Lubin

Infobox Settlement
name = Lubens


imagesize = 250px
image_caption = Town Hall

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image_shield = POL Lubin COA.svg
pushpin_

pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lower Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Lubin County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Lubin (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Robert Raczyński
established_title = Established
established_date = 12th century
established_title3 = City rights
established_date3 = 1295
area_total_km2 = 40.77
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 76595
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51 | latm = 24 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 16 | longm = 12 | longs = | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 59-300
area_code = +48 76
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = DLU
website = http://www.lubin.pl

Lubin [IPA-pl|'|l|u|b|i|n] ( _de. Lüben) is a town in south-western Poland, on the Zimnica River. As of the 2004 census, the town had a total population of 77,625.

Lubin is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975–1998 it was in the former Legnica Voivodeship). Lubin is the seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin (although it is not part of the territory of the latter, as the town forms a separate urban gmina).

The third-largest Polish corporation, KGHM Polska Miedź, has its headquarters in Lubin.

History

Lubin developed out of two historical settlements. According to legend the voivode Piotr Włostowic of Dunin (1080-1153) had the fieldstone church built on the hill in the west of Lubin, where about 1230 a castellany and a village arose that until today is called the "Old Town" ( _pl. Stary Lubin). This settlement was first mentioned under the Old Polish name of "Lubin" in a 1267 deed by Pope Clement IV as a fiefdom of Trzebnica Abbey. The New Town of what is today Lubin was probably founded about 1280 by German settlers, maybe from the Low Countries or Franconia, within the Duchy of Ścinawa. It obtained its city rights about 1295. From 1331 it belonged to the Bohemian crown and shared the political fortunes of Silesia. In 1742 it became a part of Prussia. In 1871 it was connected by rail to Legnica and Głogów. During World War II about 70% of the city's buildings were destroyed. In 1945 between the days of 8-10 February Red Army soldiers mass-murdered 150 pensioners in an old-people's home and 500 psychiatric hospital patients in Lubin [ [http://www.ipn.gov.pl/biuletyn/4/biuletyn4_51.html] Dead link|date=March 2008] . As a result of the decisions taken at the Potsdam Conference (1945), the city became a part of Poland and the German population was expelled and replaced by Poles, many of them expelees themselves from areas of eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1982 the town saw significant demonstrations against the martial law declared by the Communist regime, which were put down by security units, resulting in the deaths of three people [ [http://www.lubin82.pl/index.html Lubin 1982 - wydarzenia z 31 sierpnia 1982, stan wojenny, fotografie - Solidarność, historia współczesna, historia stanu wojennego, ZOMO, milicja, podziemie, władza ludowa, demonstracja, opozycja, Michał Adamowicz, Andrzej Trajkowski, Mieczysławie Poźniak, ofiary ] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951804,00.html Defiance in the Streets - TIME ] ] .

Education

* Uczelnia Zawodowa Zagłębia Miedziowego

ports

* Zagłębie Lubin - men's football team, champion of Poland in 1990/1991 and 2006/2007.
* Interferie Zagłębie Lubin - men's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Men's Handball League (champion of Poland in season 2006/2007) and women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League.

Transport

Roads:No. 3 (International E65) - Jakuszyce-Legnica-Lubin-Zielona Góra-Gorzów Wielkopolski-Szczecin-Świnoujście

No. 36 - Rawicz-Lubin-Prochowice(-Wrocław)

Lubin has an international airport with a 1000m concrete/asphalt runway.

References

External links

* [http://www.lubin.pl/ Official Lubin website]
* [http://galeria.lubin.pl/ Photo Gallery - Lubin and Zaglebie]
* [http://www.lubin82.pl/index_eng.html Lubin Iniquity 1982]
* [http://www.zaglebie-lubin.pl/ Zaglebie Lubin football club]