Bodzentyn
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Kielce | ||
| Gmina : | Bodzentyn | ||
| Area : | 8.65 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 57 ′ N , 20 ° 58 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 274 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 2241 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 26-010 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | TKI | ||
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| Next international airport : | Krakow-Balice | ||
Bodzentyn is a Polish city in the Powiat Kielecki of the Heiligkreuz Voivodeship with around 2,200 inhabitants. It is the seat of the City and Country same community of 12,000 people, located on the edge of the Holy Cross Mountains and is the administrative center of the Świętokrzyski National Park .
history
The place was founded in 1355 by the Kraków bishop Jan Bodzanta. In 1413 it received city rights. From the 16th to the 18th century it was a center of crafts and trade. With the Third Partition of Poland in 1793, Bodzentyn fell to Austria, and after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 became Russian as part of Congress Poland . In the 19th century the town charter was lost again in 1870. Seven years earlier, a battle between Russians and Poles took place nearby during the January Uprising . In 1939 the Wehrmacht marched in and built a Jewish ghetto for the approximately 1,000 Jewish residents of the city and many more from the area. In September 1942 the survivors, including Dawid Rubinowicz , were taken to the Treblinka extermination camp and gassed. In 1995 the city rights were renewed. Today Bodzentyn is known as a starting point for excursions to the national park and because of its horse market, which is controversial for animal welfare reasons. The horse market and the cattle market have since been closed because of the unsustainable conditions.
Attractions
- Ruins of the Mannerist - Baroque palace of the Kraków bishops from the 17th century
- Gothic parish church of the Assumption and St. Stanislaus from 1440 to 1452. It houses the only surviving painting by the Krakow painter Marcin Czarny, “The Dormition” from 1508.
- Ruins of the Holy Spirit Church from the 15th century
- Museum with ethnographic collections
- Houses from the 18th and 19th centuries
- War cemetery of the First World War
- Jewish Cemetery
- Center for Folk Art (weaving)
Personalities
- Franciszek Krasiński († 1577), Bishop of Cracow
- Jakub Zadzik (1582–1642), Bishop of Cracow
- Józef Szermentowski (1833–1876), painter.
