Bełżec
| Bełżec | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Tomaszowski | ||
| Gmina : | Bełżec | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 23 ' N , 23 ° 26' E | ||
| Residents : | 2600 () | ||
| Postal code : | 22-670 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 84 | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK17 Lviv - Lublin | ||
| Rail route : | Chełm - Lviv | ||
| Next international airport : | Rzeszów-Jasionka | ||
Bełżec [ ˈbɛwʒɛts ] is a village in the powiat Tomaszowski in the Lublin Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name .
geography
Bełżec is located about 113 km southeast of Lublin and about 7 kilometers south of Tomaszów Lubelski near the border with Ukraine .
The Chełm - Lemberg railway line and Droga krajowa 17 run through Bełżec .
history
Until 1939
In 1607 Bełżec received city rights under Magdeburg law . In 1648 troops under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj reached the city. In 1772, when Poland was first partitioned , the place became part of Galicia . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Bełżec became part of the Kingdom of Poland . In 1858 a school in Bełżec is mentioned for the first time. In 1884 the railway line was built through the town. From 1921 to 1939 the place belonged to the Lviv Voivodeship .
1939 to 1944
After the German occupation, Bełżec came to the General Government, District Headquarters Zamość in the Lublin district. The place had 4,622 inhabitants in 1943; of which the village Bełżec had 4,260 and the village Brzeziny 362 inhabitants.
During the German military occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 , the Belzec extermination camp was located there, where around 434,000 people were murdered between 1942 and 1943.
In the summer of 1944, Soviet troops reached Bełżec, and in September 1944 the first municipal council elections took place after the war.
1944 until today
After the war the place became part of the Lublin Voivodeship . Until 1972, Bełżec was the seat of a municipality, then it became part of the municipality of Tomaszów Lubelski and in 1992 received the municipality seat back.
From 1975 to 1998 the village belonged to the Zamość Voivodeship .
Museums and sights
- Belzec Memorial Museum
- Greek Orthodox and Catholic Church from 1756
- Parish Church "To Our Lady"
Gmina Bełżec
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Bełżec has an area of 28.66 km². 56% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 34% is covered with forest. Bełżec has three school offices : Bełżec I, II and III.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Bełżec (Polish)
- Website of the memorial site (Polish and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ mapa.szukacz.pl (Polish, accessed October 13, 2011)
- ↑ Saul Friedländer : The Third Reich and the Jews; the years of persecution 1933–1939; the years of annihilation 1939–1945 . Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56681-3 , p. 861 and note 91
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)
- ↑ regioset.pl (pl / en accessed on October 13, 2011)