Bełżyce
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Lubelski | ||
| Gmina : | Bełżyce | ||
| Area : | 23.46 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 10 ′ N , 22 ° 17 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 6588 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 24-200 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 81 | ||
| License plate : | LUB | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Lublin - Poniatowa | ||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
Bełżyce [ bɛwˈʒɨtsɛ ] is a Polish city in the Lublin Voivodeship, southwest of Lublin . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 13,300 inhabitants.
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1409. In 1417 Bełżyce received the city charter according to Magdeburg law . The castle was built in 1440. In 1795 the place came under the Habsburg Empire. In 1809 the city became part of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 part of Congress Poland . In 1896 the city lost its town charter. A ghetto for Jews was set up during the Second World War . The number of Jews in the village had been around 2,000 up to that point; it rose to around 4,000 due to the ghettoization of the surrounding area and deportations from annexed western Poland, Krakow and Lublin. On May 22, 1942 the ghetto was dissolved Inmates deported to other forced labor camps or to extermination camps.
See also: New Jewish Cemetery (Bełżyce)
In 1958, Bełżyce was regained its town charter and was also the seat of a powiat . The city had to give up the district seat in 1975.
local community
In addition to the city of Bełżyce, the city-and-rural municipality includes 23 other localities with a school administration office .
Son of the city
- Sylwester Czopek (* 1958), archaeologist, Rector of the University of Rzeszów
literature
- Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Volume 1., Jerusalem 2009, ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 34f.
