Walenty Valentine WALIGORSKI

1856 - 1939

• BIRTH: 1856, Inowrocaw, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, PL
• IMMIGRATION: 1888
• BURIAL: St Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, In
• DEATH: 1939, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 1883, Inowrocaw, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, PL

1. +Casimir Theodore WALIGORSKI
2.  Theodore WALIGORSKI
3.  Leon WALIGORSKI
4.  Stanislawa WALIGORSKI
5.  Teofila WALIGORSKI

INDEX

[N8980] Name: Waligorski, Valentine / Walenty
Address: 1303 W. Sample St.
City: South Bend
State: IN
Notes:

Source Date Published Article Type Section and/or Page
South Bend Tribune 03/09/1937 2, p. 6

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Inowroclaw (German: Inowrazlaw) is a city in north-central Poland with a total population of 77,641 according to the 2004 Census. It is situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship (19751998).

Inowroclaw is an industrial town located about 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Bydgoszcz known for its saltwater baths and salt mines. The town is the 5th largest agglomeration in its voivodeship, and is a major railway junction, where the west-east line (Poznan' - Torun') crosses the Polish Coal Trunk-Line from Chorz©dw to Gdynia.

The town was first mentioned in 1185 as Novo Wladislaw, possibly in honor of Wladyslaw I Herman or after the settlers from W?oc?awek. Many inhabitants of Wloclawek settled in Inowroc?aw fleeing flooding. In 1236, the settlement was renamed Juveni Wladislawia. It was incorporated two years later by Casimir Conradowicz. From 1466 to 1772, Inowroc?aw was the capital of Poland's Inowroclaw Voivodeship, which covered northern Kuyavia. The town's development was aided by the discovery of extensive salt deposits in the vicinity during the 15th century.

Inowroclaw was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1772 during the First Partition of Poland and added to the Netze District (as German: Inowrazlaw before 1905, and in 1905-1920 and 1939-1945 Hohensalza; rarely Jung Breslau). The city was a headquarters for Napoleon Bonaparte during his invasion of Russia. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Inowroc?aw (as first Inowraclaw and later Inowrazlaw) was administered as part of Prussia - Grand Duchy of Posen. It flourished after the establishment of a railway junction in 1872 and a spa in 1875. The city and the region were renamed Hohensalza on December 5, 1904. It was electrified in 1908.

Following the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, the name Inowroc?aw was restored along with the return of the sovereign Polish state on January 10, 1920. High unemployment resulting from trade emgargos led to violent confrontations between workers and the police in 1926 and hunger strikes killed 20 in 1930. Inowroclaw was part of Poznan' Voivodeship until 1925, when it became an independent urban district. This district was briefly annexed to Great Pomerania during the reform of Polish regional administration just prior to World War II. Captured by the German 4th Army on September 11, 1939, Inowroclaw was again renamed Hohensalza and initially administered under the military district (Milit©Prbezirk) of Posen before being incorporated into Nazi Germany first as part of the reichsgau of Posen (1939) and then as part of Reichsgau Wartheland (1939-1945.) Between 1940 and 1945, Hohensalza was used as a resettlement camp for Poles and an internment camp for Soviet, French, and English POWs.

Inowroclaw returned to Poland and its original name following the arrival of the Soviet Red Army on January 21, 1945. The last German air raid occurred on April 4, 1945, when a single aircraft dropped four fragmentation bombs and fired on travelers waiting at the Inowroclaw train platform. Between 1950 and 1998, the town was part of Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, but the 1999 reforms left it part of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Population

[N21986] Posen Marriage DB
Catholic parish Inowroclaw [Inowrazlaw/Hohensalza], entry 19 / 1883
Valentinus Walig©drski (26 years old) 100%
Josepha Chodzin'ska (24 1/2 years old)