First information
about present Borne dated in 1587 when the settlers from Low Sachsen
arrived and named their settlement Gross Born. It means in free
 translation like ‘Great
Spring’ or ‘Great Well’. Round about the same time a new village
appeared named Linde called sometimes-later ‘Lipa by Krangen’ -
Lipa koło Krągów, and lay on the present Borne-Sulinowo territory.
During 1934-1936 Germans built a military town as a home front for
Artillery School and Troop Training Area of the Wehrmacht. It was right
there when the Guderian’s tanks were preparing for invasion against
Poland in September 1939, and it was just there when Rommel’s Army Corps
was training before sent onto African battles. It happened there - south
of Borne-Sulinowo where Germans localized an Officers’ Camp the Oflag II
D Gross Born. One of the writers – an author of "Pierwszy dzień
wolności" (‘The First Day of Freedom’) and playwright - Leon Kruczkowski
spent a time in the camp. The Soviet troops, which they were stationing,
between the surrounding woods took the place just after the Second
World War, and kept its military character. They made it one of the
best-restricted areas of the North Army Group. In Silnowo Commune’s
evidence, Borne-Sulinowo figured as ‘forest area’. It was typical
military place closed for civilians, ‘strategically’, so secret matters,
and out of the Polish jurisdiction like cut from structural territory of
Poland. 5th June 1993 Borne-Sulinowo born again and got urban laws. From
that day, it has been going a process of cultivation the garrison’s
forestland. |
