Rzeszów
Rzeszów | ||
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Subcarpathian | |
Powiat : | District-free city | |
Area : | 115.80 km² | |
Geographic location : | 50 ° 3 ′ N , 22 ° 0 ′ E | |
Height : | 221 m npm | |
Residents : | 194,886 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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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) |
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Population density : | 1683 inhabitants / km² | |
Community number ( GUS ): | 1863011 | |
Administration (as of 2012) | ||
City President : | Tadeusz Ferenc | |
Address: | Rynek 1 35-064 Rzeszów |
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Website : | www.erzeszow.pl |
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:
- Marek Bałata (* 1955), jazz musician and graphic artist
- Jerzy Bandrowski (1883–1940), Polish writer, journalist and translator
- Stan Borys (* 1941), rock singer, in the Załęże district
- Amalia Carneri (1875–1942), Austrian opera singer
- Jan Domarski (* 1946), football player
- Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), theater director
- Stanisław Jamrozek (* 1960), auxiliary bishop in Przemyśl
- Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (1885–1944), Polish prose writer and publicist
- Tomasz Kamiński (* 1979), politician
- Dawid Kostecki (1981-2019), light heavyweight professional boxer
- Władysław Kruczek (1910–2003), politician
- Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski (1647–1706), magnate and politician
- Leopold Löffler (1827–1898), painter
- Vitold Rek (* 1955), double bass player, jazz musician
- Anja Rubik (* 1983), model
- Tomasz Stańko (1942–2018), jazz trumpeter
- Marek Stefański (* 1969), organist
- Józef Szajna (1922–2008), painter, writer, director, stage designer, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, former Auschwitz prisoner
- Wilhelm Turteltaub (1816 - after 1859), Austrian doctor and writer
- Chiel Weissmann (1883–1974), Swiss businessman, film producer and distributor
- Stanisław Wisłocki (1921–1998), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Konrad Wysocki (* 1982), professional basketball player, player in the German national basketball team
- Fred Zinnemann (1907–1997, actually Alfred Zinnemann), Austrian-American film director
Honorary Citizen of the City:
- Rafał Wilk (* 1974), paracycler and speedway driver
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 |
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Bielefeld | North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 1991 |
Buffalo | New York, United States | 1975 |
Kherson | Ukraine | |
Fangchenggang | Guangxi, People's Republic of China | 2011 |
Gainesville | Florida, United States | 2013 |
Ivano-Frankivsk | Ukraine | 2000 |
Klagenfurt | Carinthia, Austria | 1975 |
Košice | Slovakia | 1991 |
Lamia | Greece | 2005 |
Lviv | Ukraine | 1992 |
Lutsk | Volyn, Ukraine | 2001 |
Nyíregyháza | Észak-Alföld, Hungary | 1996 |
Satu Mare | Romania | 2007 |
Split | Dalmatia, Croatia | 2018 |
panorama
See also
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 .
- ↑ "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
- ^ Jewish Virtual Library, Article Rzeszow, accessed on May 14, 2014
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Aviation Industry . poland.gov.pl. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 29, 2020.
- ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 29, 2020.
- ^ Serwis informacyjny UM Rzeszów - Miasta partnerskie Rzeszowa. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
- ↑ according to the representation on the Ukrainian side of Kherson