Wyrzysk

History

The Wyrzysk area was established first by East Germanic settlement at the beginning of the first millennium A.D. In the Middle Ages the Noteć became a natural border between the regions of Greater Poland and Pomerania, and the area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century under the Piast dynasty. Later on, it long resisted the expansion of the German margraves, and since the 13th century also the Teutonic Knights. With time, local people adopted the Polish name Krajna for the area to the north of the Noteć. Eventually Polish ruler Bolesław III Wrymouth (1106–1138) conquered the castles on the Noteć and incorporated Krajna into the Kingdom of Poland for the next 700 years. The first preserved mention of Wyrzysk dates back to 1326; the name of the place was then recorded in the so-called Greater Poland Codex. Wyrzysk was probably granted the royal charter before 1450; in 1565 it became a town under the so-called Magdeburg law. Administratively, it was located in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. As a result of series of wars in the second half of 17th century and beginning of 18th Wyrzysk became in fact a village. Wyrzysk was annexed by Prussia in 1772 in the First Partition of Poland. The town rights were renewed in 1773 by the Prussian King Frederick the Great who made the town a centre administering the construction of the Bydgoszcz Canal and the regulation of the Noteć. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. In 1815 it was reannexed by Prussia as a result of Congress of Vienna. It remained Prussian until the end of First World War. The Prussian monarch and his successors aimed at Germanisation of the annexed lands. The methods…

Most-observed species

• Common Crane

  Grus grus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  245
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  212
• Graylag Goose

  Anser anser (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  203
• Mute Swan

  Cygnus olor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  195
• Northern Lapwing

  Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  180
• Gray/Purple Heron

  Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  178
• White-tailed Eagle

  Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  177
• Black-headed Gull

  Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  174