POLSKA	POLAND
województwo: Lubuskie	voivodship: Lebus
powiat: Międzyrzecz	county: Międzyrzecz

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Skwierzyna (German: Schwerin an der Warthe) is situated at an elevation of 35 m in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland. It is located at the confluence of the Obra and Warta rivers, about 18 km north of Miedzyrzecz and 23 km southeast of the regional capital, Gorzów Wielkopolski. The municipality (gmina) Skwierzyna has a population fo about 9,700 (2016).

Skwierzyna already held town privileges in 1296; these privileges were renewed in 1406. The colonization of the area was largely implemented by the Cistercian monks of nearby Paradyż Abbey, a filial monastery of Lehnin Abbey in the margraviate of Brandenburg. With its predominantly German citizens, the town for centuries belonged to the Polish Poznań Voivodeship, situated near the western border of the Lands of the Polish Crown with the Brandenburgian Neumark region. In the course of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 (see map), Skwierzyna was annexed together with the whole region of Greater Poland by the Kingdom of Prussia. It was part of Grand Duchy of Warsaw between 1807 and 1815 (see map). In 1815 it was incorporated into the Kreis Birnbaum (Międzychód) of the Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań) within the Kingdom of Prussia (see map). From 1887 it was the administrative seat of Kreis Schwerin within the Prussian Province of Posen. In 1919, according to the Treaty of Versailles, this district was left in the small province of Posen–West Prussia which remained part of Weimar Germany (see map). Posen-West Prussia was dissolved in 1938 and Schwerin/Skwierzyna became part of the Province of Brandenburg. It was part of Germany until occupation by the Red Army on 31 January 1945. At the end of World War II the lands east of the Oder–Neisse line fell to the Republic of Poland.

The town hall [left, no. 3425: top picture] was built in 1841 in Historicist style with neogothic and classicist elements.

The bottom left picture shows a view of Königliche Präparandenanstalt (preparatory school for primary school teachers).

The bottom right picture shows a view of the post office.

Other glasses of this collection are souvenirs from Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skwierzyna, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skwierzyna, http://fallingrain.com/world/PL/76/Skwierzyna.html]