Rzeszów

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Rzeszów
Rzeszów Coat of Arms
Rzeszów (Poland)
Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Subcarpathian
Powiat : District-free city
Area : 115.80  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 3 ′  N , 22 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 221 m npm
Residents : 194,886
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 35-001 to 35-959
Telephone code : (+48) 17
License plate : RZ
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Rzeszów-Jasionka
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 115.80 km²
Residents: 194,886
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 1683 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1863011
Administration (as of 2012)
City President : Tadeusz Ferenc
Address: Rynek 1
35-064 Rzeszów
Website : www.erzeszow.pl



Lubomirski Castle in Rzeszów
Old town
Marketplace

Audio file / audio sample Rzeszów ? / i [ ˈʒɛʃuf ] is a city in southeasternPoland, the capital and important center ofthe Subcarpathian Voivodeshipwith 194,886 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019). Between 1941 and 1945, the place wascalledReichshofunderGerman occupation.

geography

Rzeszów is located in the Wisłok river plain on the edge of the Sandomierz basin not far from the Carpathian Mountains . The proximity to the border with Ukraine (distance 90 km) and Slovakia (100 km) has made the city an important transport hub.

history

The name Resovia was first mentioned in 1354, when it was elevated to a town under Magdeburg law. At the beginning of the 15th century, the name of the place was given in a source under the German name Resche . Since the conquest of Galicia by Władysław II. Jagiełło in 1387, the city belonged to the Kingdom of Poland until the First Partition of Poland in 1772 , when it fell to the Habsburg Monarchy until the end of the First World War to a newly founded Poland .

Time of World War II and Holocaust

At the time of the German attack on Poland , around 14,000 Jews were living in Rzeszów; the city was captured by the Wehrmacht on September 10, 1939. Under the German occupation , the city belonged to the Generalgouvernement . In December 1941 a ghetto was established. The first mass deportations were carried out in July 1942: the Jewish population in the area was brought together in the ghetto and around 22,000 Jews were deported to the Belzec extermination camp . Previously there were already shootings in the face of passive resistance. A group of around 1,000 people was murdered in a nearby forest. In November 1942, 3,000 Jews were still living in the ghetto, which has now been converted into a forced labor camp . Part A was for the forced laborers, while their families were housed in Part B. In September 1943 the forced laborers were sent to the Szebnie labor camp, where most of them perished . Her relatives were deported to Auschwitz in November 1943 and murdered. Only 600 people survived in a local labor camp until July 1944, and some managed to escape to the surrounding forests.

After rumors of the murder of a Christian girl surfaced in the city, the Polish police arrested all of Rzeszów's Jews on June 1, 1945 and led them through the city amid an angry crowd while the homes of the arrested Jews were ransacked. After their release on the same day, more than 200 Jews fled Rzeszów. This meant that there was no restoration of Jewish life in the city after 1945.

culture and education

Rzeszów is the bishopric . In the city there is a state university , the Politechnikum Rzeszów and several private universities, including the University of Computer Science and Management.

economy

Rzeszów is home to many international corporations associated with the aviation industry. These include United Technologies Corporation . Aviation companies, scientific research centers and pilot training facilities make up the Aviation Valley, the aviation cluster around Rzeszów, where 90% of the production volume of the Polish aviation industry is generated. In addition to the aviation industry, the pharmaceutical company Valeant is present, as well as Cefarm Rzeszów and the IT company Asseco Poland .

traffic

Not far from the city is the recently modernized Rzeszów-Jasionka International Airport . The A4 motorway and the S19 expressway run through Rzeszów .

Sports

CWKS Resovia, one of the oldest Polish football clubs, is based in Rzeszów .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town:

Honorary Citizen of the City:

politics

City President

At the head of the city administration is a city ​​president who is directly elected by the population. Since 2002 this has been Tadeusz Ferenc from the SLD .

In the 2018 election, Ferenc ran its own election committee. The vote brought the following result:

  • Tadeusz Ferenc (Election Committee Tadeusz Ferenc for Rzeszów) 63.8% of the vote
  • Wojciech Buczak ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 28.9% of the vote
  • Maciej Masłowski ( Kukiz'15 ) 3.6% of the vote
  • Krzysztof Kaszuba (independent) 2.6% of the vote
  • Remaining 1.2% of the vote

Incumbent Ferenc was thus re-elected in the first ballot.

City council

The city council consists of 25 members and is directly elected. The 2018 city council election led to the following result:

  • Election Committee Tadeusz Ferenc for Rzeszów 43.5% of the vote, 12 seats
  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 33.2% of the vote, 9 seats
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 15.3% of the vote, 4 seats
  • Kukiz'15 5.6% of the vote, no seat
  • KORWiN 2.2% of the votes, no seat
  • Remaining 0.3% of the vote, no seat

Twin cities

Rzeszów lists the following thirteen twin cities :

city country since
Bielefeld DEU Bielefeld COA.svg GermanyGermany North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 1991
Buffalo Seal of Buffalo, New York.svg United StatesUnited States New York, United States 1975
Kherson COA of Kherson 1995.svg UkraineUkraine Ukraine
Fangchenggang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Guangxi, People's Republic of China 2011
Gainesville United StatesUnited States Florida, United States 2013
Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk coa.png UkraineUkraine Ukraine 2000
Klagenfurt AUT Klagenfurt COA.svg AustriaAustria Carinthia, Austria 1975
Košice SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 1991
Lamia Lamia-Logo.jpg GreeceGreece Greece 2005
Lviv Coat of arms of Lviv.svg UkraineUkraine Ukraine 1992
Lutsk Herb Lutsk.svg UkraineUkraine Volyn, Ukraine 2001
Nyíregyháza HUN Nyíregyháza Címer.svg HungaryHungary Észak-Alföld, Hungary 1996
Satu Mare Interbelic Satu Mare CoA.png RomaniaRomania Romania 2007
Split Coat of arms of Split.svg CroatiaCroatia Dalmatia, Croatia 2018

panorama

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Panoramic view of Rzeszów

See also

Web links

Commons : Rzeszów  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ "niemieckie zapiski ksiąg miejskich lwowskich i przemyskich z pierwszej połowy XV wieku, gdy mówią o Rzeszowie, pisząc Resche, Resze lub Rezsche" in: Pięć wieków miasta Rzeszowa, 1958, p. XVIII .:; "Znane są XV-wieczne zapisy Rzeszowa w innej postaci niemieckiej Resche (por. Von Resche 1410, von Rezsche, kegen Resze 1438)." In: Władysław Makarski. Roczniki humanistyczne, Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1983. T. 33, p. 70
  3. ^ Jewish Virtual Library, Article Rzeszow, accessed on May 14, 2014
  4. ^ Jan T. Gross: Kielce. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3: He-Lu. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02503-6 , p. 345.
  5. ↑ Aviation Industry . poland.gov.pl. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  6. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 29, 2020.
  8. ^ Serwis informacyjny UM Rzeszów - Miasta partnerskie Rzeszowa. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ according to the representation on the Ukrainian side of Kherson