In summer 1942, a part of the German population returned.
When it ended in 1648 more than half the German population was dead.
The area has been settled by German populations since then.
By the early 19th century the German population was assimilated.
The German population was almost completely expelled from the region.
In the year 1900 the city's German population was 34,000.
Virtually the entire German population fled west at the end of the war.
Over the next decade, the German population decreased by another 70,000 to a share of 9,6%.
It was built between 1697-1709 for the town's German population.
These people and their descendants were no longer officially considered a part of the German population.