Łosice

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Łosice
Coat of arms of the city of Łosice
Łosice (Poland)
Łosice
Łosice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Mazovia
Powiat : Łosice
Area : 23.75  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 32 '  N , 21 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '50 "  N , 21 ° 41' 10"  E
Residents : 7191 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 08-200
Telephone code : (+48) 83
License plate : WLS
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure: 21 school authorities
Surface: 121.29 km²
Residents: 10,815
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 89 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1410023
administration
Mayor : Janusz Stanisław Kobyliński
Address: ul. Piłsudskiego 6
08-200 Łosice
Website : www.losice.pl



Main square in Łosice

Łosice ( Polish Лoсічы , Łósiczy) is a small town in eastern Poland. Since 1999 it has been part of the Masovian Voivodeship , previously the Biała Podlaska Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is currently the seat of government of the Powiat Łosicki district .

local community

In addition to the city of Łosice, the urban and rural municipality includes the following 21 localities with a school administration office :

Biernaty Średnie
Chotycze
Chotycze Colonia
Czuchleby
Dzięcioły
Jeziory
Łuzki
Meszki
Niemojki
Niemojki (osada)
Nowosielec
Patków
Prusy
Rudnik
Stare Biernaty
Szańków
Szańków-Kolonia
Świniarów
Toporów
Woźniki
Shortfall

Attractions

  • Neo-Gothic Church of St. Zygmunt, built between 1906 and 1909
  • Former monastery, now rebuilt as a hospital
  • Neo-Gothic St. Stanisław cemetery chapel, built in 1845
  • Baroque roadside statue, erected in 1775
  • Memorial monument to the children of Zamojszczyzna who died in Łosice during the attack by Nazi German troops in 1943
  • Parish church in Niemojki, built in 1783

Sons and daughters

  • David Gewirtzman (1928–2012), survivor and contemporary witness of the Holocaust

Web links

Commons : Łosice  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. 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 .