Rzepin

Church

Coat of arms

Rzepin

Coordinates: 52°21′N 14°50′E / 52.350°N 14.833°E

Country

Poland

Government

• Mayor

Andrzej Skałuba

Area

• Total

11.42 km² (4.41 sq mi)

Elevation

50 m (160 ft)

Population (2011)

• Total

6,697

• Density

590/km² (1,500/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

69-110

Car plates

FSL

Website

http://www.rzepin.pl/

Rzepin [ˈʐɛpʲin] (German: Reppen) is a town in north-western Poland with 6,697 inhabitants (2011). Situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship (since 1999), in Słubice County it is a seat of the urban-rural Rzepin Gmina. From 1975 until 1998 the town, from an administrative point of view, belonged to the Gorzów Wielkopolski Voivodeship. According to the census from 1 January 2011, the town was inhabited by 6697 people.

The town is situated in the western part of the Lubusz Lake District and Torzymska Plain (315.43), in the longitudinal postglacial valley.

The Ilanka river, which is the right-bank tributary of the Oder river, flows through the town and takes the tributary Rzepin to the south of the town, near Nowy Młyn. One of Ilanka’s hydrological curiosities is the phenomenon of bifurcation, due to which to the north of Rzepin, the river separates its stream. As a result, some waters flow in the Łęczna river to the Warta drainage. Rzepin surroundings is rich in glacial lakes, among others: Busko, Długie- local bathing beach, Głębiniec, Linie, Lubińskie, Oczko, Papienko (Popienko) and Rzepsko.

The town was founded in the place of a 10th-century fort and a craftsmen settlement outside the fort, which was located near a convenient crossing of the Ilanka river. The oldest record about Rzepin dates back to 1297 and it regards the presence of pleban de Repin (Repin’s parson) Iacobus Craft at a ceremony of granting the village of Wystok to the Paradyż monastery. In 14th and 15th century the town was defined with a ‘New’ suffix, which could signify its new location or new town charter: 28 July 1329 - Newen Reppin, 1335 – Nyen Rypin, 1441 – Nyen Reppen. The grad was possibly transferred into a more convenient place because the remains of an earlier grad upon the Ilanka river, between Tarnawa Rzepińska and Starościn, survived until our times. The names Reppin or Reppen appear in the German literature, while Rypin or Rzepin can be found in the Polish sources. In 1437 the name Stat Kleynen Reppin appeared once more, however an attempt to call the town ‘little’ was unsuccessful. Since the mid-15th Century, its name was written without the adjective. After World War II, during a short period of time, the town was called Rypin Lubuski, whereas since the late 1940s the current form has been used. It also became the county town (Rzepin County with its seat in Słubice).

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