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Torzym

Coordinates: 52°18′46″N 15°4′40″E / 52.31278°N 15.07778°E

Country

Poland

Area

• Total

9.11 km² (3.52 sq mi)

Population (2006)

• Total

2,456

• Density

270/km² (700/sq mi)

Postal code

66-235

Website

http://www.torzym.pl

Torzym [ˈtɔʐɨm] (German: Sternberg in der Neumark) is a small town in Sulęcin County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is the administrative seat of the urban-rural Gmina Torzym.

Torzym is is situated on the Ilanka creek, a right tributary of the Oder, in the historic Neumark region. The town centre is located about 36 km (22 mi) east of the border with Germany at Słubice. Torzym station is a stop on the Warsaw–Kunowice railway line. The town also has access to the parallel A2 autostrada, part of the major European route E30, at the Torzym junction.

The settlement arose in the mid 13th century, after Lubusz Land had been sold by the Silesian duke Bolesław II Rogatka to the Archbishops of Magdeburg in 1248. Located on the trade route from Frankfurt (Oder) to Poznań in Greater Poland, a fortress at the site was probably named after Konrad von Sternberg, Prince-Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1266 until 1277. In 1287, the Magdeburg archbishop Eric of Brandenburg gave the estates in pawn to his elder brothers, the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg. Under Brandenburg rule, the whole area east of the Oder river from about 1300 was called "Sternberg Land" (Sternberger Land) and became the nucleus of the larger Neumark region.

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