Crested Grebe

  Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  73
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  73
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  65
• Yellowhammer

  Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  60

Most recent

• M 2.8 — 2007-05-06
  4 km NW of ?erków, Poland