Location
Cedynia is the most in the west located town in Poland. It lays 25 km north-east from Bad Freienwalde (Germany) and 25 km south-west from
Chojna (Königsberg/Nm.), about 6 km. from Polish/German border in
Osinów Dolny
Cedynia is town about 1500 inhabitants.
On the west side of
Cedynia you can find flat polders. On the north and east there are wavy fields, on the morain terrain. On the south are located woods and heathlands.
History
It is one of the oldest settles in region.
Formerly
Cedynia was located on the side of Odra River, however in
XVIII century, the river was moved by constructors more to the west
and beetween
Cedynia and river now are located fields - polders, that
are below Odra surface, and are separated from Rivers by the dam.
In 1278 A.D. in
Cedynia was placed closter of Cistercians - womans closter - that came here from neighbourhood of
Trzcińsko Zdrój (Bad Schönfließ).
Closter was belonging to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kamień.
It was quite rich closter because many of its sisters was belonging to nobilities of Neumark, Uckermark and Pomerania.
From about 1356 town
Cedynia was belonging to closter (was owned by closter). Closter was terminated at 1555 A.D.
Cedynia never had defensive walls.
In 1930 A.D. was opened railway from
Cedynia to Freienwalde. Now the railway is not existing anymore. Only parts of rail embankment left.
In march 1940 the dams between
Odra and
Cedynia was broken and flood take over 55 homes and many manufactures, post offica and railway station.
Cedynia is known in Polish history as a place where in 24 june of 972
A.D. toke place the battle between Polish Prince Mieszko I and Hodo -
Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.
In 1945 in
Cedynia also took place very hard battles between Russian
Army supported by Polish artillery and German soldiers, bravely
defenced, before they were moved thru the
Odra .
Today
Cedynia is very nice, quiet town. It has quite many service facilities, targeted mostly to tourists from Germany.
In
Cedynia you can find many shops and hairdresser salones, and in located near by village
Osinów Dolny are located very big marketplace.
