Nowy Sącz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nowy Sącz
Nowy Sącz coat of arms
Nowy Sącz (Poland)
Nowy Sącz
Nowy Sącz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : District-free city
Area : 57.00  km²
Geographic location : 49 ° 37 ′  N , 20 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 290 m npm
Residents : 83,813
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 33-300
Telephone code : (+48) 18
License plate : KN
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 28 Rabka-Zdrój - Jasło
DK 75 Brzesko - Muszynka
DK 87 Nowy Sącz– Piwniczna-Zdrój
Rail route : Tarnów – Muszyna
Chabówka – Nowy Sącz
Next international airport : Krakow-Balice
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 57.00 km²
Residents: 83,813
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 1470 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1262011
Administration (as of 2018)
City President : Ludomir Handzel
Address: Rynek 1
33-300 Nowy Sącz
Website : www.nowysacz.pl



Nowy Sącz [ ˈnɔvɘ̟ˈsɔ̃ʈ͡ʂ ] ( German : Neu Sandez or older Neu Sandec ; Hungarian : Újszandec ) is a town in the Polish Lesser Poland Voivodeship and has about 84,000 inhabitants. The town lies north of the Sacz Beskid (Beskid Sadecki) in a valley widening at the mouth of Kamienica in the Dunajec to 290 m above sea level and is a regional industrial and service center.

history

The place was laid out in 1292 by King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia , and he received town charter in the 14th century from Władysław I. Ellenlang . According to Kurt Lück , German residents made up about 3/4 of the city's population in the 15th century. Only in 1469 was a Polish priest installed in the parish church.

Special privileges granted by Casimir the Great made the city rise rapidly. The devastating fire of 1611, epidemics and wars then caused the decline.

From 1772 the city belonged to the Austrian crown land of Galicia and became an important administrative center there, from 1774 to 1782 briefly the seat of a district office, was then converted into a district office until 1876 and was then in Galicia until the end of Austrian rule (fell to Poland in 1918 ) Seat of a district administration . In the course of the Josephine colonization , 235 German families were settled in the area of ​​Nowy Sącz. Officials and craftsmen from German-speaking countries also came to the city. In 1800 a Protestant congregation was organized in the Franciscan Church. In the first half of the 19th century the place became an important center of Hasidism , here Chaim Halberstam worked as a rabbi from 1830.

During the First World War , the main command of part of the Eastern Front ( Przemyśl ) of the allied troops of Austria-Hungary and the German Empire was in Neu Sandez for a short time . Before the Second World War, 10,000 Jews lived in Nowy Sącz, that was a third of the population. In July 1941 the Jewish inhabitants were ghettoized, in August 1942 about 20,000 Jews lived in the ghetto before they were deported to the Belzec extermination camp .

The city and its eastern surroundings (see Lemkenland ) had for a long time an important Ruthenian or Ukrainian (1928 the name was officially changed from Ruthenian to Ukrainian ) population, many of them Lemken , but who also developed a separate identity for the most part. After the end of the Second World War, most of the Lemks and Ukrainians were deported to the Soviet Union as part of the Vistula Action , where they mostly settled in the Ukrainian SSR .

From 1975 to 1998 Nowy Sącz was the capital of the Nowy Sącz Voivodeship .

  • Nowy Sącz in the 19th century

  • German military police in 1915

  • town hall

Politics and administration

City President

At the head of the city administration is the city ​​president . From 2006 to 2018, this was Ryszard Nowak ( PiS ), who was no longer elected by his party in the regular election in October 2018. The result was as follows:

  • Iwona Mularczyk ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 28.4% of the vote
  • Ludomir Handzel (Election Committee “National Coalition Ludomir Handzel”) 25.8% of the votes
  • Krzysztof Głuc (Election Committee Krzysztof Głuc “I elect Nowy Sącz”) 20.6% of the vote
  • Leszek Zegzda ( Koalicja Obywatelska ) 16.0% of the vote
  • Małgorzata Belska (Election Committee “Małgorzata Belska, Lucjan Stępień - for a New Nowy Sącz”) 5.3% of the vote
  • Jerzy Gwiżdż (Jerzy Gwiżdż Election Committee “Self-Government for Nowy Sącz”) 3.4% of the vote
  • Remaining 1.2% of the vote

In the runoff election that became necessary, Handzel, the runner-up in the first round, prevailed against the PiS candidate Mularczyk with 58.4% of the votes and became the new mayor.

City council

The city council has 23 members who are directly elected. The election in October 2018 led to the following result:

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 34.0% of the vote, 9 seats
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 20.3% of the vote, 5 seats
  • Election committee Krzysztof Głuc “I vote Nowy Sącz” 20.1% of the vote, 5 seats
  • Election Committee "National Coalition Ludomir Handzel" 15.5% of the vote, 4 seats
  • Election committee "Małgorzata Belska, Lucjan Stępień - for a new Nowy Sącz" 3.7% of the vote, no seat
  • Jerzy Gwiżdż Electoral Committee “Self-Government for Nowy Sącz” 3.4% of the vote, no seat
  • Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD) / Lewica Razem (Razem) 3.0% of the votes, no seat

Town twinning

Panorama with Tatras in the background
St. Margaret's Basilica
open air museum

Nowy Sącz has 12 town partnerships:

The city of Schwerte suspended the partnership on IDAHOBIT 2020 after the Polish city declared itself an "LGBT-ideology-free" zone .

Worth seeing

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities associated with the city

  • Ernst Hein (1887–1950), city commissioner 1939/40
  • Emanuel Ringelblum (1900–1944), Polish-Jewish historian, politician, educator and publicist, spent his youth here

literature

  • Nowy Sącz , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 532-536

Web links

Commons : Nowy Sącz  - album with 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 on December 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Bogdan Mościcki: Beskid Sądecki. Przewodnik . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918865-6 , p. 204-209 (Polish).
  3. ↑ German settlement of Malopolska and Rotreussens in the 15th century . Edited u. drawn by Kurt Lück, 1934.
  4. ↑ Colony Józefa (PDF) (Polish)
  5. ↑ History of the Jews in Nowy Sącz (Polish)
  6. ↑ Witold Grzesik Tomasz Traczyk, Bartłomiej Wada: Beskid Niski od Komańczy do Wysowej . Sklep Podróżniczy, Warszawa 2012, ISBN 978-83-7136-087-9 , p. 391 (Polish).
  7. ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CN%5CO%5CNowySJ8cz.htm
  8. ↑ Magdalena Palka: The forgotten people of the Lemken. An ethnic minority in search of their identity . Vienna 2012 ( Online [PDF]).
  9. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 16, 2020.
  10. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 16, 2020.
  11. ↑ Queer.de: Schwerte suspends town twinning with Poland. May 17, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Stephan Wendehorst (ed.). (2015): The Anatomy of Early Modern Empires: Rule Management Beyond State and Nation. Oldenburg, Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-486-57911-6 .