{{Short description|Town in Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Babimost | settlement_type = | image_skyline = 16913 Babimost ratusz.JPG | image_caption = Town center with the town hall | image_flag = POL Babimost flag.svg | image_shield = POL Babimost COA.svg | pushpin_map = Poland | pushpin_label_position = bottom | coordinates = {{coord|52|09|53|N|15|49|40|E|region:PL_type:city|display=title,inline}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{POL}} | subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Lubusz Voivodeship|name=Lubusz}} | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Zielona Góra | subdivision_type3 = Gmina | subdivision_name3 = Babimost | established_title = Town rights | established_date = 1397 | government_footnotes = <ref name="mayor">{{cite web |url=http://bip.wrota.lubuskie.pl/ugbabimost/115/Burmistrz/ |title=Burmistrz |website=bip.wrota.lubuskie.pl |publisher=Urząd Miejski w Babimoście |language=pl|trans-title=Mayor |access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref> | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Bernard Radny | area_footnotes = <ref name="area">{{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=6 March 2023}} Category K1, group G441, subgroup P1410. Data for territorial unit 0809014.</ref> | area_total_km2 = 3.65 | population_footnotes = <ref name="population">{{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=6 March 2023}} Category K3, group G7, subgroup P1336. Data for territorial unit 0809014.</ref><ref name="population_density">{{cite web |url=http://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka |title=Local Data Bank |website=bdl.stat.gov.pl |publisher=Statistics Poland |access-date=6 March 2023}} Category K3, group G7, subgroup P2425. Data for territorial unit 0809014.</ref> | population_as_of = 30 June 2022 | population_total = 3848 | population_density_km2 = 1054 | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code<ref name="postal_code">{{cite web |url=http://www.poczta-polska.pl/hermes/uploads/2013/11/spispna.pdf |title=Oficjalny Spis Pocztowych Numerów Adresowych |website=poczta-polska.pl |publisher=Poczta Polska |pages=9, 1655 |language=pl|format=PDF |access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref> | postal_code = 66-110 | area_code_type = Area code<ref name="area_code">{{Cite Polish law |title=Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 30 października 2013 r. w sprawie planu numeracji krajowej dla publicznych sieci telekomunikacyjnych, w których świadczone są publicznie dostępne usługi telefoniczne |year=2013 |number=1281 |date=2013-10-30}}</ref> | area_code = +48 68 | registration_plate_type = Car plates<ref name="number_plates">{{Cite Polish law |title=Rozporządzenie Ministra Infrastruktury z dnia 31 sierpnia 2022 r. w sprawie rejestracji i oznaczania pojazdów, wymagań dla tablic rejestracyjnych oraz wzorów innych dokumentów związanych z rejestracją pojazdów |year=2022 |number=1847 |date=2022-08-31}}</ref> | registration_plate = FZI | blank_name = Climate | blank_info = Dfb | blank_name_sec2 = Primary airport | blank_info_sec2 = Zielona Góra Airport | website = {{URL|https://babimost.pl/}} }} '''Babimost''' ({{IPA|pl|baˈbʲimɔst|-|Pl-Babimost.ogg}}; {{langx|de|Bomst}}) is a town in Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland.{{TERYT}} It is the administrative seat of Gmina Babimost. Babimost has an area of {{convert|3.65|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=off}},<ref name=area/> and as of June 2022 it has a population of 3,848.<ref name=population/>
==Geography== The town is situated on the Leniwa Obra creek. Though located in Lubusz Voivodeship, Babimost is part of the Greater Poland historical region.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
==History== [[File:Babimost, Kościół św. Wawrzyńca - fotopolska.eu (123631).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Baroque St. Lawrence Church]] The territory became a part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. The settlement probably arose about 1000 AD around a castellany located at a crossing through the swampy Leniwa Obra river. The estates were held by the Pomeranian Swienca family until 1307; together with nearby Sulechów, they were acquired by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg in 1319, who nevertheless died in the same year. By 1329, they were held by the Silesian duke Henry IV the Faithful, then a Bohemian vassal. Finally incorporated into the Polish Poznań Voivodeship in 1332 (which was later also part of the larger Greater Poland Province), Babimost received town privileges according to Magdeburg Law by King Władysław II Jagiełło in 1397. It was a royal town of Poland. King Sigismund the Old confirmed the town rights in 1530.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
After the Protestant Reformation, the population increased due to the influx of German-speaking refugees from Silesia. Oppressed by the Catholic Habsburg rule, they were granted religious freedom by Polish king John II Casimir Vasa.<ref name="transoderana">{{cite book |last1=Vogenbeck |first1=Bernd |last2=Tomann |first2=Juliane |last3=Abraham-Diefenback |first3=Magda |year=2008 |title=Terra Transoderana - Zwischen Neumark und Ziemia Lubuska |language=de|location=Berlin-Brandenburg |publisher=Bebra |isbn=9783937233505}}</ref> In the mid-17th century, the starost of Babimost was Krzysztof Żegocki, who during the Swedish invasion of Poland was the first to organize a guerrilla unit to fight the invading forces and became famous in the battles of Kościan and Jasna Góra, thus earning the title of the "First Partisan of the Commonwealth".<ref name="PZ">{{cite web |url=http://powiat-zielonogorski.pl/pl/Gminy/Babimost/Historia |title=Historia / Babimost |website=Powiat Zielonogórski - Starostwo Powiatowe w Zielonej Górze |language=pl|access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref> During the war, which was part of the Second Northern War, Babimost was devastated by Swedish troops in 1656. The reconstruction of a synagogue is documented around 1700, a Protestant church was erected in 1782. The inhabitants were mainly shoe manufacturers, linen producers and hop (beer) and wine producers.