Łowicz

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Łowicz
Coat of arms of Łowicz
Łowicz (Poland)
Łowicz
Łowicz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Łódź
Powiat : Łowicz
Area : 23.40  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 6 ′  N , 19 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 19 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 28,375
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 99-400 to 99-402
Telephone code : (+48) 46
License plate : ELC
Economy and Transport
Street : Warsaw - Łódź
Rail route : Warsaw – Poznan
Skierniewice – Łowicz
Łowicz – Łódź
Next international airport : Warsaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 23.40 km²
Residents: 28,375
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 1213 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1005011
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Krzysztof Kaliński
Address: Stary Rynek 1
99-400 Łowicz
Website : www.lowicz.eu/pl/



Łowicz [ ˈwɔvʲitʃ ] ( German Lowitsch ) is a city in the Łódź Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the Powiat Łowicki and the independent rural municipality Łowicz .

geography

Geographical location

The place is located in the lowlands of Mazovia northeast of Łódź and about 80 km southwest of Warsaw on the Bzura . The area has only a few forest areas and the soil has a high proportion of clay and sand.

climate

Climatically, the area lies on the border between the maritime climate of Central Europe and the continental climate of Eastern Europe. The average rainfall is 550 ml with average temperatures of 7–8 ° C.

history

The first people probably settled as early as the 40th century BC. The first mention of the place comes from the year 1136 in a bull by Pope Innocent II. At this time the place on the right bank of the Bzura belonged to the Archbishop of Gniezno and was a trading post due to its location on the river. The exact preservation of the city ​​rights is not guaranteed; but in 1298 Łowicz already owned it, including the coin shelf . In 1433 a branch of the University of Krakow was established. During the interregnum around 1527, the city was a second capital of Poland. Archbishop Jarosław Skotnicki built his main residence around 1355 with the Gothic castle . It was destroyed by the Swedes in the Swedish-Polish War in 1656/57 and is now in ruins. With the Second Northern War at the beginning of the 18th century, Łowicz's prosperity ended.

In 1793, during the Second Partition of Poland , the city fell to Prussia . In 1807 the city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it became part of Congress Poland . In 1845 the place was connected to the rail network to Warsaw . In 1862 this was extended to Bromberg and in 1902 to Kalisch .

Łowicz Cathedral

During the First World War , Łowicz was in German hands from 1915 to 1918. Not far from the city, the Battle of the Bzura took place in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War . During the occupation by the German Reich in 1940, a ghetto was established, but it was dissolved again a year later. In January 1945 the Red Army took the city of Łowicz.

In 1975 the place lost its seat as a powiat and became part of the Skierniewice Voivodeship . In 1992 Pope John Paul II founded the Diocese of Łowicz as part of the reorganization of the Catholic dioceses in Poland . During the period of socialism , a Mazovian Humanistic and Pedagogical University , a foreign language teaching college, a teaching college, a college for management and marketing, a branch of the main university for agriculture and a seminary and theology college were built in the city . In 1999 John Paul II visited the city and elevated the cathedral to a minor basilica .

The traditional Łowicz paper cuttings became famous .

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Łowicz, to which the city itself does not belong, consists of a number of villages with school authorities and other localities. It has a total of 7689 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

traffic

The Łowicz long-distance train station is located at the junction of the route to Skierniewice from the Poznan – Warsaw route . There are connections to the Bednary – Łódź line.

Sports

The Pelikan Łowicz football club was founded in 1945. In the 2016/17 season he played in the 3rd football league (Poland) , Group 1.

Town twinning

Are twin cities of Łowicz

sons and daughters of the town

Łowicki, the folk costume

Web links

Commons : Łowicz  - collection of images, 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. ↑ Tourismusite Łowicz - Miasta partnerskie , accessed on January 18, 2018