Piotrków Kujawski
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Kuyavian Pomeranian | ||
| Powiat : | Radziejowski | ||
| Gmina : | Piotrków Kujawski | ||
| Area : | 9.76 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 41 ′ N , 18 ° 34 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 4493 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 88-230 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 54 | ||
| License plate : | CRA | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DW266 and DW267 | ||
| Rail route : | Kutno – Inowrocław | ||
Piotrków Kujawski (since 1954, formerly and in German Piotrkowo ) is a town in the Radziejowski powiat of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . The city with about 4500 inhabitants is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with about 9400 inhabitants.
history
Piotrkowo has been mentioned in a document since 1325. August III. granted city rights in 1738 . After the Third Partition of Poland , Piotrkowo came to Prussia , but was incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic period in 1807 . As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the city and region came to Russia via the newly established Congress Poland . After the Polish uprising in January 1863, the city rights were revoked in 1867.
During the time of the Second Polish Republic , the place belonged to the Warsaw Voivodeship and came to the Pomeranian Voivodeship from 1938 to 1950 as part of a territory swap . Since 1933, after the construction of the railway - as part of the coal main line - the importance of the place increased. During the German occupation , the place in the Hermannsbad (or Nessau) district of the Reichsgau Wartheland was renamed Petrikau in 1939 and Petrikau (Wartheland) in 1943 .
Since 1950 Piotrków belonged to the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship and from 1975-1998 to the Włocławek Voivodeship . From 1954 to 1972 the Gromada Piotrków Kujawski existed. On January 1, 1998, Piotrków Kujawski received its town charter back and the municipality got its current status.
From 1908 to the 1980s, the Piotrków Kujawski Wąskotorowy small station existed on the Nieszawa – Sompolno narrow-gauge railway . The railway was part of a beet railway network operated by the Kruszwica sugar factory .
Architectural monuments and sights
- Church of St. Jacob (św. Jakuba): The church was built in the first half of the 16th century. The owner of the village was Piotr Piotrowski, a canon in Włocławek . The church was enlarged in the neo-Gothic style in 1864 .
- Estate with mansion (around 1900, rebuilt after 1945 in simplified form) and park from the second half of the 19th century - today city park, statue of the Virgin Mary (around 1900).
- Cemetery from the first half of the 19th century.
local community
The town itself and 22 villages with school boards belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Piotrków Kujawski.
economy
Industry
PHZ SM Lacpol runs a large milk powder factory (Proszkownia Mleka) in the city .
traffic
The Piotrków Kujawski station is on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line and is served by six TLK pairs of trains Warsaw – Bydgoszcz per week.
In the city, the DW267 voivodship road branches off from the DW266.
Personalities
- Robert “Bob” Lewandowski (1920–2006), American journalist and film actor
- Waldemar Otto (1929–2020), German sculptor
- Anna Sobecka (* 1951), Polish politician
Web links
- City and municipality website (Polish)
literature
- Piotrkowo (1) . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 8 : Perepiatycha – Pożajście . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1887, p. 210 (Polish, edu.pl ).