Kamenets

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Kamenets (Kamianets) | Kamenets
Ка́менец (Камяне́ц) | Каменец
( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )
coat of arms
coat of arms
State : BelarusBelarus Belarus
Woblasz : Flag of Brest Voblast, Belarus.svg Brest
Founded : 1276
Coordinates : 52 ° 24 '  N , 23 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '  N , 23 ° 48'  E
 
Residents : 8,425 (2015)
Time zone : Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )
Telephone code : (+375) 1631
Postal code : 225050, 225051
License plate : 1
Kamenets (Kamyanets) (Belarus)
Kamenets (Kamyanets)
Kamenets (Kamyanets)

Kamenez or Kamjanez (Polish Kamieniec Litewski ) is a small town in the west of Belarus near the border with Poland . The population was 8,425 in 2015.

location

City center with the Church of St. Simjon

Kamenez is located about 33 kilometers north of Brest on the Ljasnaja in the Breszkaja Woblasz and is the capital of the Kamenets district .

history

Tower of Kamenets

The city was first mentioned in the Galician-Volhyn Chronicle from 1276. Around this time the castle with the preserved White Tower was built (the name of the Białowieża Primeval Forest is derived from the Slavic name of the tower ). In 1366 it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In 1376 the place was burned down by the Teutonic Knights, but was soon rebuilt. In 1503 the place received self-administration rights, probably under Magdeburg law . In the Third Partition of Poland , Kamenez came to Russia.

From 1921 to 1939 Kamenez belonged to the Second Polish Republic as Kamieniec Litewski . After the occupation by the German Reich, the Jewish population was largely wiped out when the ghetto established in 1941 was destroyed in 1942. In 1945 the city became part of the Belarusian SSR, and in 1991 the independent Belarus. After the Second World War, a small food processing industry emerged.

Attractions

The Peter and Paul Church
high school
  • Towards the end of the 13th century, restored in 1903, the tower of the castle, which was destroyed in the Polish-Muscovite War 1654–1667 , has been a museum since 1960
  • Orthodox Church of Saint Simjon in Neo-Russian style from 1912 to 1914
  • Catholic Peter and Paul Church
  • Listed building of the grammar school from around 1920

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Grzegorz Rąkowski: Ilustrowany przewodnik po zabytkach kultury na Białorusi , 1997: Burchard Edition, Warszawa, p. 97/98, ISBN 83-904446-9-0
  • Jecheskel Kotik: My grandparents' house . Translation from the Yiddish Leo Hirsch . Berlin: Schocken, 1936 ( Majne zikrônôt , Warsaw 1913, Berlin 1922) [memories of the shtetl at the end of the 19th century]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/belarus-cities.htm

Web links

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