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As a result of the decision of the Treaty of Versailles, in the period 1920–1939 Grudziądz was located relatively close to the border with the German Reich, or more specifically with its part – East Prussia. This article presents the situation at the territories of Grudziądz and its surroundings in the last months before the outbreak of the Second World War. In this area, there were Polish garrisons in Grudziądz (one of the two main garrisons in Pomerania), Chełmno, and Świecie. Their headquarters were responsible for the general organization of sevice and military life in a given town and subordinate area. They prepared a number of documents. Among them there were safety reports, which were sent to the Corps District Command no. VIII (Dowództwo Okręgu Korpusu) in Toruń. Only a part of them has been preserved in the archives. Despite the incompletness of the collection, the reports, which are currently kept in the Corps District Command no. VIII, in the Military Historical Office (Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne) – Central Military Archives (Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe) in Warsaw – Rembertów, constitute an interesting picture of the social situation and partly the military one that prevailed in the last months of peace before the outbreak of the Second World War. In this article, the messages from the reports are analyzed and ordered, and their selection is presented in the consecutive four sections. They concern border movements on the German side north of Grudziądz, the activities of German organizations and attitudes of Germans, Polish moods as well as accidents and incidents of different kinds.
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Rev. Wojciech Zawacki was born in Łasin in 1964. After graduating from the Higher Theological Seminary in Pelplin, he was ordained a priest in 1990. As a vicar, he worked in three parishes: in Papowo Biskupie (1990–1993), Grudziądz (1993–1998) and Toruń (1998–2005). During the course of his priestly ministry, he held a number of positions at decanal and diocesan level. For many years he was priest of the liturgical service in the Diocese of Toruń and a member of the Diocesan Liturgical Commission. He served for many years as chaplain to the voluntary fire brigades of the Grudziadz district, chaplain to farmers in both Grudziadz deaneries and as a catechisation visitor. In 2005, he became parish priest at the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mokre. Five years later he was honoured with the dignity of canon of the Grudziądz Collegiate Chapter. He died after a serious illness in 2020.
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The article aims to provide the description of the city and fortress that was presented in an extensive encyclopedia entry “Грауденцъ” (Grudziądz) in the Volume 8 of Военная энциклопедия (“Encyklopedia wojskowa”), published in 1912 in Pe-tersburg. “Военная энциклопедия” was issued between 1911–1915 and remained unfinished due to the Great War and October Revolution (1917). The initiator of the encyclopedia was Василий Фёдорович Новицкий, the then Colonel of the General Staff of the Russian Empire. The books were issued by his publishing company Иван Д. Сытин. The Volume 8 of the encyclopedia, containing the entry “Грауденцъ” at the pages 456–457, was edited by General К.И. Величко, Colonel В.Ф. Новицкаго, Colonel А.В. фонъ-Шварца, Colonel В.А. Апушкина and Captain 2nd rank Г.К. фонъ-Шульца. The entries of that volume cover “Г” (“G”) and “Д” (“D”), in accordance with the Russian alphabet. The description of the city of Grudziądz included in the entry was relatively short. The authors of the volume dedicated some space to the blockade and siege of 1807, as the events were directly linked with the fortress (a later citadel of the whole defensive complex). The greatest attention was paid to the presentation of the defensive buildings. One must take into consideration the fact that the Vol-ume 8 was published two years before the outbreak of the Great War, so naturally the description can’t have covered the yet non-existent fortifications, built as a result of mobilization enlargement of the fortress. The entry is equipped with the bibliography. The main part of the article presents the translation of the entry. As the text indicates, the Grudziądz fortress, as many others, was hardly a secret to Russians, whose agents regularly gathered information. In certain instances the text is peculiarly detailed. Obviously, not all information possessed by Russians were accurate and true. Nevertheless, such a detailed knowledge of German fortresses at lower Vistula surely influenced the decisions of the Russian staff in the first months of the Great War. The article is complemented by two original figures which were added to the encyclopedia entry. The figures depict the city location in relation to other cities in the region as well as schematic location of the defensive buildings.
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Rocznik Grudziądzki is a regional scientific journal of an interdisciplinary nature. The journal has a long tradition. The first volume was published in 1960. During the 62 years of its existence, a total of 30 volumes have been published. The wide thematic scope of Rocznik Grudziądzki entails the publication of texts from many different scientific disciplines – history, archaeology, art history or ethnology. In accordance with the established convention, each volume primarily approaches local history from different angles, therefore, the texts concern Grudziądz, the area of Chełmno Land and its surroundings, only exceptionally referring to further away areas. As a result, the position of Rocznik Grudziądzki as a local journal is very strong in the region. It should be noted that from the very beginning the journal has had a scientific character, and its establishment was a great contribution to the development of historiography – a breakthrough in the study of the history of Grudziądz. Since 2012, Rocznik Grudziądzki has been included in the list of highly ranked journals of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (now the Ministry of Education and Science). The journal is also indexed in several scientific platforms and databases internationally. Rocznik Grudziądzki is also of great interest to non-professional researchers and other groups of readers. Therefore, the journal also plays an important role of not only disseminating, but also popularising the results of research into the broadly understood history of the town.
