Nowy Targ

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Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ Coat of Arms
Nowy Targ (Poland)
Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lesser Poland
Powiat : Nowy Targ
Area : 51.07  km²
Geographic location : 49 ° 29 '  N , 20 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '40 "  N , 20 ° 1' 48"  E
Height : 585-1138 m npm
Residents : 33,357
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 34-400 to 34-403
Telephone code : (+48) 18
License plate : KNT
Economy and Transport
Street : Zakopane - Rabka-Zdrój
Rail route : Chabówka – Zakopane
Next international airport : Krakow-Balice
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Residents: 33,357
(June 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 1211011
Administration (as of 2017)
Mayor : Grzegorz Watycha
Address: ul. Krzywa 1
34-400 Nowy Targ
Website : www.nowytarg.pl



Center of Nowy Targ with a view of the Tatras
Town hall on the market square
Wooden Church of St. Anna
St. Catherine Church

Nowy Targ ( German Neumarkt , Yiddish Neymarkt ) is a Polish district town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , Powiat Nowotarski . It is the capital of the Podhale region and the Euroregion Tatry , is located on the Dunajec north of the High Tatras in the Neumarkt Basin , around 65 kilometers south of Krakow and has around 30,000 inhabitants.

history

In 1336, the town of Nowy Targ was founded under the privilege of King Casimir the Great , according to Magdeburg law on 150 Franconian hooves , on the site of the 13th century settlement of Stare Cło ( Antiquum Theoloneum ). The mentions cuius ciuitatis nomen fuit 'Nouum Forum' [1208] and que cognominata erit 'Nyemarg' vulgo 'Nowy Targ' iure Theutonice [1234 and 1238] come from documents falsified by Szczyczyc monks . Later a church was built on a hill.

In the early 14th century, there was also a major settlement in this area, which was then named Długie Pole (Latin longus Campus or Longo Prato ). In 1350 the deanery "de Longo Campo" covered the parishes Nowy Targ, Clo Stare, Chochowsow ( Klikuszowa ) Szaflary , Waksmund , Phyfer ( Ostrowsko ), Niger ( Maniowy ) Clessino ( Kluczkowce ) Sromowce Wyżne , Sromowce Niżne , Wylczsko or Wyczsko ( Szczawnica ?), Villa Ivconis ( Tylmanowa ?), later also Grywałd . Some of the names point to German settlement (probably from Silesia), the city also had a large proportion of German population.

Between 1575 and 1578 the shoemakers founded the city's first guild. In 1601 a great fire destroyed large parts of Nowy Targ, including the church. During the Swedish-Polish War , the city was badly destroyed by the Swedes in 1656. In 1710 the plague broke out in addition to a fire . On June 13, 1784, another fire destroyed large parts of the city. The first pharmacy opened in 1823. In 1880 the Nowy Targ Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed .

Before the Second World War, 1,300 Jews lived in the city, that was a fifth of the population. In May 1941, a forced ghetto was set up, in which between three and four thousand people were crammed together in August 1942 and were deported to the Belzec extermination camp . On January 29, 1945, the Red Army reached Nowy Targ. On June 8, 1979, Pope John Paul II visited the city.

Rural community

The independent rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Nowy Targ has an area of ​​208.65 km², on which 24,043 people live (June 30, 2019). The population is active in agriculture, fishing and forestry as well as tourism.

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows Saint Catherine of Alexandria on a blue background . She wears a gold crown, holds a palm frond in her left hand and a sword in her right. There is a golden wheel to the right.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Museums

Sports

economy

This city has become known nationwide for its very large open-air sales market with all everyday items, from linen, textiles to furniture, animals, cars and spare parts.

traffic

The Zakopianka expressway ( DK47 ), which connects Krakow with Zakopane , runs on the western edge of the town . In Nowy Targ, DK49 begins along the Białka to the former border crossing in Jurgów .

Nowy Targ station is on the Chabówka – Zakopane railway line . The Nowy Targ – Suchá Hora railway began here .

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Nowy Targ , 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. 536f.

Web links

Commons : Nowy Targ  - 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 December 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): CŁO STARE ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ Bogusław Krasnowolski, Zasady lokacyjnego rozmierzenia wsi podhalańskich [Principles Applied for the Measuring out of Podhalanian Villages Founded between Nowy Targ and Krościenko], [in:] Późne średniowiecze w Karpatach polskich , Rzeszów 2007, Rzeszów 2007, Rzeszów 2007.
  4. ^ Joint work: Gorce. Przewodnik dla prawdziwego turysty . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2004, ISBN 83-8918819-8 , p. 36 (Polish).
  5. ↑ Tomasz Jurek (editor): DŁUGIE POLE ( pl ) In: Słownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziem Polskich w Średniowieczu. Edycja elektroniczna . PAN . 2010-2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition, the name Nyemarg in the Middle Low German form Nye- was untypical in this area. See: Barpara Czopek-Kopciuch: Adaptacje niemieckich nazw miejscowych w języku polskim [The adaptation of German ON in Polish]. Prace Instytutu Języka Polskiego . Polska Akademia Nauk . Instytut Języka Polskiego, 1995, ISBN 83-8557933-8 , ISSN  0208-4074 , p. 81-82 (Polish, online ).