Chmielnik
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Kielce | ||
| Gmina : | Chmielnik | ||
| Area : | 7.90 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 37 ' N , 20 ° 45' E | ||
| Height : | 240 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 3831 (Dec. 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 26-020 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | TKI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Tarnów - Kielce | ||
| Chmielnik– Jędrzejów | |||
| Next international airport : | Krakow-Balice | ||
Chmielnik is a city in Poland in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship .
history
The first written mention of today's Chmielnik comes from March 18, 1241 . On that day there was a battle between the Mongols and Polish knights, in which the Poles were defeated and Chmielnik was destroyed. King Sigismund II August. Gave the place at that time owned by the family Oleśnicki , on March 9, 1551 the town charter . During the years 1644 to 1666 Chmielnik was one of the most important places of the Reformation, especially Calvinism , in Poland. During the Third Partition of Poland , the city came under Austrian rule in 1795 . When the Duchy of Warsaw was founded in 1809 , Chmielnik became part of it and in 1815 part of the newly formed Congress Poland . In 1876 a fire raged in the city and destroyed large parts of Chmielnik. On September 4, 1939, the Wehrmacht marched into the city and occupied it without a fight. The invasion of the Red Army on January 13, 1945 marked the end of the Second World War for the city. In 1955 Chmielnik became the seat of a powiat , but lost it again in 1962. During a general administrative reform in Poland, the city came to the Kielce Voivodeship in 1975 , since its dissolution, Chmielnik has been part of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship from 1999.
Population development
| year | population |
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| 1618 | 250 |
| 1673 | 412 |
| 2005 | 4.016 |
local community
The city-and-rural community ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) includes the city of Chmielnik and the following 25 localities with a school administration office .
Attractions
- The Trinity Church ( Kościółek Św. Trójcy ) from the beginning of the 16th century.
- The Church of the Immaculate Conception of Saint Mary ( Kościół parafialny pw Niepokalanego poczęcia Najświętszej Marii Panny ), which was built in 1730
- The synagogue was built in 1633/34.
- New Jewish cemetery
traffic
Chmielnik is located on the national road 73 from Tarnów to Kielce, which runs in a north-south direction . The state road 78, which on the border with the Czech Republic , south of Rybnik , begins in the city. Furthermore, Chmielnik is the starting point of Voivodeship Road 765, which leads east and ends in Staszów , about 30 kilometers away .
The nearest international airport is the John Paul II Airport Kraków-Balice which is about 90 kilometers southwest of the city.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Bishop Edward Materski (1923–2012), bestowed honorary citizenship in 2001
- Maria Stolzman, honorary citizenship in 2001
- Roman Arendarski, granted honorary citizenship in 2005
- Stanisław Żak , granted honorary citizenship in 2006
Son of the city
- Andreas Wojdowski (around 1565–1622), Unitarian-Socinian theologian
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://izrael.badacz.org/zydzi_w_polsce/katalog_swietokrzyskie_chmielnik.html ( Memento from March 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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↑ For 1618 & 1673;
current data: Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Ludność. Stan i structure w przekroju terytorialnym. ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
