Kępno

For other places with the same name, see Kępno.

Kępno

Town hall

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Kępno

Coordinates: 51°17′N 17°59′E / 51.283°N 17.983°E

Country

Poland

Area

• Total

7.8 km² (3.0 sq mi)

Population (2006)

• Total

14,710

• Density

1,900/km² (4,900/sq mi)

Postal code

63-600

Climate

Cfb

Website

http://www.um.kepno.pl

Kępno [ˈkɛmpnɔ] (German: Kempen in Posen) is a town in Poland. It lies on the outskirts of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, as it borders on Silesia and the Łódz Land. As of December 31, 2009 Kępno had a population of 14,760. One popular attraction in Kępno is the recently restored Rynek (market square).

History

Previously part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kępno was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1793 Second Partition of Poland. Administered within South Prussia from 1793–1807, it was part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw from 1807-1815. As Kempen, it was restored to Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna and administered within the Grand Duchy of Posen (until 1848) and the Province of Posen, within which it was the seat of the district Kempen in Posen. The town was a 19th-century shtetl.

On 17 January 1920, after World War I, it became part of the Second Polish Republic. Following the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Kępno was occupied by the Wehrmacht and annexed by Nazi Germany. It was renamed Kempen and administered as part of the county or district (kreis) of the same name within Reichsgau Wartheland. Red Army troops took the town on January 21, 1945 and with the end of the war, the town returned to Poland.

Kępno is the ancestral home of the writer Christopher Hitchens.

Notable residents

Wilhelm Freund (1806–1894), philologist
Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860), reform rabbi
Meir Lob ben Jehiel Michel Weiser, Malbim (1809–1879), rabbi
Hermann Aron (1845–1913), electrical engineer
Gustav Jacob Born (1851–1900), histologist
Edward Lasker (1885–1981), chess player
Eugen Rehfisch (1862–1937), physician
Witold Tomczak (born 1957), politician

Education

Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania "Edukacja" in Wrocław, branch in Kępno

Kępno County

Seat	Kępno

Urban-rural gmina	Gmina Kępno

Rural gminas	Gmina Baranów Gmina Bralin Gmina Łęka Opatowska Gmina Perzów Gmina Rychtal Gmina Trzcinica

Gmina Kępno

Town and seat	Kępno

Villages	Biały Młyn Borek Mielęcki Domanin Dziekania Hanulin Kierzenko Kierzno Kliny Krążkowy Mechnice Mikorzyn Myjomice Olszowa Osiny Ostrówiec Przybyszów Pustkowie Kierzeńskie Rzetnia Świba Szklarka Mielęcka Zosin

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Coordinates: 51°17′N 17°59′E / 51.283°N 17.983°E / 51.283; 17.983

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