Krajenka
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Krajenka (German: Krojanke) is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of Poland. It has 3,804 inhabitants (2005) and lies in Złotów County.
[edit] History
Krajenka became part of the Kingdom of Poland in 1343. The history of the town is strongly connected to the names of various Polish noble families: Danaborski, Kościelecki, Grudziński, Działyński, Sułkowski, and Komierowski. City rights were granted in 1420 by the Polish king Władysław Jagiełło.
In the period between 1772 and 1945, following the Partitions of Poland, Krajenka was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later Germany. In 1846 a Protestant church wasbuilt by the famous German architect Carl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1871 a railway station of the Prussian Eastern Railways (German: Preußische Ostbahn) was built south of the Glumia river. Krojanke then was the property of the Prussian prince Friedrich Leopold.
In 1945 the Soviet Red Army occupied the almost destroyed town during World War II; most of the inhabitants had fled during the winter of 1944/45. Because the town was granted to Poland in the Potsdam Conference, its remaining German population was expelled and replaced with Poles.
[edit] Historical population
1772: 900 inhabitants
1857: 2,061 inhabitants
1939: 3,233 inhabitants
1945: 150 inhabitants
1960: 3,100 inhabitants
[edit] Famous residents
Erich Wolfsfeld (* 1884), German painter
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