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Upon the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the town fell to Prussia. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by the Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it again passed to Prussia, and was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Posen. Prussians conducted a policy of Germanisation towards the local population.<ref name=PZ/> German was introduced in Polish schools, German colonists were settled to change the ethnic composition.<ref name=PZ/> Between 1818 and 1938 it was part of the ''Bomst'' district within the Prussian ''Regierungsbezirk Posen'', though the administrative seat was at Wollstein (Wolsztyn). When the town became part of the German Empire in 1871, it had 2,272 inhabitants, of whom 1,042 were Catholics (mostly Poles), 1,070 were Protestants (mostly Germans) and 160 Jewish. Despite attempts at Germanisation, Poles founded new organizations in the town, including an agricultural association (''Kółko Rolnicze''), People's Bank (''Bank Ludowy'') and the Catholic Association of Polish Youth (''Katolicki Związek Młodzieży Polskiej'').<ref name=PZ/> [[File:Obeliks w Parku w Babimoście..jpg|thumb|A memorial stone dedicated to the Greater Poland insurgents and heroes of the fight for liberation of the Babimost land until 1945]] After Poland regained independence in 1918, Poles from the town and the surrounding area actively joined the Greater Poland Uprising to rejoin the area with Poland.<ref name=PZ/> On January 24, 1919, the insurgents captured Babimost, but under the Treaty of Versailles the town remained within Germany.<ref name=PZ/> In the interwar period, the town lay on the border with the Second Polish Republic; remaining with the German province of Posen-West Prussia and from 1938 to 1945 as part of the Province of Brandenburg. The majority of the town's population was German-speaking, while up to a third of its residents were Poles. Attempts at Germanisation intensified, in response Poles set up private schools, gathered in theater groups and choirs, Polish press was spreading, and Polish organizations were active.<ref name=PZ/> In 1939, 1,950 inhabitants were registered as citizens of the town, of whom 600 were ethnic Polish. During the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, the Germans arrested several regional Polish activists (including local Polish leader Jan Cichy),<ref name=PZ/> who were then deported to Nazi concentration camps, and later also expelled several Polish families from the county.<ref name="MC">{{cite magazine |last=Cygański |first=Mirosław |year=1984 |title=Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związku Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939–1945 |url=http://www.archiwumpz.iz.poznan.pl/dlibra/info?forceRequestHandlerId=true&mimetype=application/pdf&sec=false&handler=pdf_browser&content_url=/Content/6129/C_II_472-C_II_473BP-1984_4-65.pdf |format=PDF |magazine=Przegląd Zachodni |language=pl|location=Opole |issue=4 |pages=49–50 |issn=0033-2437 |access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref>
After the Vistula–Oder Offensive of the Red Army in the late days of World War II, large parts of the town lay in ruins. In 1945, Babimost was reintegrated with Poland and its German inhabitants were to be expelled by the new administration in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement. However, with Polish and German ethnicities coexisting over centuries, no clear division between Poles and Germans could be made, so that the majority of those who were to be expelled, could stay by renouncing any German language and culture.<ref name=transoderana/>
==Transport== thumb|Babimost railway station Voivodeship roads 303, 304 and 313 pass through the town. There is a railway station in Babimost and the Zielona Góra Airport is located nearby.
==Demographics== {{Historical populations|align=left|cols=2|1843|2278|1871|2272|1880|2179|1890|2341|1900|2123|1910|2000|1925|1782|1939|2190|1950|1729|1960|2584|2010|4196 |source=<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Dokumentacja Geograficzna|volume=3/4|year=1967|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Geografii Polskiej Akademii Nauk|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|url=https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_l_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2010.pdf|title=Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r.|year=2011|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=61|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113152513/https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_l_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2010.pdf|archive-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>}} {{clear|left}}
==Sports== The local football club is Klon Babimost.<ref name="klon">{{cite web |url=http://klonbabimost.cba.pl/ |title=Oficjalna strona internetowa klubu piłkarskiego LKS Klon Babimost |publisher=Klon Babimost |language=pl |access-date=11 June 2020 |archive-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521174907/http://klonbabimost.cba.pl/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It competes in the lower leagues.
The local floorball club is Fenomen Babimost.
==International relations== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland}}
===Twin towns – sister cities=== See twin towns of Gmina Babimost.
==See also== {{Portal|Cities|Poland}} * Zielona Góra Airport
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Babimost}} * [http://bip.wrota.lubuskie.pl/ugbabimost/ Bulletin of Public Information] of Gmina Babimost * [http://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/b/439-babimost Jewish community of Babimost] on Virtual Shtetl
{{Gmina Babimost}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Cities and towns in Lubusz Voivodeship Category:Zielona Góra County