Raków (Częstochowa)
Raków is one of the largest districts in the southeast of Częstochowa .
history
In 1377 there gave the Duke Wladislaus II of Opole , who was liege duke of Wieluń from 1370-1392 , the right of an iron hammer in Błeszno (today another part of Częstochowa) to the brothers Jaśko and Niczko. The property-indicating (the suffix -ów) name Raków (from the personal name Rak ) was first mentioned in 1631 as an urban forest.
After the second partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the area belonged to South Prussia . In 1809 it came to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 to the newly formed Russian-dominated Congress Poland .
The modern development of Raków is closely related to the local hut. The Częstochowa area has always been known for iron ore . The opening of the Warsaw-Vienna railway made it easier to access coal from the Dombrowa coal basin and to export it. The area of the local Vorwerk was bought by Bernard Hantke in 1895 and designated for the hut. It was built between 1896 and 1902. The largest workers' settlement with a school and church in the vicinity of Częstochowa was also built . In 1904 it was electrified.
After the end of the First World War it became part of Poland and belonged to the municipality of Stara Huta B in the powiat Częstochowski in the Kielce Voivodeship .
In 1921 the Racovia football club , today Raków Częstochowa, was founded. The residents fought for several years to be incorporated into Częstochowa, which happened in 1928 when the settlement had 7,000 inhabitants. The XI district of Raków had the largest number of inhabitants after the inner city and actually had the character of an independent town.
After the Second World War, Raków was again expanded in a socialist-realistic style , then also with the prefabricated housing estates. It was connected to the Częstochowa tram .
The Częstochowa Hut
Hantke Palace from 1900–1903
The old workers' settlement in 1993
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ' N , 19 ° 9' E