Krasnystaw

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Krasnystaw
Krasnystaw coat of arms
Krasnystaw (Poland)
Krasnystaw
Krasnystaw
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lublin
Powiat : Krasnystaw
Area : 42.07  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 59 '  N , 23 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '5 "  N , 23 ° 9' 54"  E
Height : 218 m npm
Residents : 18,675
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 22-300
Telephone code : (+48) 82
License plate : LKS
Economy and Transport
Street : Warsaw - Lviv
Next international airport : Warsaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 150.96 km²
Residents: 18,675
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 124 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0606011
Administration (as of 2014)
Mayor : Robert Kościuk
Address: pl. 3 Maja 29
22-300 Krasnystaw
Website : www.krasnystaw.pl



Krasnystaw [ krasˈnɨstaf ] is a Polish city ​​in the Lublin Voivodeship in the Powiat Krasnystaw . It is located on the Wieprz River and has around 19,267 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2015).

history

The place was built on the land of the old Russian castle Shchekarev, which had belonged to the principality of Halych-Volhynia . In 1394 he received city rights. In 1462 the name Krasnystaw (German: beautiful pond ) appeared for the first time . From 1490 to 1826 it was the seat of the Bishops of Chełm . 1525 gave the staple right for salt and honey . During the Swedish Wars in the middle of the 17th century, the castle was destroyed and the city walls were razed. With the Third Partition of Poland , the city fell to Austria in 1795, from 1809 to 1815 it belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw , then to 1918 to the Russian Congress of Poland . From 1919 to 1975 Krasnystaw was the district town and has been again since 1999. After the First World War, the town had about 10,000 inhabitants, of which about 17% were Jews.

German occupation

In early September the Air Force bombed the station and the bridge over the Wieprz River. In mid-September 1939 the army moved in, which was driven out by the Red Army in June 1944 .

During the German occupation of Poland was first from 1939 to October 1940 Hartmut Gerstenhauer as District Chief used the circle Krasnystaw. His successor was Henning von Winterfeld until January 1941 , Claus Peter Volkmann from April to the end of June 1941, and Adolf Schmidt from July 1941 to February 1944 . In the district administration, the Department of Population and Welfare organized the deportations of the Jews. The office was headed from the autumn of 1940 to 1942 by Justice Secretary Rudolf Rieger. From 1940 to 1942 there was a ghetto for 4,000 Jews in the city limits; the inmates were later deported to the Izbica ghetto .

Various Polish resistance groups existed. A group of Bataliony Chłopskie, under the command of Stanisław Sokołowski, liberated around 300 prisoners from the local prison on the night of September 19-20, 1943. 395 prisoners were executed there during the occupation. In the spring of 1944, the resistance groups destroyed 26 German railroad trains.

Gmina

  • The city of Krasnystaw forms a municipality.
  • The independent rural community Krasnystaw has an area of ​​151 km². The following 26 localities with a Schulzenamt belong to it.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Regional museum with ethnographic, historical, numismatic, archaeological and art collections.

Buildings

  • Baroque, formerly Jesuit St. Franciszek Ksawery Church with valuable stucco furnishings and wall paintings
  • Former Jesuit college from the beginning of the 17th century
  • Bishop's palace from the 17th century
  • Holy Trinity Church (1837–1839)
  • Monastery from around 1826, it later served as a Russian barracks and after 1918 as an officers' school, 1939–1944 as a German barracks and today as a vocational school.

Regular events

In Krasnystaw every year, at the beginning of September, since 1971 the so-called Chmielaki (Hop Festival) has been celebrated, a kind of local Oktoberfest in which beer consumption plays an important role, for which many tourists from all over Poland come. But there are also many music and cultural events taking place on this occasion.

traffic

The Droga krajowa 17 , the major road 17 of Warsaw to the Polish-Ukrainian border performs Krasnystaw.

Twin cities

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Krasnystaw  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 .
  2. ↑ LEGAL CARE: Shoot into the crowd . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1951 ( online ).
  3. ^ Antoni Mieczkowski: Stanisław Sokołowski. sportowiec i żołnierz, Norbertinum, Lublin 1994.
  4. ↑ Miasta partnerskie