Poddębice

Poddębice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Łódź
Powiat :	Poddębice
Area :	5.89 km²
Geographic location :	51 ° 54 ′ N , 18 ° 58 ′ E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N , 18 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E
Residents :	7399 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	99-200
Telephone code :	(+48) 43
Economy and Transport
Street :	Łódź - Poznan
Next international airport :	Łódź
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure:	29 localities
Surface:	225.00 km²
Residents:	15,575 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	1011033
Administration (as of 2011)
Mayor :	Piotr Sęczkowski
Address:	ul. Łódzka 17/21 ; 99-200 Poddębice
Website :	www.gmina.poddebice.pl
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Poddębice ( German Poddembice , Poddembitz , 1943-1945 Wandalenbrück ) is a city in Poland in the Łódź Voivodeship on the Ner River . Poddębice is the seat of the Powiat Poddębicki and the capital of an urban and rural municipality .

history

The first mention of Poddębices comes from the year 1388. Around 1400 the place received the city charter for the first time. However, this was later revoked, because in 1673 the place is only mentioned as a village.

During the second partition of Poland , the place became part of Prussia in 1793 . With the formation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 he became part of the same and in 1815 part of Congress Poland . Seven years later a cloth factory was established. In the same year the place received city rights again. During the January uprising of 1863 there was also fighting near Poddębice. During the administrative reform in 1870 by Tsar Alexander II , the place lost its town charter again like many other cities in Poland. In 1901 the local volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1933 it was connected to the rail network , and a year later Poddębice was given town charter again.

On September 9, 1939, the Wehrmacht marched into the town. In November 1940 a ghetto was set up for the Jewish population. The approximately 1400 Jews from Poddębice had to live in it; another 600 from the surrounding towns were added. The ghetto was dissolved in March 1942. Its inmates were deported to the Kulmhof extermination camp . Office commissioner of Poddębice at this time was Franz Heinrich Bock , whose diary entries were later published. The Second World War ended for the place on January 18, 1945 with the invasion of the Red Army .

A lyceum was opened that same year. On January 1, 1956, the place became the seat of its own powiat . Through an administrative reform in 1975, the place became part of the Sieradz Voivodeship and the seat of a Gmina (municipality). Another reform brought the place back the seat of the district ( Powiat Poddębicki ) as part of the Łódź Voivodeship .

Literature and films on history

In Germany, Poddębice became known through the “Wartheländische Tagebuch 1941-42” and a documentary film by Hans-Dieter Grabe, “He called himself Hohenstein” (D, 1994) and the resulting film “Epilog: Three Women from Poddembice” (D , 1995) known. Together they were both awarded the Berlin International Film Festival's Peace Film Prize. It traces the German occupation policy in World War II on an individual level.

The palace in Poddębice

local community

The urban and rural community ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) Poddębice is divided into the following 28 districts in addition to its main town of the same name:

Adamów, Antonina, Balin, Bałdrzychów, Borzewisko, Chropy, Dominikowice, Dzierzązna, Ewelinów, Feliksów, Gibaszew, Golice, Góra Bałdrzychowska (with the village of Busina), Góra Bałdrzychowska - Kolonia, Grocholice -, Józełów -, Józełów Klementów, Kobylniki, Krępa, Ksawercin, Leśnik, Lipki, Lipnica, Lubiszewice, Łężki, Malenie, Niemysłów , Niewiesz, Niewiesz - Kolonia, Nowa wieś, Nowy Pudłów, Panaszew, Podgórze, Porczyny, Praga , Sworawa (with the villages of Bliźnia, Jabłonka and Małe), Szarów, Tarnowa, Tumusin, Wilczków, Wólka, Zagórzyce.

traffic

The Poddębice service station is on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line .

sons and daughters of the town

Andrzej Błasik (1962–2010), commander of the Polish Air Force and victim of the plane crash near Smolensk
Günther Göllner (* 1941), German ski jumper

literature

Poddębice , 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. 604

Web links

Commons : Poddębice - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the municipality (German, Polish, English)
Link catalog on the subject of Poddębice at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ ) (Polish)

German Army Map (1944) - Wandalenbrueck (Poddembitz) XI.1944

Individual evidence

↑ ^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 .
↑ ^a ^b Sascha Feuchert (Ed.): The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, Litzmannstadt. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , p. 374.
↑ ^a ^b Hohenstein, Alexander (pseudonym for Franz Heinrich Bock): Wartheländisches Tagebuch from the years 1941/42 , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1961.

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] 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 .

[Feuchert-2] Sascha Feuchert (Ed.): The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, Litzmannstadt. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , p. 374.

[Hohenstein-3] Hohenstein, Alexander (pseudonym for Franz Heinrich Bock): Wartheländisches Tagebuch from the years 1941/42 , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1961.