Lobez

Lobez is located on the site of an old Slavic village founded in the tenth century. The city was founded in the 13th century by the knight von Bork. The knights, who moved from the vicinity of Kolobrzeg , gave the city the name "Lobez" around 1295. In the fourteenth century a mayor and city council appeared near the city, and then a wall was destroyed around the city, which was destroyed in the 18th century. In 1460 he received his own court. The Vorek family built the castle in, which lasted until the eighteenth century. In the XVII century the city was subordinate to Brandenburg , then Prussia , from 1871 to the German Empire , from 1933 to the Third Reich .

During World War II , there were two POW camps in Lobez, in which there were Poles, Russians and French working in the city and in the surrounding villages. On the night of March 3, 1945, Lobez was liberated by the Red Army , partisans and Polish troops after heavy fighting with the local Hitler Youth unit - the Jagdkommandos, armed mainly with Panzerfaust hand grenade launchers.

In the battles for Lobez participated:

• The 44th Guards Tank Brigade of the 1st Tank Army of the First Belorussian Front under the command of twice Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Joseph Gusakovsky .
• The partisan detachment, which included Poles and fighters of other nationalities (Russians, French and Serbs) who fled from nearby concentration camps.
• Polish 43rd artillery regiment under the command of Major Ilya Sadovsky.

City Name History

The first sources claim that the name of the city was: Lobis (1271), Lobese (1280), Lobse (1285). Polish historians believe that the city got its name from the Old Slavic name of reeds or the river over which the city is located (laba, lobose, łabuź). German historians believe that the name of the city comes from the word swan ( Old Slavonic : labez, labendz). The current name of the city Łobez was officially established on May 19, 1946 ^[2] .

Lobez is a large intermediate station on the Szczecin - Gdansk line.

Both long-distance trains and commuter trains run to Koszalin, Stargard, Szczecin, Novograd, etc.

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  Church - XV century

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  Historic house - at the beginning of the 20th century

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  Historic house - at the beginning of the 20th century

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  Half-timbered houses with a building - at the beginning of the 19th century

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  Monument to the soldiers of the Polish and Red Army, who fell in the battles for the land of Lobez

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  the main street

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  Honor Guard - 03.03.2009

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  Monument to the soldiers of the Red Army and the Polish Army who died in the vicinity of Lobez (Łobez - Świętoborzec)

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  Lapidarium for former residents of the city of Lobez (Germans)

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  City Council

Lobez is a twin city of the following cities:

•   Affing (1997)
•   Kėdainiai (2002)
•   Paykuse (2003)
•   Svalyov (2000)
•   Vic (2008)
•   Gucha (2010)
•   Istra (city) (2011)

• Zbigniew Harbuz: Kalendarium ziemi i powiatu łobeskiego , Łabuź, Łobez 2007, ISSN 1509-6378.
• Z dziejów ziemi łobeskiej - praca zbiorowa pod redakcją Tadeusza Białeckiego , Instytut Zachodniopomorski, Szczecin 1971.

• City official page
• Lobez night - YouTube
• Tourist information