Siedlce

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Siedlce
Siedlce coat of arms
Siedlce (Poland)
Siedlce
Siedlce
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Mazovia
Powiat : District-free city
Area : 32.00  km²
Geographic location : 52 ° 11 ′  N , 22 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 155 m npm
Residents : 77,990
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 08-100 to 08-119
Telephone code : (+48) 25
License plate : WS
Economy and Transport
Street : E 30 Terespol - Warsaw
Rail route : Terespol - Warsaw
Next international airport : Warsaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 32.00 km²
Residents: 77,990
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 2437 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1464011
Administration (as of 2018)
City President : Andrzej Sitnik
Address: Skwer Niepodległości 2
08-110 Siedlce
Website : www.siedlce.pl/deutsch/



Siedlce ( 'ɕεdlʦε ) is an independent city in Poland in the Masovian Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The city is about 80 km away between Warsaw and the border town Terespol on the European route 30 .

climate

Temperatures fluctuate on average between 12.2 ° C and 23.9 ° C in the summer months and between −4 ° C and 1.2 ° C in winter. The mean annual rainfall is 552 mm.

history

The first written mention of the place comes from 1448 in documents about the determination of the church tithing of the Kraków bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki . On January 15, 1547 the place received the Magdeburg town charter from Sigismund I under the name Nowa Siedlcza . The town was owned by the Olędzki family. The town hall was built from 1763 to 1773. King Stanislaus II August stayed in Siedlce in 1783. In 1791 the mausoleum chapel was built. In 1795, during the Third Partition of Poland , the city fell to Austria and became a district town. Until 1807 the city was privately owned by different families. In 1807 the owners gave up the town in exchange for land near Lublin .

From 1810 to 1815, during the time of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw , the city became part of the same and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship . From 1815 to 1915 Siedlce belonged to the Russian Empire as part of Congress Poland and was the capital of a governorate . The post office was built in 1827. At the beginning of the 19th century the city, half of which was inhabited by Jews , developed very well. In 1854 a fire slowed the boom and destroyed around 45% of the city. In 1865 another fire raged and destroyed around 100 houses. In 1867 the city was connected to the rail network that now connects it with Warsaw and Terespol . In 1869 the Church of the Holy Spirit was opened. In 1884 the expansion of the rail network was completed. The city thus had a direct connection to Małkinia . In 1892 the construction of the Jewish hospital was completed. After the end of the First World War , the city became the seat of a powiat in the Lublin Voivodeship . Of the approximately 41,000 inhabitants of the city, 37% were Jewish .

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the district and town of Siedlce were part of the Generalgouvernement occupied by Germany . In the city center, a large ghetto guarded by the SS was installed in which around 15,000 Jews lived. In 1941, West German Roma, who had been deported to the Generalgouvernement in the course of the May deportation in 1940, were detained in a separate building complex. Both groups were subjected to forced labor in and around the city. A second deportation of Roma - from the Siedlce district - to the large ghetto took place in June 1942. On August 19, 1942, the Jews from Siedlce were transported to the Treblinka extermination camp . Roma were also shot in the process. The surviving Roma were transferred to the small ghetto just outside the city . In September 1942, as contemporary German sources report, “atrocities” by a German “Sonderkommando” occurred again in the district town. During the Zamość action , ie the attempt to Germanize or “ reshuffle ” in the context of the General Plan East , Siedlce, as a “rent village”, became an accommodation station for 350 forcibly evacuated families from the Lublin district who had to make room for ethnic Germans. At the end of July 1944, the Red Army took Siedlce. The population at that time was still 27,500, the city was half destroyed.

In 1949 the city became part of the Warsaw Voivodeship . During an administrative reform in 1975 it became the seat of the Siedlce Voivodeship of the same name . During the renewed administrative reform in 1999, the city lost its status and became part of the Masovian Voivodeship . In the same year on June 10th, Pope John Paul II visited the city.

Population development

year population
1914 30,000
1939 41,294
1944 27,584
2000 76,667
2004 76,943

Rural community

The rural community of Siedlce includes 37 localities, 35 of which have a Schulzenamt . The city of Siedlce is the seat of this Gmina, but does not belong to it.

Museums

That: there are in Siedlce three museums Regional Museum , the Museum " John Paul II. " And the Diocesan Museum . There are also two galleries, the Academic Gallery and the “New Art” school gallery .

Established businesses

Siedlce

The largest employer in the region is Mostostal Siedlce , which is mainly active in the field of lightweight construction in Siedlce.

  • FENES SA, cutting tools
  • ZPP Auto Sp. Z oo, supplier to the automotive industry
  • PSI cooperative, springs
  • Stadler Polska Sp. Z oo, a company of the Stadler Rail Group, rail vehicles

Furthermore, Chopin Vodka is produced in Siedlce .

sons and daughters of the town

Others

The Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities is located in the city . In 1998 an SOS Children's Village was completed here.

Politics and administration

City President

At the head of the city administration is the city ​​president . From 2006 to 2018, this was Wojciech Kudelski ( PiS ), who did not run again in the regular election in October 2018. The result was as follows:

  • Karol Tchórzewski ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 42.0% of the vote
  • Andrzej Sitnik (electoral committee of the “non-party residents' association Siedlce”) 32.9% of the votes
  • Magdalena Daniel (electoral committee "better settlement") 20.9% of the votes
  • Marek Ciuhak ( Kukiz'15 ) 4.2% of the vote

In the runoff election that became necessary, the runner-up in the first round, Sitnik, prevailed with 56.0% of the votes against the PiS candidate Tchórzewski and became the new mayor.

City council

The city council has 23 members who are directly elected. The election in October 2018 led to the following result:

  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 46.2% of the vote, 12 seats
  • Election committee "better Siedlce" 25.1% of the vote, 5 seats
  • Election committee of the "independent residents' association Siedlce" 23.1% of the votes, 6 seats
  • Kukiz'15 5.5% of the vote, no seat

Town twinning

Web links

Commons : Siedlce  - 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. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. A case study on the Lublin district 1939–1944 (German Historical Institute Warsaw, Sources and Studies, Volume 10), Wiesbaden 2004, p. 302.
  3. ↑ Unless Musial is indicated, the following applies to this section: Michael Zimmermann, Rassenutopie und Genozid. The National Socialist "Solution to the Gypsy Question", Hamburg 1996, p. 178 f.
  4. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. A case study on the Lublin District 1939–1944. (German Historical Institute Warsaw, Sources and Studies, Volume 10), Wiesbaden 2004, p. 335 f.
  5. ^ Bruno Wasser: Himmler's spatial planning in the east: The general plan east in Poland 1940-1944. Basel 1994, p. 272.
  6. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 17, 2020.
  7. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 17, 2020.
  8. ↑ news.gorodkirov.ru ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2010 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. Website of the city of Kirov, last visited on March 4, 2010 (Russian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.gorodkirov.ru