Opatowiec

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Opatowiec
Coat of arms of Gmina Opatowiec
Opatowiec (Poland)
Opatowiec
Opatowiec
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Holy Cross
Powiat : Kazimierski
Gmina : Opatowiec
Geographic location : 50 ° 14 '  N , 20 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '0 "  N , 20 ° 43' 0"  E
Residents : 329 (2019)
Postal code : 28-520
Telephone code : (+48) 41
License plate : TKA



Opatowiec is a town in the Kazimierski powiat of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . The smallest city in the country with 329 inhabitants (2019) is the seat of the city-and-country municipality of the same name with around 3300 inhabitants.

geography

Townscape with church św. Jakuba (St. Jacob)

The city is 25 kilometers east of the district town of Kazimierza Wielka and borders the Vistula in the east . It is divided into the districts Krakowska Ulica, Legatka and Przedmieści.

history

The 1,271 members civic rights were revoked 1869th

The place belonged from 1975 to 1998 to the Kielce Voivodeship , since 1973 it was the seat of the rural municipality of the same name. Mayor (Burmistrz) is Sławomir Kowalczyk, he was confirmed in office in the local elections in 2018 as community leader (Wójt) .

After 150 years, Opatowiec was given back the town charter that had been revoked in 1869 on January 1, 2019 and since then has been the smallest town in Poland with 329 inhabitants.

local community

The city ​​and country community (gmina wiejska) Opatowiec includes the city itself and 20 villages with a school administration office . The parish covers an area of ​​68.6 square kilometers.

literature

  • Magdalena Komorowska: Gmina Opatowiec - wczoraj i dziś . 2014. ISBN 978-83-939671-0-0
  • Opatowiec , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 548

Web links

Commons : Opatowiec  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 10 nowych miast w Polsce od 2019 roku . Retrieved January 1, 2019