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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sieraków
| image_skyline = ZespółKlasztorny.jpg
| image_caption = Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the Bernardine monastery
| image_shield = POL Sieraków COA.svg
| image_flag = POL Sieraków flag.svg
| image_blank_emblem = LOGO SIERAKOW.svg
| blank_emblem_type = [[Wordmark]]
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Greater Poland Voivodeship|name=Greater Poland}}
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Międzychód County|Międzychód]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Sieraków|Sieraków]]
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Witold Bruno Maciołek
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 13th century
| established_title3 = Town rights
| established_date3 = before 1388
| area_total_km2 = 14.1
| population_as_of = 2012
| population_total = 8768
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|52|39|0|N|16|6|0|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| elevation_m = 31
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 64-410
| area_code = +48 61
| registration_plate = PMI
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW133-PL.svg|32px]] [[File:DW150-PL.svg|32px]] [[File:DW182-PL.svg|32px]] [[File:DW198-PL.svg|32px]]
| website = http://www.sierakow.pl
}}
'''Sieraków''' ({{IPA|pl|ɕɛˈrakuf}}) is a town in western [[Poland]] with 8,768 inhabitants (2012). Located by the [[Warta River]], it is situated in the [[Międzychód County]] in the [[Greater Poland Voivodeship]]. Sieraków is known as a holiday destination with well-developed tourism and sport infrastructure. It is surrounded by extensive areas of forest and lakes, including the [[protected area]] called [[Sieraków Landscape Park]].
== History ==
[[File:Sierakow 1973 (3).jpg|thumb|left|Sieraków in 1973]]
As part of the region of [[Greater Poland]], i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. It was a [[private town]], administratively located in the Poznań County in the [[Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)|Poznań Voivodeship]] in the [[Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Greater Poland Province]] of the Kingdom of Poland.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany|year=2017|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Historii [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Polskiej Akademii Nauk]]|page=1a}}</ref>
During the [[Second Partition of Poland]] in 1793, Sieraków, under its Germanized name ''Zirke'' was annexed by the [[Kingdom of Prussia]]. Following the successful [[Greater Poland uprising (1806)|Greater Poland uprising]] of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived [[Duchy of Warsaw]]. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia. The local population was subjected to [[Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions|Germanisation]] policies. In 1871, it also became part of [[German Reich|Germany]] and was located in the [[Kreis Birnbaum|Birnbaum district]] in the Prussian [[Province of Posen]]. According to the census of 1871, the town had a population of 2,527, of which 1,130 (44.7%) were [[Polish people|Poles]].<ref name=gn>{{Cite book|last=Neumann|first=Gustav|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mx5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA143|title=Das Deutsche Reich in geographischer, statistischer und topographischer Beziehung|date=1874|publisher=Müller|language=de}}</ref>
The town was captured by Polish insurgents in the [[Greater Poland uprising (1918–1919)|Greater Poland uprising]] in 1919 and was subsequently assigned to the [[Second Polish Republic]] through the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. During [[World War II]] in 1939, the town was occupied by [[Nazi Germany]] and was annexed as part of the Birnbaum district in [[Reichsgau Wartheland]]. In 1939–1940, the occupiers carried out [[Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|expulsions of Poles]], whose houses were then handed over to [[Germans|German]] colonists as part of the ''[[Lebensraum]]'' policy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2017|title=Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|pages=153, 194|isbn=978-83-8098-174-4}}</ref> The [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]] was active in the town. The leader of the local unit of the [[Grey Ranks]] was arrested by the [[Gestapo]] in 1943 and sent to prisons in [[Poznań]] and eventually to the [[Mauthausen concentration camp]] where he died in 1944.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945|year=1998|location=Poznań|language=pl|publisher=Instytut Zachodni|page=279|isbn=83-85003-97-5}}</ref> Towards the end of the war in 1945, it was captured by the [[Red Army]] and was restored to Poland.
In 1975–1998, it was administratively located in the [[Poznań Voivodeship]].
==Demographics==
{{Historical populations|align=left|1871|2527|1880|2944|1890|2926|1900|2873|1910|3216|1921|2791|1931|3017|1950|3461|1960|4128|2010|6091
|source=<ref name=gn/><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego|volume=X|year=1932|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=200}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Dokumentacja Geograficzna|volume=3/4|year=1967|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Instytut Geografii [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Polskiej Akademii Nauk]]|page=45}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|url=https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_l_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2010.pdf|title=Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r.|year=2011|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=104|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113152513/https://stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/PUBL_l_ludnosc_stan_struktura_31_12_2010.pdf|archive-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>}}
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==Notable residents==
* [[Lewis Naphtali Dembitz]] (1833–1907), German American legal scholar
* [[Raphael Lasker]] (1838–1904), German-American rabbi
* [[Hartmut Neugebauer]] (1942-2017) German actor and voice actor
* [[Krzysztof Opaliński]] (1611-1655), Polish nobleman and political satirist
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Sieraków - zamek Opalińskich ( XIVw. ), obecnie muzeum - panoramio.jpg|Opaliński Castle Museum
File:Sierakow-sarkofagi1.jpg|[[Opaliński]] family sarcophagus in castle's basement
File:Powstańców Square in Sieraków - IMG 3442.jpg|''Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich'' (main square)
File:Jezioro Jaroszewskie lato 2.jpg|Jaroszewskie Lake
</gallery>
==See also==
* [[Piotr Opaliński]], [[Krzysztof Opaliński]], [[Łukasz Opaliński (1612–1666)|Łukasz Opaliński]]
==External links==
{{commons}}
* [http://www.sierakow.pl/ Sierakow official web page (in Polish)]
* [http://www.parafia.sierakow.pl/ Parish of Sierakow official web page (in Polish)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020125134046/http://tkkf.com.pl/ TKKF]
=== Major corporations ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102150920/http://www.wartaglass.pl/ WartaGlass]
* [http://www.hutaszkla.com/ Glass Work Majchrzak]
== References ==
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{{Gmina Sieraków}}
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Międzychód County]]
[[Category:Populated lakeshore places in Poland]]
[[Category:Populated places on the Warta]]