{"id":2521,"date":"2022-03-12T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zydzi-trzemeszno.pl\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2022-03-19T22:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:16:59","slug":"zarys-historii-spolecznosci-zydowskiej-w-trzemesznie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zydzi-trzemeszno.pl\/en\/historia-spolecznosci\/zarys-historii-spolecznosci-zydowskiej-w-trzemesznie\/","title":{"rendered":"An outline of the history of the Jewish community in Trzemeszno (Tremessen)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trzemeszno is a town located in the eastern part of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). Its history is inextricably linked with the monastery of Canons Regular, which has been here since the twelfth century (photo 1).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Photo 1. Basilica standing on the site of the former monastery of canons regular. (Source: photo by Ma\u0142gorzata van Brenk)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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For centuries, the city was the property of the monastery, and only Catholics could settle there. Changes in the national and religious structure of the Trzemeszno community took place only after the Second Partition of Poland (1793), when the town came under the rule of the King of Prussia (photo 2).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Photo 2. Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Market Square in Trzemeszno. (Source: postcard from the private collection of Rafa\u0142 Nawrocki)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The first Evangelicals appeared, and soon the Jews. Their presence in Trzemeszno was to be permanently inscribed in the history of the city for the next 150 years. We must, however, admit, that during the period of partitions Trzemeszno retained mainly Polish character, the vast majority of inhabitants were Poles, with no more than 30% of population being Evangelicals and Jews. It was a rarity in Wielkopolska, where over time the German and Jewish populations had increased.<\/p>

The first Jews settled in Trzemeszno at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1796, three Jews (out of 766 inhabitants) lived in the city. Their number soon grew rapidly: in 1843 - 413, in 1857 (with 6 villages) - 420 (82 families), in the years 1885-1887 - 350, and in 1905 - 169. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of Jews in Trzemeszno began to decline, in 1913 there were only 114[1]<\/sup><\/a>A. Heppner, I, Herzberg, Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Juden und der jued. Municipalities in the Pozna\u0144 Lands,<\/em>, Ko\u017amin- Bydgoszcz 1909, p. 991.<\/span><\/span>