Goniądz

Goniądz
	Goniądz
	Goniądz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
Powiat :	Moniecki
Gmina :	Goniądz
Geographic location :	53 ° 29 ' N , 22 ° 44' E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '14 " N , 22 ° 44' 2" E
Residents :	1824 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	19-110
Telephone code :	(+48) 86
License plate :	BMN
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 670 Goniądz− Suchowola
Rail route :	Białystok – Ełk
Next international airport :	Warsaw
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Goniądz (German Gonionds ) is a city in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the Powiat Moniecki with about 5000 inhabitants.

history

The first documentary mention of today's Goniądz comes from a document dated August 14, 1358. In 1547 Goniądz was granted town charter. A school was mentioned for the first time in 1571. During the third partition of Poland , the city came under Prussian rule ( New East Prussia ), then in 1807 under Russian rule. After the end of the First World War , the city became part of the re-established Poland . In 1921 the church burned down from 1779, after which a new one was built and inaugurated in 1924.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Goniądz was occupied by the Red Army . When the war against the Soviet Union began , the Wehrmacht occupied the city. In 1944 the Wehrmacht withdrew from the area and Soviet soldiers occupied the area.

Population development

In 1765 about 1500 people lived in the city, in 1897 there were 3402. On December 31, 2008, 5223 inhabitants lived in the municipality of Goniądz and eight years later in the town of 1824 people.

Cemetery chapel

local community

The urban and rural community of Goniądz has an area of 376.68 km², on which about 5000 people live (2016).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The city is located on Voivodship Road 670 ( droga wojewódzka 670 , ext. 670). This begins about five kilometers west of Goniądz as a junction from the national road 65 ( Droga krajowa 65 ). About 25 kilometers east of Goniądz, the 670 crosses the town of Suchowola and crosses national road 8 at the same time as European road 67 .

Slightly south of the city is the Goniądz stop on the Głomno – Białystok railway line . The nearest international airport is Frédéric Chopin Airport in Warsaw , about 190 kilometers to the southwest.

education

There is a school center in the city, which houses the elementary and secondary schools as well as the grammar school.

sons and daughters of the town

Petrus Gonesius (1525–1573), theologian and representative of anti-Trinitarianism
Abraham Aron Roback (1890–1965), psychologist and linguist
Hanna Haschka , married. Wolf (1908–1999), politician and member of the Central Committee of the SED.

Web links

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

City website
Link catalog on the subject of Goniądz at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ ) (Polish)

Footnotes

^ Website of the community
^ Website of the grammar school ( Memento of March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny accessed on January 19, 2011 ( Memento from June 3, 2009 on WebCite )

[1] Website of the community

[2] Website of the grammar school ( Memento of March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Główny Urząd Statystyczny accessed on January 19, 2011 ( Memento from June 3, 2009 on WebCite )