Lębork (German Lauenburg) is a town (town 1341) on the rivers Leba and Okalica in Middle Pomerania region, north-western Poland with some 37,000 inhabitants. It is also capital of Lebork County in Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously in Slupsk Voivodship (1975-1998). Events Petrarch becomes famous Beginning of the Breton War of Succession over the control of the Duchy of Brittany Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, expells her husband John Henry of Bohemia, to whom she had been married as a child. ... Łeba is the name of the river in Middle Pomerania, Poland, that goes to Łebsko lake and later on to Baltic sea. ... Middle Pomerania is a geographical and historical region in the middle of Pomerania in northern Poland, between Western and Eastern Pomerania. ... The Pomeranian Voivodship (in Polish województwo pomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in northern Poland within the historic region of Eastern Pomerania. ... Slupsk Voivodship - (Polish: województwo słupskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, previously part of Szczecin Voivodship (1945-1950) and Koszalin Voivodship (1950-1975), superseded by Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999). ...

History

Together with Bytów, Lębork was the capital of county that was included to Western Pomerania or Pomerania depending on situation. Traditionally Kashub population, partly converted into protestant faith and thus became Slovincy. After the Treaty of Bydgoszcz in 1657 it was granted to Friedrich Wilhelm as a hereditary fief. In 1773 it was directly incorporated into Prussia. Bytow Castle Bytów is a town in Middle Pomerania region, northwestern Poland, with 17,700 inhabitants. ... West Pomeranian voivodship since 1999 West Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze Zachodnie, German: West Pommern; Latin Pomerania Occidentalis) or West Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish: województwo zachodniopomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in the northwestern part of Poland. ... Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze, German: Pommern and Pommerellen, Lithuanian Pamarė, Pomeranian (Kashubian): Pòmòrze and Pòmòrskô, Latin: Pomerania, Pomorania) is a geographical and historical region in northern Poland and Germany on the south coasts of the Baltic Sea between and on both sides of the Vistula and Oder (Odra) rivers, reaching the... Kashubians (also Kassubians, or Cassubians, in Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Slovincian is an extinct dialect of the Pomeranian language, spoken between the lakes Gardno and Lebsko in Pomerania. ... The Treaty of Bydgoszcz was a political act signed by the King of Poland Jan Kazimierz and the prince-elector of Brandenburg Frederick William I in the city of Bydgoszcz on November 6, 1657. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg. ... Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a vassal knights service (usually fealty, military service, and security). ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Kingdom of Prussia existed from 1701 until 1918, and from 1871 was the leading kingdom of the German Empire, comprising in its last form almost two-thirds of the area of the Empire. ...

Lębork was a location for the German concentration camp Lauenburg that was a subcamp of the concentration camp Stutthof. Stutthof, commonly refers to the Stutthof concentration camp complex built near the town of Sztutowo, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Sztutowo (called by the Germans Stutthof) itself. ...

Famous people born in Lauenburg/Lębork

• Erich von dem Bach - SS officer
• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - pioneer of television.

Erich von dem Bach, born Erich von Zelewski and also known as Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (March 1, 1899 - March 8, 1972) was a Nazi official and member of the SS with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. ... Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (August 22, 1860 - August 24, 1940) was a German engineer, who devised a mechanical apparatus, a spinning disk to scan images that was used in early television. ...

Population

1900: 10,442 inhabitants
1910: 13,916 inhabitants
1925: 17,161 inhabitants
1933: 18,962 inhabitants
1939: 19,114 inhabitants
1950: ? inhabitants
1960: 21.200 inhabitants
1970: 25.100 inhabitants
1975: 26.600 inhabitants
1980: 29.200 inhabitants
1990: 34,300 inhabitants
1995: 36,300 inhabitants
1998: 37,000 inhabitants
2000: ? inhabitants