Skwierzyna

Skwierzyna stands at the confluence of the Obra and Warta rivers in western Poland. It developed from a Slavic fishing settlement on a route linking Szczecin and Kraków, and already possessed town privileges by 1296. King Władysław Jagiełło renewed those privileges in 1406.

The town received a coat of arms in 1530 and became a royal town of the Polish Crown in 1543. Prussia annexed it in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. It formed part of the Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815, before returning to Prussian administration.