Lesko
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Subcarpathian | ||
| Powiat : | Leski | ||
| Gmina : | Lesko | ||
| Area : | 15.09 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 28 ' N , 22 ° 20' E | ||
| Residents : | 5529 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 38-600 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 13 | ||
Lesko (until 1931 Lisko ) is a town in the powiat Leski of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in southeastern Poland . The city with around 5500 inhabitants is the seat of the city-and-country municipality of the same name with around 11,500 inhabitants.
Lesko lies in the Bieszczady on a hill above the San .
history
Lesko was first mentioned in a document in 1436. Under King Casimir IV Jagellonicus , Lesko received city rights in 1470 . During this time the city belonged to the Kmites ( Andreas Kmita de Wisnicze , frater germanus Petri Capitanei Scepusiensis et Stanislai , 1487), a resident ruling family who built the castle, which is still preserved today, at the beginning of the 16th century. The late Gothic parish church was built around 1538 and the cathedral followed in 1896. During the Northern War the Swedes plundered and devastated the city for two weeks, Magnus Stenbock's liberating troops continued to plunder because the soldiers had not received any pay.
In 1772 the place came under the name Lisko to the Austrian Galicia and from 1867 it was the seat of a district authority . In 1918 the place came to the Second Polish Republic and became the seat of the Powiat Lisko within the Lviv Voivodeship , in 1931 the city was renamed Lesko.
In September 1939, after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , the place came to the Soviet Union and under its Russian name Lisko (Лиско) became the capital of Ujesd Lisko within the Drogobytsch Oblast , from January 10, 1940 the seat of the Lisko Rajon . After the start of the German-Soviet War in June 1941, Lesko was occupied by Germany and incorporated into the Generalgouvernement , Krakow district, district chief Sanok. After the reconquest by the Red Army on October 17, 1944, the town became part of the Soviet Union again, and in March 1945 the town and the surrounding Rajon were returned to Poland.
Attractions
- The Kmit family castle dates back to 1550; it was devastated many times in the following years and was also subject to structural changes.
- The parish church has been rebuilt several times since it was built in 1539 and received a free-standing, baroque bell tower between 1725 and 1765
- The former municipal synagogue was built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and destroyed during the German occupation in World War II. After the reconstruction between 1960 and 1963, it was no longer used for sacred purposes. Today it is used as a sales room for arts and crafts.
- Graves from the 16th to 20th centuries can still be found in the Jewish cemetery near the synagogue.
local community
The urban and rural community of Lesko consists of the city of Lesko and 14 school boards.
Web links
- City website (Polish)
- Link catalog on Lesko at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ ) (Polish)