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Payment | Shipping | Policies POLAND-Germany 1820 RARE Cover LISSA/Lezno to,Must LOOK Album Album Leszno , German : Lissa , between 1800 and 1918 also called Polnisch Lissa ) is a town in central Poland History Leszno was first mentioned in historical documents in 1393. The settlement was then the property of Stefan z Karnina of Clan Wieniawa . The family adopted the surname of Leszczyński from the name of their estate according to the medieval custom of the Polish nobility .In the early 16th century a community of Protestant Unity of the Brethren refugees from Bohemia settled in Leszno invited by the Leszczyński family, who were since 1473 imperial counts and had converted to Calvinism . The arrival of the Bohemian Protestants as well as weavers from nearby Silesia helped the settlement to grow and made it possible to became a town in 1547 by a privilege given by King Sigismund I the Old . Leszno was also the biggest printing center in Greater Poland thanks to the activity of the Protestant community, whose number increased because of inflow of German refugees from Silesia during the Thirty Years War . At the time it already had a Gymnasium school led for a period by Jan Amos Komenský (known in English as Comenius ), a Bohemian educator who was a bishop of the Unity of the Brethren . From 1638 to his death in 1647, Johann Heermann , a German-speaking poet, lived in Leszno. Between 1736 and 1639 the town became fortified and its area increased. The golden era of Leszno ended with a large fire in 1655. During the Great Northern War the town was burned again in 1707 by Russians and had a plague in 1709. The Leszczyński family owned the city until 1738 when king Stanisław Leszczyński sold it after he abdicated for the second time.During the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Leszno was annexed by Prussia and became part of Province of Posen as Lissa . The town took part in the Greater Poland Uprising (19181919) and was returned to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles on 1920 January 17. The local populace had to acquire Polish citizenship. The town was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939. The Polish population was resettled to the General Government . Most of the town's Jewish population (which in its history included such famous rabbis as Leo Baeck and Jacob of Lissa as well as the Polish-Jewish writer Ludwig Kalisch ) and remaining Poles were murdered by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen . After the defeat of Nazi-Germany the town returned to Poland in 1945. After the war, the city underwent a period of fast development especially between 1975 and 1998 when it was a seat of a voivodeship administrative area. In 2000 the city was awarded "The Golden Star of Town Twinning" prize by the European Commission . Very Low Start Price !!! Condition see photos. PayPal eBay's service to make fast, easy, and secure payments for your eBay purchases! Payment Back to Top I accept the following forms of payment: PayPal Shipping & Handling Back to Top USA shipping : $1.25 Any other place : $2.50 US Shipping $1.25 USPS First-Class Mail® International Shipping $2.50 USPS First-Class Mail International Policies Term & Conditions Back to Top Payments must be made not later than 7 days after auction end , unless other arrangements made. Buyers please note: We will NOT be responsible for lost/damaged shipments during the mail. If you want to be safe use registered/insured shippings otherwise the risk is at your side !!!! Shipping saving Back to Top You will receive shipping discount for multiple auctions winning. Return Policy Back to Top 7 days after item received . FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager. FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager. Over 100,000,000 served.... read more

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