Wschowa (PL)

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Wschowa (German: Fraustadt) is a town (14,123 inhabitants end 2016) in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. It is the capital of Wschowa County.

The Battle of Fraustadt occurred at Wschowa on February 3, 1706 during the Great Northern War, when Swedish forces defeated a joint army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Saxony and Russia.

Within the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Wschowa was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and incorporated into the province of South Prussia, until in 1807 it was awarded to the Duchy of Warsaw according to the Treaty of Tilsit. A part of the Grand Duchy of Posen from 1815 on, the town was again incorporated into the Prussian Province of Posen in 1848.

Fraustadt was one of the few areas within Germany attacked by the Polish military during the Polish Defensive War in 1939 (or Polish Campaign'1939).

For a few hours its neighboring town of Geyersdorf was the first German town to be occupied by enemy forces in the war. The other notable attack was carried on the same day by one PZL.23B of the 21st Squadron; the factory in Ohlau was the first victim of bomb attack onto the German territory.

Fraustadt was occupied by Red Army in 1 February 1945. Since 1945 the area as a result of the 1945 Potsdam Conference belongs to Poland.

Independent Poland

Postmarks in Poland (1945 ..)

Postmarks in Empire of Germany

Covers and cards

Card from FRAUSTADT in 1921.

Postmarks in North German Confederation

Postmarks in Prussia Posen province (1848-1918)

The post office FRAUSTADT used a postal code 427, Kreis in district of Posen. The post office DRIEBITZ used a postal code 1973 and opened in October 1858 in this Kreis.

1973 in 1858ca.