Rechyza

Rechyza | Rechitsa

Рэчыца | Речица

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

coat of arms

flag

State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Homel

Coordinates :

52 ° 22 ′ N , 30 ° 24 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ N , 30 ° 24 ′ E

Residents :

65,105 (2010)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 2340

Postal code :

247500

License plate :

3

Website :

www.rechitsa.by

Rechyza

Rechyza ( Belarusian Рэчыца , Russian Речица ) is a city in Belarus in Homelskaya Woblasz . The city has 65,105 inhabitants (2010).

geography

Catholic Church

Retschyza lies at the mouth of the Wedrich in the Dnepr .

history

Rechyza was first mentioned in 1213 .

coat of arms

Description: In silver on a cyan flag waving to the left with a blue ribbon on the flagstick, a silver armored rider on a white horse with a silver mane, tail and hooves and a blue saddlecloth wielding a silver sword and holding a silver shield with his left hand on which a red one Double cross is ( Pahonja ).

Economy and Infrastructure

Retschyza is an industrial city. The local brewery "Retschyzapiwa" was majority taken over by Heineken in 2008 .

POW camp

In the city there was the POW Hospital 3903 , which was assigned to the POW camp 189 , Gomel , for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

Sports

The town is home to the Wedrytsch-97 Retschyza football club .

sons and daughters of the town

Włodzimierz Spasowicz (1829–1906), Polish legal scholar, defense attorney and literary historian
Michel Kikoïne (1892–1968), (white) Russian-French painter
Nadseja Astaptschuk (* 1980), track and field athlete

literature

Rechitsa , 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. 650

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ BelarusNews: Heineken takes over Rechitsa brewery in Belarus ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Erich Maschke (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

[1] BelarusNews: Heineken takes over Rechitsa brewery in Belarus ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Erich Maschke (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.