Łańcut

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Łańcut
Coat of arms of Łańcut
Łańcut (Poland)
Łańcut
Łańcut
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Subcarpathian
Powiat : Łańcut
Area : 19.43  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 4 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '0 "  N , 22 ° 14' 0"  E
Height : 235 m npm
Residents : 17,709
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 37-100
Telephone code : (+48) 17
License plate : RLA
Economy and Transport
Street : E 40 Rzeszów - Przeworsk
Next international airport : Rzeszów-Jasionka
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Residents: 17,709
(June 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 1810011
Administration (as of 2008)
Mayor : Stanislaw Gwizdak
Address: Plac Sobieskiego 18
37-100 Łańcut
Website : www.lancut.pl



Łańcut is a city in Poland in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship .

history

Market square in Łańcut

In 1344 or 1345, King Casimir III took over. the Great († 1370) the western edge of Red Ruthenia ( Sanoker and Przemyśler Land ). Around 1349 the king gave the area to the knight of German origin Otto von Pilcza , who founded the city of Łańcut and several neighboring villages, including with the help of German settlers. The result was a well-documented and researched language island of the so-called forest Germans, although the German language in the city disappeared much earlier than in some neighboring villages. The name of the city, first mentioned in 1369 as Landshut , was most likely transferred from Landeshut ( Kamienna Góra ) in Lower Silesia by the settlers.

Łańcut Castle

The next document that reports on the place Łańcut is a bull from Pope Gregory XI. on January 28, 1378. In 1502, 1523 and 1626 the city was attacked by the Tatars . The castle was built between 1629 and 1642 . From 1889 to 1911 it was extensively restored and rebuilt. In 1820 a great fire raged and destroyed large parts of Łańcut.

Population development

In 1910 there were 4857 inhabitants. In 2007, 18,105 people lived in Łańcut.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Museums

The Łańcut Castle ( Muzeum - Zamek w Łańcucie ) can be visited. It shows historical living spaces from the 17th century to the 1920s. The largest collection of historical horse-drawn carriages in Poland can also be viewed

There is also a distillery museum.

music

The Łańcut Music Festival ( Muzyczny Festiwal w Łańcucie ) has been held since 1961 .

In 1975 Zenon Brzewski (1923–1993) founded the International Music Courses held annually in the Castle of Łańcut ( Międzynarodowe Kursy Muzyczne im. Zenona Brzewskiego w Łańcucie ).

Buildings

The most important attraction of the place is the castle complex, which includes the museum, a landscape park, the orangery and the synagogue from the 18th century.

The church, which was built in 1628, and the market with buildings from the 17th century are worth seeing. There are also three old cemeteries, the city cemetery from 1862, the Jewish cemetery from the 17th century and the cemetery of the Soviet soldiers from 1944.

Rural community

The city of Łańcut forms a municipality . At the same time, there is an independent rural community of the same name, to which nine school offices belong. The community has a total area of ​​106.6 km², on which 21,852 people live (June 30, 2019).

traffic

The nearest international airport is Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport , which is about 16 kilometers northwest.

Europastraße 40 , also Landesstraße 4 , runs through the city . This leads to the west through Rzeszów, about 15 kilometers away . To the east the road runs through Przeworsk , Jarosław and Radymno . Voivodeship road 877 ( droga wojewódzka 877 ) runs north-south . This leads north after about 25 kilometers through Lezajsk and in the south after 15 kilometers to Dylagowka .

The connection to the rail network of Polskie Koleje Państwowe ( PKP ) offers, among other things, a direct connection to Krakow .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Władysław Czajewski, long-time director of the Castle Museum
  • Andrzej Gołaś (* 1946), Mayor of Krakow from 1998 to 2002
  • Bogusław Kaczyński, organizer of the Music Festival in Łańcut ( Muzyczny Festiwal w Łańcucie )
  • Krystyna and Mirosław Ławrynowiczowie, co-organizers of the international music festival
  • Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), Polish general
  • Józef Michalik (* 1941), Archbishop
  • Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), Polish marshal and politician
  • Stanisław Potocki, descendant of the former castle owners
  • Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), Polish marshal and politician
  • Tadeusz Szymański (1917–2002), colonel in the Polish army
  • Ignacy Tokarczuk (1918–2012), Archbishop

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Łańcut  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Muzeum-Zamek w Łańcucie, “History of the Castle”, accessed on February 4, 2008
  3. ↑ General directory of the local communities and localities in Austria based on the results of the census of December 31, 1910 , p. 348. (published by the kk Central Statistical Commission in Vienna) Vienna, 1915.
  4. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, "LUDNOŚĆ - STAN I STRUKTURA W PRZEKROJU TERYTORIALNYM", as of June 30, 2007 ( Memento of February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Music Festival in Lancut culture.pl (English, accessed on February 6, 2013) ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ^ Zenon Brzewski International Music Courses in Lancut