Gryfino

Gryfino [ɡrɨˈfʲinɔ] (German: Greifenhagen; Low German: Gripenhagen) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with 21,393 inhabitants (2017). It is also the capital of Gryfino County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Szczecin Voivodeship (1975–1998).

Gryfino
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Flag of Gryfino
Flag
Coat of arms of Gryfino
Coat of arms
Gryfino is located in Poland
Gryfino
Gryfino
Coordinates: 53°15′11″N 14°29′15″E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipWest Pomeranian
CountyGryfino County
GminaGmina Gryfino
Government
 • MayorMieczysław Sawaryn
Area
 • Total9.58 km2 (3.70 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total21,393
 • Density2,200/km2 (5,800/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
74-100
Car platesZGR
Websitewww.gryfino.pl

The town is located on the Odra Wschodnia, the eastern branch of the Oder river, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Szczecin in Poland. The western branch of the Oder, 2 km (1 mi) away from the town center, marks the border with Germany. There is a direct road link between Gryfino and the German town of Mescherin across the river.

The Crooked Forest is located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo, just outside Gryfino.

History

The settlement, then German, was originally called Greifenhagen. It was built in 1230, and was raised to the rank of a town and fortified about 1250. In the Thirty Years' War it was taken both by the Holy Roman Empire and the Swedish Empire, and in 1675 it was captured by the Brandenburgers, into whose possession it came finally in 1679.[1]

In 1945, the town and its region became Polish and was renamed Gryfino from the original Greifenhagen by replacing the German suffix -hagen by the Polish suffix -ino.[2]

Demographics
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1875 6,759—    
1890 6,692−1.0%
1925 8,184+22.3%
19399,855+20.4%
19605,300−46.2%
19707,400+39.6%
197510,800+45.9%
198015,300+41.7%
199021,000+37.3%
199522,100+5.2%
200422,500+1.8%
Source: verwaltungsgeschichte.de

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Gryfino is twinned with:

Towns near Gryfino

Notable people

See also

References
  1. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Greifenhagen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. Manfred Niemeyer (2012). Deutsches Ortsnamenbuch. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 219.
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