Przysucha
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Mazovia | ||
| Powiat : | Przysucha | ||
| Gmina : | Przysucha | ||
| Area : | 7.81 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 21 ' N , 20 ° 38' E | ||
| Residents : | 5978 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 26-400 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 48 | ||
| License plate : | WPY | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Piotrków Trybunalski - Radom | ||
| Rail route : | Drzewica – Radom | ||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport | ||
| administration | |||
| Mayor : | Tadeusz Tomasik | ||
Przysucha is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in Poland. It has about 6,000 inhabitants and is the seat of the powiat Przysuski and the town-and-country municipality of the same name with about 12,000 inhabitants.
history
The first written mention comes from the year 1415. In 1710 Przysucha was raised to the rank of town. Many craftsmen came from Saxony and Silesia . In 1723 the city became the center of Hasidism . In 1777 there were 39 German, 85 Jewish and 29 Polish houses in Przysucha. On September 6, 1939, over 70 houses were destroyed by aerial bombs. The authorities of the Third Reich established a ghetto in Przysucha; 5000 Jews perished in the Treblinka extermination camp between October 27 and 31, 1942 .
local community
The urban-and-rural parish covers an area of 181 square kilometers.
Personalities
- Oskar Kolberg (1814–1890), Polish ethnographer and composer
- Jaakow Jizchak von Przysucha (1766-1814), Hasidic rabbi and tzaddik
- Simcha Bunem von Przysucha (1765-1827), Hasidic tzaddik in Poland
- The family of Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006), US Secretary of Defense in the government of President Ronald Reagan between 1981 and 1987, came from Przysucha .
literature
- Czesław Tadeusz Zwolski, Radom i region Radomski . Wydawnictwo regionalne "Radomka", Radom 2003. ISBN 83-918093-0-7
- Przysucha , 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. 621f.
