Trzebiatów t is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship, , is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north...

, 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...

. As of June 2007, it has 10,196 inhabitants.

It was in Pomerania, Germany until 1945.

Trzebiatów's Day of the Cereal is a celebration during the first week of August. It is a memorial to day when the town guard by mistake dropped a bowl of cereal on invaders from the nearby town of Gryfice

Gryfice

Gryfice is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland with 16 632 inhabitants . It is the capital of Gryfice County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship , previously in Szczecin Voivodeship .-History:...

, alarming whole town and saving it. Inhabitants of Trzebiatów celebrate that event with dances, concerts, competitions and eating of cereal with ham and bacon.

People

• Johannes Bugenhagen
  Johannes Bugenhagen
  Johannes Bugenhagen , also called Doctor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. Among his major accomplishments was organization of Lutheran churches in Northern Germany and Scandinavia...
  
   (1505–1521), Pomeranian reformer, rector at Treptow city school
• Johannes Aepinus
  Johannes Aepinus
  Johannes Aepinus was a German Protestant theologian, the first Lutheran superintendent of Hamburg.-Life:He was born at Ziesar or Ziegesar, north-east of Magdeburg, in the march of Brandenburg. He was under the instruction of Johannes Bugenhagen...
  
  , theologian and reformer
• Jürgen Pavels in 1612 became Lübeck Ratsherr
• Frederick I of Württemberg
  Frederick I of Württemberg
  Frederick I William Charles of Württemberg was the first King of Württemberg. He was known for his size: at and about , he was in contrast to Napoleon, who recognized him as King of Württemberg.-Biography:...
  
   (1754–1816), King of Württemberg
• Louis of Württemberg (1756–1817), Duke of Württemberg
• Ferdinand Friedrich August of Württemberg (1763- ), Duke of Württemberg
• Johann Gustav Droysen
  Johann Gustav Droysen
  Johann Gustav Droysen was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men...
  
   (1808–1884), historian
• Ferdinand von Arnim
  Ferdinand von Arnim
  Ferdinand von Arnim was a German architect and watercolour-painter. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Ludwig Persius who mainly worked in Berlin and Potsdam....
  
   (1814-1866), architect
• Peter Friedrich Arnd (1817-1866), mathematician
• Marcus Kalisch
  Marcus Kalisch
  Marcus Kalisch was a Jewish scholar born in Treptow, Pomerania, and died in Derbyshire, England.He was educated at Berlin University, where he studied classics, philology, and the Semitic languages, and at the Rabbinical College of Berlin...
  
   (1828–1885), Jewish scholar
• August Zillmer (1831-1893), actuary
• Günther von Krosigk (1860-1938), admiral
• D. Paul Kalmus (1864- ), Generalsuperintendent of Pomerania (Ostsprengel)
• August Horneffer (1875-1955), philologian

Twinning cities

The sister cities of Trzebiatów are: Grevesmühlen

Grevesmühlen

Grevesmühlen is a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. It is the capital of the Nordwestmecklenburg district. It is situated 33 km east of Lübeck, and 29 km northwest of Schwerin.-History:...

, Germany Istebna

Istebna

is a large village and the seat of Gmina Istebna, Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. The village is situated in the Silesian Beskids mountain range, near to the borders with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia...

, Poland Sjöbo

Sjöbo

Sjöbo is a locality and the seat of Sjöbo Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 6,364 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Sjöbo started growing when it became a halt on the railway between Malmö and Simrishamn in the early 20th century...

, Sweden Wandlitz

Wandlitz

Wandlitz is a municipality in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 25 km north of Berlin, and 15 km east of Oranienburg...

, Germany