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Świnoujście (former German name Swinemünde) is a town in Pomerania, north-western Poland, situated on the islands of Uznam and Wolin with about 41,000 inhabitants (2004). It is also a county-status town in the West Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), and was previously in the Szczecin Voivodship (1975–1998).

Swinoujscie history

Świnoujście is divided by the Swina, a waterway connection between Szczecin and the Baltic Sea.

The river Swina was formerly flanked by the fishing villages of West and East Swina. Towards the beginning of the seventeenth century it was made navigable for large ships, and Swinoujscie, which was founded on the site of West Swina in 1748, was fortified and raised to the dignity of a town by Frederick the Great in 1765.

It served as the outer port of Szczecin, the city had broad unpaved streets and one-storey houses built in the Dutch style, whuch gave it an almost rustic appearance, although its industries, beyond some fishing, were entirely connected with its shipping. The entrance to the harbour, which was the canal of the Kaiserfahrt was opened to navigation, and this waterway between the Szczecin harbour and the Baltic Sea was deepened between 1900–1901. After this Szczecin could be directly reached by ships, and city's importance diminished somewhat.

On March 12, 1945, Swinoujscie suffered heavy destruction by US bombing. At least 23,000 people died, mainly refugees from East Prussia and from surrounding areas. US bombers specifically targeted Swinemünde because of the great number of refugees that had fled there. It was annexed into Poland after 1945, and as such is part of the German land lost east of the Oder-Neisse line.

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