Lisewo
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Lisewo is a village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The village is the Lisewo Municipality seat, a part of Chełmno County.
The current head of the village is Barbara Moch.
Postal code of Lisewo is 86-230.
[edit] About the village and the municipality
From the admistrative point of view Lisewo is a community. After World War II in February 1945 the voivodship Pomorskie was restored. Its seat was first of all situated in Toruń and then in April moved to Bydgoszcz. At the same time the district of Chełmno was segregated into new divisions and communities. This state was kept until 1954, when further districts were divided into smaller units. Krusin and Lisewo both were counted to these small units. The next territorial-administrative reform of the voivodship Bydgoszcz occurred in 1973. Communities were reintroduced and rural units deleted. Lisewo regained its status of a community. In 1975 the voivodship of Toruń was founded and Lisewo was one of the 49 municipalities belonging to it.
The village itself occurs in the oldest known documents under the name of Lissow in 1293, Lissaw/Lysaw in 1408 and Leysaw, Leissan, Lysow, Lissowo in 1530.
Lisewo is situated 33 km north of Toruń and 20 km east of Chełmno along an important transport and communication route. The closest towns are Chełmża (13km) and Wąbrzeźno (17km).
Lisewo municipality spreads over an area of 8620 ha and is inhabited by 5,5 thousand people, of which most are farmers. Local agriculture is dominted by individual farming. 80% of regional benefit is gained by agriculture, whereas only 0,3% derives from forestry.
The north-south motorway axis Gdańsk-Cieszyn is being enlargend at the moment and one of the motorway- descends is going to be located close to Lisewo.
