Strzelno ' is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

-Transportation:Transportation infrastructure is of critical importance to the voivodeship's economy. Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node point in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz in order to reach the major ports on the Baltic Sea...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. The town is located 18 km (11.18 mi) south of Inowrocław. According to the June 2005 Census, the population numbered 12,486.

History

Establishment of the city is connected with the person of Piotr Włostowic, a duke of Bolesław III Wrymouth. He is considered the founder of the Church of St. Cross. In the eighties of the 12th century, in what was then the village Strzelno, a Norbertine nuns convent was founded. The monastery church originally bore the name church of St.Trinity, in later years the name was extended to St.Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Strzelno received city rights in 1231.

Features

The 12th century church of St Prokop, in the shape of a Roman rotunda, is considered to be one of the best preserved original churches in Poland.

Notable persons

Born in Strzelno:

• Albert Abraham Michelson
  Albert Abraham Michelson
  Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics...
  
   (1852–1931) - Nobel Award winning American physicist and scientist
• Ridley Haim Herschell
  Ridley Haim Herschell
  Ridley Haim Herschell was an Anglo-Polish minister who converted from Judaism to evangelical Christianity...
  
   (1807–1864) - evangelist.
• Jakub Cieślewicz (1846–1930) - medical doctor and social activist.
• Stanisław Gądecki (born in 1949) - archbishop of Poznań, deputy chairman of Polish Episcopal Conference
  Polish Episcopal Conference
  Polish Episcopal Conference is the central organ of Catholic Church in Poland. It is composed of 6 cardinals, 25 archbishops and 104 bishops.** President - abp Józef Michalik...
  
  

Sports

• football team - Kujawianka Strzelno
  Kujawianka Strzelno
  Międzyzakładowy Ludowy Klub Sportowy Kujawianka Strzelno is a football club from Strzelno, Poland. It was found in 1922.They're currently playing in Liga Okręgowa -References:*...
  
  
• junior handball
  Team handball
  Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
  
   team - Alfa Strzelno