Filipów

Filipów
	Filipów
	Filipów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
Powiat :	Suwalski
Geographic location :	54 ° 11 ' N , 22 ° 37' E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '50 " N , 22 ° 37' 15" E
Residents :	2113 (2013)
Postal code :	16-424
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	BSU
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Filipów ( Lithuanian Pilypavas ) is a former town in the rural municipality in the powiat Suwalski of the Podlaskie Voivodeship in Poland . The place is the seat of the rural community of the same name with about 4400 inhabitants.

geography

Town center

Filipów is located in the historical Suwalszczyzna region on the Rospuda River , which leaves the Jezioro Kamienne in the north of the village and flows through the smaller Jezioro Długie in the south. The two lakes are glacial channel lakes and belong to the Pojezierze Suwalskie (Suwałki Lake District).

history

The town was granted city rights in 1570. During the third partition of Poland in 1795, the city fell to Prussia, in 1807 it belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 it became part of the Russian Congress of Poland . In 1861 the city had 291 houses and 2551 inhabitants. The important Jewish community numbered 812 people. City rights were revoked in 1870.

In 1909 Filipów became the seat of a parish of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church . The ruins of the destroyed chapel are still preserved.

Polish again since 1918, the place was in the immediate vicinity of the German border. During the Second World War , 90 percent of Filipów was destroyed. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Suwałki Voivodeship .

Battle of Filipów

In the Second Northern War (1655–1660), 11,000 soldiers met at the Battle of Filipów on October 22, 1656. The battle ended with a victory for the Swedish-Brandenburg-Prussian troops over the Polish-Lithuanian troops.

structure

The place Filipów is divided into four districts with a Schulzenamt : Filipów Pierwszy, Filipów Drugi, Filipów Trzeci and Filipów Czwarty (or Filipów I-IV).

Attractions

Parish church of the place

The classical parish church, built in 1838, is a listed building . The design comes from Chrystian Piotr Aigner . The baroque main altar dates from the middle of the 17th century.
Roman Catholic cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
The Maravite and the remains of the Protestant cemetery are not listed.

Personalities

Andrzej Wiszowaty (1608–1678), Unitarian philosopher, socian and theologian; born in Filipów.

Web links

Commons : Filipów - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of Gmina Filipów (Polish)
Filipów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 2 : Derenek – Gżack . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1881, p. 388 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

↑ Piotr Przemielewski: Geneza i dzieje mariawityzmu w parafii pw Wniebowzięcia NMP w Filipowie. Ełk 2002.
↑ Sławomir Augusiewicz: Prostki 1656 Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2001. P. 184f. ISBN 83-11-09323-7 .
↑ Entry in the register of monuments of the Podlaskie Voivodeship under number 653 of March 10, 1989.
↑ Entry No. 486 of May 15, 1986.
↑ Entry No. 740 of November 27, 1989.

[1] Piotr Przemielewski: Geneza i dzieje mariawityzmu w parafii pw Wniebowzięcia NMP w Filipowie. Ełk 2002.

[2] Sławomir Augusiewicz: Prostki 1656 Wydawniczy Bellona, Warszawa 2001. P. 184f. ISBN 83-11-09323-7 .

[3] Entry in the register of monuments of the Podlaskie Voivodeship under number 653 of March 10, 1989.

[4] Entry No. 486 of May 15, 1986.

[5] Entry No. 740 of November 27, 1989.