Lauenburg in Pommern

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Lauenburg in Pommern is a historic town in the former Prussian province of Pomerania, now known as Lębork in northern Poland.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lauenburg in Pommern canonical 2
Landkreis Lauenburg in Pommern 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former municipality
historic town
changedSovereigntyAfter World War II
country Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
currentAdministrativeRole county seat of Lębork County
formerAdministrativeCenterOf Lauenburg in Pommern self-linksurface differs
surface form: Landkreis Lauenburg in Pommern
germanNameOf Lębork
grantedTownRightsInCentury 14th century
hasHeritage Gothic church architecture
medieval urban layout
historicalRegion Pomerania
historicalSovereign Brandenburg-Prussia
Duchy of Pomerania
German Empire
Kingdom of Poland
surface form: Kingdom of Poland (as Lębork–Bytów land, intermittent)

Nazi Germany
Teutonic Order
surface form: Teutonic Order (nearby influence region)

Weimar Republic
languageHistoricallySpoken German
Kashubian
Polish
locatedIn German Empire
surface form: Germany (historical)

Pomeranian Voivodeship
Province of Pomerania
Prussia
northern Poland
locatedNear Baltic Sea
locatedOnRiver Łeba River
nearbyMajorCity Gdańsk
Słupsk
partOf Royal Prussia
surface form: Royal Prussia (in some historical periods as Lauenburg–Bütow Land)
polishName Lębork
post1945Country Poland
postWarPopulationChange German population largely expelled after 1945
resettled by Poles from other regions after 1945
presentDayCountry Poland
presentDayName Lębork
regionType Kashubia region
surface form: Kashubia (border area)
transportConnection located on major road and rail routes between Gdańsk and Słupsk

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Edward Sapir placeOfBirth Lauenburg in Pommern
Lauenburg in Pommern formerAdministrativeCenterOf Lauenburg in Pommern self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Landkreis Lauenburg in Pommern
Lębork hasGermanName Lauenburg in Pommern