Sochaczew

Sochaczew
Coat of arms
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Masovian
County	Sochaczew County
Gmina	Sochaczew (urban gmina)
Town rights	1368
Government
• Mayor	Bogumił Czubacki
Area
• Total	26.13 km2 (10.09 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population  (2007)
• Total	37,910
• Density	1,500/km2 (3,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	96-500 to 96-503
Area code	+48 46
Car plates	WSC
Website	http://www.sochaczew.pl

Sochaczew [Polish pronunciation: [s] ] is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2004).

Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Sochaczew County.

Sochaczew has a narrow-gauge railway museum with a line that runs out as far as Wilcze Tułowskie. Steam trains run back and forth on the line on Saturdays from spring to the end of summer. Although the line is 750mm gauge, there is a number of static exhibits in the museum of narrower and broader gauge.

Education

• Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Marketingu

Famous people

• Fryderyk Chopin - componist and pianist (1810 - 1849)
• Avrohom Bornsztain, the Avnei Nezer - First Sochatchover Rebbe (1838 - 1910)
• Shmuel Bornsztain, the Shem Mishmuel - Second Sochatchover Rebbe (1856-1926)
• Wladyslaw Komendarek - musician
• Bogusław Liberadzki - MEP - born 1948 in Sochaczew
• Oser Warszawski - Yiddish writer - born 1898 in Sochaczew, killed in Auschwitz in 1944

External links

• Sochaczew
• e-Sochaczew
• sochaczewianin
• Museum of Sochaczew County
• Sochaczew Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Book (Yiddish & Hebrew)
• WSZiM