Łazy
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Zawiercie | ||
| Area : | 8.80 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 21 ′ N , 19 ° 25 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 6811 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 42-450 to 42-453 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | ||
| License plate : | SZA | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Rail route : | Zawiercie – Katowice | ||
| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Urban and rural municipality | ||
| Gmina structure: | 14 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 132.56 km² | ||
| Residents: | 15,923 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 120 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 2416053 | ||
| Administration (as of 2009) | |||
| Mayor : | Maciej Kaczyński | ||
| Address: | ul.Traugutta 15 42-450 Łazy |
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| Website : | www.lazy.pl | ||
Łazy [ ˈwazɨ ] ( German Lazy ) is a city in Poland . It is located 22 km northeast of Katowice and belongs to the Silesian Voivodeship .
history
Early days
Łazy was founded in 1790 when Kazimierz Szenbek from Rokitno Szlacheckie set up a Na Łazach brewery , where Jews from Rokitno worked.
After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Lazy came to Prussia as part of New Silesia , came to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and finally to Congress Poland in 1815 .
After Łazy had a rail connection on an important transport route through the commissioning of the railway line from Warsaw to Vienna in 1848 , the economic development of the place to the northeast of the Upper Silesian coal field began.
Towards the end of the 19th century, several brickworks were built and in 1898 a plant for the production of Portland cement . A marshalling yard was also built .
World wars
Since the place is not too far from the city of Oświęcim and the later concentration camp Auschwitz , the administrative times between the world wars, the establishment of the Buna-Werke of IG Farben AG and the time of the extermination of the Jews in World War II did not go without effects on the development of the Passed by. The history of the concentration camp mentions this as follows:
“ 1917: In Lazy in Zasola , near the government guest house Oświęcim-Rajsko, a new barracks settlement called New Town ( Nowe Miasto ) or Oświęcim III is built. There was, among other things, the domestic labor office for seasonal and permanent migrant workers. Between the First and Second World Wars, part of the building was used to host Polish refugees from Cieszyn , and another part housed Polish barracks. In 1940, the Germans established the Auschwitz concentration camp here. "
As early as 1916, the city of Oświęcim built a barrack camp for migrant workers, the Saxons . On November 3, the Cracow Polska Komisja Likwidacyjna (Polish Liquidation Commission) convened a district committee, a nucleus of the Polish civil administration. In 1918, after the First World War , the place became part of the Second Polish Republic.
In 1930 the place had 1,530 inhabitants, who were predominantly Jewish.
From September 3 to 4, 1939, one of the last border battles of the Kraków army took place in the region. It was then occupied by the Wehrmacht . In October 1939, Oświęcim and its surroundings were incorporated directly into the German Reich , in violation of international law . After the German occupation, Lazy was part of the German district of Warthenau between 1939 and 1945 . Only the advance of the Allies from West and East led to the "evacuation" of the neighboring camp by the Germans on January 18, 1945, until the camp itself was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945 .
Modern times
In 1945 1,020 people lived in the village.
Łazy received the status of an urban settlement in 1956 and was promoted to city in 1967.
traffic
The Łazy train station and the Chruszczobród and Wiesiółka stops on the Warszawa – Katowice railway line are in the municipality. The Łazy – Dąbrowa Górnicza Towarowa freight line branches off at the station.
Partner communities
- Markvartovice , Czech Republic, 1999
- Santovka , Slovakia, 1999
- Tarcal , Hungary, 1996
local community
The urban and rural municipality Łazy covers an area of 132.56 km² with around 16,000 inhabitants. In addition to Łazy itself, this includes the following 14 school authorities ( sołectwo ):
- Chruszczobród
- Chruszczobród Piaski
- Ciągowice
- Grabova
- Hutki-Kanki
- Kuźnica Masłońska
- Niegowonice
- Niegowoniczki
- Rokitno Szlacheckie
- Skałbania
- Trzebyczka
- Turza
- Wiesiółka
- Wysoka
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ History of the concentration camp ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )