Miechów
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lesser Poland | ||
| Powiat : | Miechów | ||
| Gmina : | Miechów | ||
| Area : | 15.49 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 21 ' N , 20 ° 2' E | ||
| Residents : | 11,765 (Dec. 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 32-200 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | KMI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DR7 | ||
| Rail route : | Kielce – Krakow | ||
Miechów is a town and seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the powiat Miechowski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland .
geography
The place is on the brook Miechówka in the Wyżyna Miechowska (about Miechower highlands) around 45 km north of the city of Krakow and around 80 km southwest of the city of Kielce .
history
The place was mentioned in 1163 as Mechovia (m) and in 1198 as Mechou or Meschou . The possessive name is derived from the personal name Miech .
The founder of Miechów was probably Jaksa Gryfita (who lived from around 1120 to around 1176), who, according to some historians, is the same person as Jacza von Köpenick . Probably around 1160 he founded the Norbertanerinnenklastor in Zwierzyniec near Cracow and in 1162 after his return from the Holy Land he founded the monastery of the Knightly Orders of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in Miechów ( Miechów Monastery ), which in Poland after the then village Miechów as Miechowici became known.
Miechów initially developed as a market town. In 1290, the city under German law was probably laid out on an unusually large area of around 600 free hooves and was then partially inhabited by German city citizens.
During the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Miechów and Western Galicia were annexed to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire . In 1809 it came to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 to the newly formed Russian-dominated Congress Poland . After the Republic of Krakow was spun off from the Krakow Voivodeship, Miechów was considered as a candidate for the voivodeship's new capital, but lost to Kielce .
In 1827 there were 159 houses with 1578 Christian residents, until 1862 the Jews could not live in the city. Later a synagogue was built in the city for them and an Orthodox church for the Russian officials and soldiers.
After the end of the First World War , Miechów became part of Poland and became the seat of a powiat in the Kielce Voivodeship . During the Second World War , the Miechow district was the only non-former Galician powiat to be attached to the Krakow district of the Generalgouvernement .
From 1975 to 1998 Miechów was part of the Kielce Voivodeship .
local community
The town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) includes the town of Miechów and 34 places with a school administration office .
traffic
The city of Miechów has a long-distance train station, it was also on the narrow-gauge Charsznica – Kocmyrzów railway .
Buildings
Personalities
- Jacza von Köpenick ( before 1125–1176), Prince of the Sprewanen and Polish vassal, who briefly controlled Havelland, then founder of the Miechów Monastery
- Mieczysław Maneli (1922–1994), Polish diplomat and university professor
- Julius Spokojny (1923–1996), entrepreneur, representative of the Jewish community
- Dagmara Grad (* 1990), Polish soccer player
Honorary citizen
- Carlo Cardinal Furno (1921–2015), Cardinal and Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, 1996 honorary citizen of Miechów.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kazimierz Rymut : Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego województwa krakowskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, Wrocław 1967, p. 102 (Polish, online ).
- ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): MIECHÓW ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
