Gmina Bełżec
| Gmina Bełżec | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Tomaszowski | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 23 ' N , 23 ° 26' E | ||
| Residents : | see Gmina | ||
| Postal code : | 22-670 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 84 | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK17 Lviv - Lublin | ||
| Rail route : | Chełm – Lviv | ||
| Next international airport : | Rzeszów-Jasionka | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Rural community | ||
| Gmina structure: | 7 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 28.66 km² | ||
| Residents: | 3301 (June 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 115 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 0618022 | ||
| Administration (as of 2010) | |||
| Community leader : | Andrzej Adamek | ||
| Address: | ul.Lwowska 5 22-670 Bełżec |
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| Website : | www.belzec.pl | ||
The Gmina Bełżec [ ˈbɛwʒɛts ] is a rural municipality in the powiat Tomaszowski of the Lublin Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the village of the same name with about 2600 inhabitants (2011).
In Belzec extermination camp about 434,000 people were murdered 1942 and 1943. The museum and memorial are located near Bełżec.
geography
The rural community is located about 110 km southeast of Lublin and five kilometers south of Tomaszów Lubelski near the border with Ukraine . The municipality has an area of 28.66 km². 56% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 34% is covered with forest.
The Chełm - Lemberg railway line and Droga krajowa 17 run through Bełżec .
history
Bełżec was the municipality seat until 1972, then became part of the Tomaszów Lubelski municipality and in 1992 received the municipality seat back. From 1975 to 1998 the rural community belonged to the Zamość Voivodeship .
structure
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Bełżec has seven school offices :
- Bełżec I, II and III
- Brzeziny
- Chyże
- Kolonia Szalenik and
- Żyłka.
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Bełżec (Polish)
- Website of the memorial site (Polish and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Saul Friedländer : The Third Reich and the Jews; the years of persecution 1933–1939; the years of annihilation 1939–1945 . Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56681-3 , p. 861 and note 91.
- ↑ regioset.pl (pl / en accessed on October 13, 2011)