Kazimierza Wielka
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Kazimierza Wielka | ||
| Gmina : | Kazimierza Wielka | ||
| Area : | 5.34 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 16 ' N , 20 ° 29' E | ||
| Residents : | 5643 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 28-500 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | TKA | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ext. 768 Skalbmierz - Brzesko | ||
| Ext. 776 Proszowice - Busko-Zdrój | |||
| Next international airport : | Krakow-Balice | ||
[ kaʑiˈmʲɛʐa ˈvʲɛlka ] is a city inPolandin theŚwiętokrzyskie Voivodeship. It is the seat ofa town-and-country municipalityand thePowiat Kazimierski.
geography
Geographical location
Kazimierza Wielka is located on the Nidzica in the southern part of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in the Jędrzejów ( Płaskowyż Jędrzejowski ) plateau , part of the Nida lowlands ( Niecka Nidziańska ).
climate
The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 18 ° C. The coldest is January with an average temperature of −3 ° C. The average annual rainfall is 550 to 650 mm.
history
The first written mention of today's Kazimierza Wielka comes from the year 1320. During the Third Partition of Poland , the place came to the Austrian West Galicia , before it became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 . With its end in 1815, the place became part of the newly formed Russian Congress Poland . In 1845 a sugar factory was built. After the First World War , the place became part of the re-established Poland in 1919 . In September 1939, like all of Poland, the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . After the end of the Second World War , Kazimierza Wielka became the seat of a municipality. In 1956 the place became the seat of a powiat and three years later it received city rights .
politics
Town twinning
Kazimierza Wielka has partnerships with Altenstadt (Hesse) and Butschatsch (Ukraine).
Culture and sights
Buildings
- The baroque Holy Cross Church from the 17th century
- The oldest sugar factory in Poland from 1845
local community
The urban-and-rural municipality of Kazimierza Wielka has an area of 120.6 km², on which about 16,000 people live. The population fell from 18,050 in 2002 to 16,637 in 2008.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The municipality has a 375-kilometer network of roads, of which 29 kilometers are voivodeship roads ( drogi wojewódzkie ) and 94 kilometers are district roads ( drogi powiatowe ).
education
In 2005 the city had a kindergarten and a middle school ( gimnazjum ). There is also a middle school in the rural area of the municipality and ten primary schools.
Web links
- City website
- Link catalog on the topic of Kazimierza Wielka at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ ) (Polish)
Footnotes
- ↑ City website, Położenie , accessed on January 1, 2009
- ↑ a b c Website of Kazimierza Wielka, Statystyka , accessed December 31, 2008
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, “LUDNOŚĆ. STAN I STRUKTURA W PRZEKROJU TERYTORIALNYM ”, as of June 30, 2008