Ropczyce
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Subcarpathian | ||
| Powiat : | Ropczycko-Sędziszowski | ||
| Gmina : | Ropczyce | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 5 ' N , 21 ° 38' E | ||
| Height : | 265 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 15,763 (Dec. 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 39-100 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 17 | ||
| License plate : | RRS | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK 4 , ext. 986 | ||
| Rail route : | Vienna - Lviv | ||
| Next international airport : | Rzeszów-Jasionka | ||
Ropczyce is a city in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with about 27,200 inhabitants and the powiat Ropczycko-Sędziszowski .
geography
The city is located 120 km east of Kraków and 28 km west of Rzeszów and lies on the Wielopolka River .
history
Until 1772
The place was first mentioned in a document in 1254. In 1266 the village was destroyed by Lithuanian and Russian troops. Ropczyce was granted city charter under Magdeburg law on March 3, 1362 by King Casimir the Great . In 1439 the parish school was established. In 1504 the city was destroyed by the Tatars. In 1655 the city was occupied by the Swedes.
1772 to 1939
By the partition of Poland in 1772 Ropczyce fell to Habsburg-Lothringen . In 1855 the powiat Ropczycko was formed. In the years from 1856 to 1858 the city was connected to the Vienna - Lemberg railway line . Ropczyce remained part of Galicia until the end of the First World War in 1918.
In 1937 Ropczyce lost the seat of the Powiat to Dębica .
1939 until today
On September 7, 1939, the Wehrmacht occupied the city. The Jewish population was imprisoned in a labor camp. In 1942 she was partially shot. The remainder were taken to the Pustków camp and the Belzec extermination camp . The Polish population was also used for forced labor . In 1944 the city was liberated by the Soviet army . In the following months there was fighting between the communists and the Polish Home Army .
In 1956 Ropczyce was again a district town and remained so until 1975. From 1975 to 1998 it belonged to the Rzeszów Voivodeship . Over the years, several companies have settled in the city, including a magnesite plant and a sugar factory.
In 1999 Ropczyce was again a district town. In 2000, an agricultural engineering college was founded in the city.
Attractions
- Pilgrimage Church - Mary Queen of the Family
- Parish church
- Jewish Cemetery
local community
The municipality has nine villages with school administration offices, it has an area of 139 km².
Twin cities
traffic
Droga krajowa 4 runs through Ropczyce and is crossed here by Voivodship Road 986 ( Droga wojewódzka 986 ). Ropczyce is on the Vienna - Lviv railway line.
The Rzeszóz airport is 30 km away.
sons and daughters of the town
- Rabbi Naftali von Ropschütz , Hasidic Master 1760–1827
- Maciej Kuciapa , speedway driver
- Józef Mehoffer (1869–1946), painter
- Grzegorz Kopala , Polish composer, musician
- Marcin Daniec , an artist, satirist
- Jan Zwierz , a priest, social activist
- Karol Olszewski (1846–1915), physicist and chemist.
literature
- Ropczyce , 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. 663
Web links
- City website (Polish)
- Website for the pilgrimage church (German)
Footnotes
- ↑ University of Klagenfurt ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 ( Memento from April 8, 2009 on WebCite ) (Polish)
- ↑ Report on the Church ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2009 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. (German)