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Coins, banknotes and medals in the collections of the Numismatic Cabinet of the Rev. Dr Władysław Łęga Museum in Grudziądz have for many decades remained an unexplored subject in the scientific literature. Among all items, it is the collection of paper money that occupies a significant, yet underestimated place. In the group of banknotes, the paper token money are the most numerous. This problem has not been very popular in Poland for many decades. It was not until the turn of the 20th and 21st c. that a new approach to this subject has been undertaken. Only recently the substitute media of exchange, used as regular money, have been appreciated by researchers and have become the main theme of numismatic catalogues and museum exhibitions. This sketch is intended to be a contribution to a wide field of research on the numismatic collections of the Grudziądz Museum; hence, it is focused on the token money from Kuyavia and Pomerania. It is a continuation of the already undertaken studies. Additionally, the topic coincides with the celebration of the centenary of the return of these areas to the reborn Polish state. The token money in Pomerania and Kuyavia stored in the Grudziądz Museum were issued by the local self-governments of 24 towns and/or counties as well as military commands of three prisoner-of-war camps for soldiers of the Entente. They date back to almost ten-year period of disturbances of money circulation in Europe (1914–1924).
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The article provides a detailed insight into the origins of Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr’s Parish in Grudziądz, on the estate Rządz. The parish is one of the youngest in the city. The aim is to depict very interesting and uneasy – though there was no military conflict at that time – history of its origin. The main part of the article is preceded by an introduction, short characteristics of source material and concise presentation of two deaneries of Grudziądz and the parishes that constitute them. The basic part of the text is divided into three elements: the initial efforts to establish the parish on the estate Rządz in the 1981–1984. The second part presents particular data concerning the subsequent two years of the history of the origin of the new church administrative unit. The last part shows the events and decisions that were made in 1987, when the pastoral center was established and, furthermore, the independent parish was erected. The article shall be treated as a contribution to the research on the topic of other new parishes of Grudziądz.
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Although the Republic of Poland formally regained its independence in November 1918, this was only the beginning of the efforts and struggles for the final shape of its borders. Pomerania was one of the areas that remained part of the German Reich for over a year. Most of this region before the partitions, as Royal Prussia, remained under the sovereign power of the Polish king. As a result of the Paris Peace Conference, convened after the end of the Great War, part of this area was granted to the Republic. The incorporation of the lands granted to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles (including part of Pomerania) in early 1920 was officially referred to as „occupation”. The meaning of the term was different at the time. It was characterized by much less pejorative connotations than it was established during the subsequent World War II. This article presents the preparations for the above-mentioned „occupation”, the projects for its introduction and the circumstances of the course of action. Particular attention has been paid to selected aspects, especially the reactions of the civilian population (Polish and German) to the presence in Pomerania of Polish troops, that occupied the designated areas according to the established plan, although not entirely in a bloodless manner. The then-understanding of the term „occupation” was characterized separately. The selection of the problems discussed in the article results from the fact that they are not – contrary to appearances – widely known, although such a view may be provided by the already numerous literature on the recovery of Pomerania.
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In 2017, Zbigniew Zawadzki, a distinguished Grudziądz citizen, died. He was a well-known and respected collector of various types of historical memorabilia. He possessed, among others, a huge collection of old postcards and photographs of Grudziądz, including rare and extremely valuable historical objects. In the middle of 2017, according to his will, most of the collection was handed over by his wife, Janina Zawadzka, as a gift to the Grudziądz Museum. Zbigniew Zawadzki was not only an expert and enthusiast of iconographic objects. In his rich collections he also had numismatic objects, as well as numerous medals. From these two groups, as many as 450 items of various types were donated to the Grudziądz Museum, which were included in the collection of monuments kept by the Numismatic Cabinet, a separate organizational unit operating in the structures of the Department of History. Among the gifts we can distinguish the following: the Austrian replacement hellers from 1919–1921, paper replacement money from Grudziądz and the Grudziądz district from 1917–1920, vouchers of the POW camp in Grudziądz from 1918, Polish securities – stocks and bonds, as well as medals related to the city. In this text, the author presents the aforementioned gift of numismats and medals, which – especially the banknotes – is an extremely substantial enrichment of the paper money collection of the Numismatic Cabinet. The article was completed with a full list of numismats and medals from the Zbigniew Zawadzki collection.
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Leon Pełka was born on April 11, 1886 in Kruszyny (Brodnica district). During his education in middle school in Chojnice, in the years 1899–1906 he became involved in the activities of a secret philomath organization. In 1906, he passed his matura exam (school leaving examination) and was admitted to the Theological Seminary in Pelplin. He also studied at the University of Würzburg. His education and forming years finished with his ordination to the priesthood on April 4, 1911. He bagan his pastoral work as a vicar in Gdańsk, first in the Royal Chapel in the Main Town, then in the parish in Wrzeszcz. Then he served in Kościerzyna where he was also a prefect of the local Teachers’ Seminar. In 1914, he worked as a teacher in the Teachers’s Seminar in Wałcz. During the Great War, her served as a chaplain in the army of the German Empire. After demobilization, he returned to Wałcz and took the position of the head of the seminar, where he had previously taught. He managed the post until the beginning of 1920, from where he moved to Grudziądz, which was already Polish. At the beginning of April, he became the head of Stanisław Staszic Teachers’ seminar. He significantly contributed to the development of this post, which he manager until 1928. In 1928, for half a year he was the administrator of the parish of st. James in Toruń, and then he became a parson of Maria Magdalena parish in Kurzęstnik, where he served for over ten years. On January 1, 1939, Fr. Leon became the parson in St. Marcin parish in Świekatowo. After the outbreak of the war, he was arrested on October 22, and at the beginning of November he was shot dead in Mniszek near Górna Grupa.
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