Rawa Mazowiecka
| Rawa Mazowiecka | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Łódź | ||
| Powiat : | Rawa Mazowiecka | ||
| Area : | 13.67 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 46 ′ N , 20 ° 15 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 17,320 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 96-200 and 96-201 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 46 | ||
| License plate : | Adult | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK8 | ||
| DK72 | |||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Residents: | 17,320 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Community number ( GUS ): | 1013011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2007) | |||
| Mayor : | Eugeniusz Góraj | ||
| Address: | pl. Piłsudskiego 5 96-200 Rawa Mazowiecka |
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| Website : | www.rawamazowiecka.pl | ||
Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in the Powiat Rawski in the Łódź Voivodeship , Poland . It has the status of a township . It is also the seat of the rural community of the same name ( gmina wiejska ), to which it does not belong.
geography
Rawa Mazowiecka is located 55 km east of Łódź at the confluence of the Rawka and Rylka rivers . The city has an area of 13.67 km². 63% of the urban area is used for agriculture, 3% is covered with forest.
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1228, but the original location of the place is not known. The city charter was Rawa Mazowiecka 1321. 1355 bis 1370, the castle was the Duke of Mazovia built here, the ruins of which are found in the vicinity of the place today.
During the reign of Siemowits III. was the place the capital of Mazovia. In 1462 the Duchy of Rawa became the Rawa Voivodeship . Rawa Mazowiecka was one of the largest cities in Mazovia at that time. In 1613 there was already the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Kosciół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Marii Panny ) in Rawa Mazowiecka. In 1622 a Jesuit college was set up, in which Jan Chryzostom Pasek also taught.
During the Northern Wars , the site was occupied and destroyed by the Swedes , and the castle was one of the destroyed buildings. During the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the city became part of Prussia and the Rawa Voivodeship was dissolved. From 1807 the place became the seat of a district instead. In 1807 the place became part of the newly formed Duchy of Warsaw and eight years later Congress Poland .
During the First World War , Rawa Mazowiecka was almost completely destroyed. At the beginning of the Second World War, 2500 Jews lived in Rawa, that was a third of the population. They were ghettoized and murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp in October 1942 .
In 1945 the Red Army marched into the city, which was about 80% destroyed.
From 1975 to 1998 the city was part of the Skierniewice Voivodeship .
Town twinning
traffic
Droga krajowa 8 and Droga krajowa 72 intersect in the city and Droga wojewódzkas 707, 725 and 726 run through the city.
The museum narrow-gauge railway Rogów – Rawa – Biała Rawska runs through the city and has a train station there.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Prof. Eugeniusz Walczuk
- Sławek Wierzcholski
- Bishop Józef Zawitkowski
- Prelate Mieczyslaw Iwanicki
- Elżbieta Dedek
sons and daughters of the town
- Ludwik Maurycy Hirszfeld (1814–1876), doctor and professor for anatomy in Warsaw
- Halina Konopacka (1900–1989), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- Slawomir Broniarz, chairman of Związek Nauczycielstwa Polskiego
- Tomasz Dedek, actor
- Jan Antoni Grabowski, writer and educator
- Edith Kucharska, volleyball player
- Edward Pietrzyk, General
- Radoslaw Rybak, volleyball player
- Janusz Wojciechowski (* 1954), politician
Personalities associated with the city
- Jan Chryzostom Pasek Polish chronicler in the Baroque era
Rural community
The rural community of Rawa Mazowiecka has 8,648 inhabitants. It has an area of 163.98 km². 78% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 15% is covered with forest.
literature
- Rawa Mazowiecka , 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. 647f.
Web links
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 .
- ↑ regioset.pl for the city (Polish / English), accessed October 9, 2010.
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)
- ^ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, “Ludność. Stan i Struktura w przekroju terytorialnym “ ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). As of June 30, 2010.
- ↑ regioset.pl for the rural community (Polish / English), accessed October 9, 2010.