Dębica

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Dębica
Coat of arms of Dębica
Dębica (Poland)
Dębica
Dębica
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Subcarpathian
Powiat : Dębica
Area : 33.81  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '0 "  N , 21 ° 25' 0"  E
Residents : 45,634
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 39-200 to 39-210
Telephone code : (+48) 14
License plate : RDE
Economy and Transport
Street : E 40 Tarnów - Rzeszów
Next international airport : Rzeszów-Jasionka
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Residents: 45,634
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 1803011
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Paweł Wolicki
Address:
ul.Parkowa 28 39-200 Dębica
Website : www.debica.pl



Dębica [ dɛmˈbʲiʦa ] ( German  Dembitza ) is a city in southeastern Poland . It belongs to the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and is located around 40 km west of the provincial capital Rzeszów and around 100 km east of Kraków on the Wisłoka River . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name , to which it does not belong.

history

Dębica was first mentioned in 1293, when a wooden church already existed . Casimir III gave the town its town charter in 1358 , and in 1446 the right to hold markets and fairs was added. A great fire raged in 1554. In 1578, around 700 people lived in the city, around 20 of whom were craftsmen.

During the first partition of Poland , the city fell to Austria, which was accompanied by the loss of city rights. In 1831, a cholera epidemic claimed numerous lives. With the construction of the Lemberg - Vienna railway in 1856, Dębica was connected to the rail network. The resulting upswing finally led to the regaining of town charter in 1914.

In 1918 the city came to Poland. In 1937 it became the seat of a powiat . In 1939, before the outbreak of World War II , there were 10,600 people in Dębica. During the German occupation, the Jewish population was interned in Ghetto Dębica in order to be deported from there. The Heidelager SS military training area was also set up here.

During the Second World War, the city was 40% destroyed. After the reconstruction, it soon had about four and a half times as many inhabitants as in 1939.

Due to an administrative reform, the place came to the Tarnów Voivodeship in 1975 , until it was dissolved in 1998 and the place became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship from 1999.

economy

Goodyear Dunlop took over the local tire factory TC Debica SA (formerly Stomil Debica ) in 1995 . Today the Polish plant is the Group's third largest factory in the world.

traffic

At the Dębica station, the Łódź – Dębica line , which is only used for freight traffic here , branches off from the Kraków – Medyka line .

Rural community

The independent rural community (gmina wiejska) Dębica has an area of ​​137.6 km² on which about 25,500 people live.

Personalities

Twin cities

See also

literature

  • Irene Eber : I'm alone and afraid. A Jewish girl in Poland 1939–1945. Translated from the English by Reinhild Böhnke . Beck, Munich. 2007. 287 pages with 18 illustrations and 1 map. ISBN 3-406-55652-3 . Original English title: The Choice - Poland, 1939–1945. 2004. Schocken Books Inc., NY. 240 pp. ISBN 0-8052-4197-3 (English)

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. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goodyear.eu

Web links

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