Piątek

This article is about the Polish community in the Łódź Voivodeship. For people with the name Piątek, see Piątek (disambiguation) .

Piątek
	Piątek
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Łódź
Powiat :	Łęczycki
Geographic location :	52 ° 4 '  N , 19 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '9 "  N , 19 ° 28' 50"  E
Residents :	1908 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	99-120
Telephone code :	(+48) 24
License plate :	ELE
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure:	42 localities
	33 school authorities
Surface:	133.47 km²
Residents:	6019 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ):	1004062
administration
Mayor :	Krzysztof Lisiecki
Address:	ul.Rynek 16 99-120 Piątek
Website :	www.gminapiatek.pl

Piątek (German 1943-1945 Quadenstädt ) is a town in the Powiat Łęczycki in the Łódź Voivodeship , Poland . Piątek is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ).

geography

Piątek is located 34 km north of Łódź and 106 km west of Warsaw on the Moszczenica and Malina rivers.

The city forms the geographical center of Poland. A memorial stone in the village with the inscription “Piątek - geometryczny środek Polski” reminds of this fact.

history

Until 1939

Piątek was mentioned for the first time in 1136 in a bull by Pope Innocent II . In 1339 Piątek received town charter. The town charter was confirmed in a document from 1357, which states that Piątek belongs to the Archdiocese of Gniezno . In the sixteenth century the city was known for its beer production. In 1800 there were 33 breweries in the city. As part of the Third Partition of Poland , Piątek fell to Prussia . In 1807 the city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 part of Congress Poland . In 1817 the city was largely destroyed in a fire. The city played an important role during the January Uprising . After the crackdown, Piątek lost its town charter.

Since 1939

During the fighting in September 1939, the city was largely destroyed. 1,300 Jews lived in Piątek, that was more than a third of the population. In 1940 the German occupiers ordered a forced ghetto, and in April 1942 its residents were deported to the Chelmno extermination camp .

Between 1954 and 1972 Piątek was the seat of the Gromada Piątek , Łódź Voivodeship and since 1973 the seat of the Gmina Piątek. From 1975 to 1998 Piątek belonged to the Płock Voivodeship . On January 1, 2020, Piątek was restored to town.

local community

geography

The municipality has an area of ​​133.47 km². 83% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 8% is covered with forest.

Sołectwo

The municipality has 33 school departments: Balkow, Bielice, Boguszyce, Czerników, Goślub, Górki Łubnickie, Górki Pęcławskie, Janowice, Janków-Orądki, Jasionna, Konarzew, Krzyszkowice, Leka, Lubnica, Piaskare, Piaskare, Mchowka, Michenałówka, Michenałówka Leżajna, Pęcławice, Piątek, Piekary, Pokrzywnica, Rogaszyn, Sułkowice Pierwsze, Sułkowice Drugie, Śladków Podleśny, Śladkó Rozlazły, Sypin-Borowiec, Witów, Włostowice, Włostowice.

education

The municipality has a kindergarten ( Przedszkole ), two elementary schools ( szkoła podstawowa ) and a middle school ( gimnazjum ).

Personalities

• Mieczysław Nowicki (* 1951), cyclist

literature

• Piątek , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 585

Web links

Commons : Piątek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the community

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2017
2. ↑ 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 . 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 23, 2016 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. 
4. ↑ Ordinance No. 32/54 Wojewódzkiej Rady Narodowej w Łodzi z dnia 4 października 1954 on the division of the Gromadas in the Powiat Łęczycki (Dziennik Urzędowy Wojewódzkiej Rady Narodowej w Łodzi z dnia 4 października 1954), No. 195 Poznan, no.
5. ↑ Uchwała No. XIX / 100/72 Wojewódzkiej Rady Narodowej w Łodzi z dnia 9 grudnia 1972 r. w sprawie utworzenia gmin w województwie łódzkim
6. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)
7. ↑ Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 26 lipca 2019 r. w sprawie ustalenia granic niektórych gmin i miast oraz nadania niektórym miejscowościom statusu miasta in the Internetowy system Aktów Prawnych, accessed on January 24, 2020.
8. ↑ regioset.pl (Polish, accessed May 28, 2010)