Stalowa Wola
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Subcarpathian | ||
| Powiat : | Stalowa Wola | ||
| Area : | 82.41 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 35 ' N , 22 ° 3' E | ||
| Residents : | 60,799 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 37-450 to 37-467 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 15 | ||
| License plate : | RST | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Przemyśl - Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski | ||
| Rail route : | Lublin - Przeworsk | ||
| Next international airport : | Rzeszów-Jasionka | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Residents: | 60,799 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Community number ( GUS ): | 1818011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2007) | |||
| City President : | Andrzej Szlęzak | ||
| Address: | ul. Wolności 7 37–450 Stalowa Wola |
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| Website : | www.stalowawola.pl | ||
Stalowa Wola is a city in southeastern Poland in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship .
geography
The city is located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in the Stalowowolski powiat on the San River . Rzeszów-Jasionka International Airport is around 60 km away .
history
The historical center of the town is the village of Pławo . It is mentioned for the first time in the 15th century as a royal settlement, with a hunting yard of King Władysław II Jagiełło , which was laid out by Casimir the Great before 1358 . The village lived mainly from hunting and agriculture .
With the first partition of Poland in 1772, Pławo came under Austrian rule. In 1837 the village was privatized and passed to the Richenbach family , to the Resinger family in 1867, and to Maximilian Francke during the First World War .
The year 1937 is the actual year the city was founded, when the Huta Stalowa Wola steelworks was built under the decisive planning of the then Polish Minister of Finance and Economics, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski . The aim was to develop a large industrial region in the center of the country, far away from the threatened borders with Germany and the Soviet Union . The name of the place was changed to Stalowa Wola (which means steel will in German).
During the Second World War , the German occupiers set up a labor camp and a ghetto until the Red Army liberated the place in 1944.
In 1945 Stalowa Wola received city rights . In 1953 the city became a district, in 1975 part of the Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship , and finally the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in 1999 .
The steel mill was named Huta Stalowa Wola in 1948 . On July 15, 1991 , the plant was privatized as Huta Stalowa Wola SA ( Hütte Stalowa Wola AG ). It specialized in the export of industrial and defense products (including construction machinery) and was a national leader in this regard in the 1990s .
Incorporations
The original village of Pławo was greatly enlarged by the steel mill in 1937. In 1973 Rozwadów and in 1977 Charzewice were incorporated into Stalowa Wola .
Regional museum
Culture house
sons and daughters of the town
- Grzegorz Rosiński (* 1941), comic artist
- Marcin Nowak (* 1977), sprinter
- Krzysztof Soszynski (* 1977), Polish-Canadian MMA fighter
Town twinning
Stalowa Wola is twinned with Snina in Slovakia and Evergem in Belgium .
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 .
- ↑ Tomasz Błażejowski: Stalowa Wola podpisała porozumienie z Belgami ( Polish ) Stalowka.NET. June 4, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2013.