Sieradz

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Sieradz
Sieradz Coat of Arms
Sieradz (Poland)
Sieradz
Sieradz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Łódź
Powiat : Sieradz
Area : 51.20  km²
Geographic location : 51 ° 36 '  N , 18 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '0 "  N , 18 ° 44' 0"  E
Residents : 42,120
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 98-200 to 98-225
Telephone code : (+48) 43
License plate : IT I
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Łódź – Ostrów Wielkopolski
Next international airport : Łódź
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 51.20 km²
Residents: 42,120
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 823 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1014011
Administration (as of 2013)
City President : Jacek Walczak
Address: pl. Wojewódzki 1
98-200 Sieradz
Website : www.umsieradz.pl



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geography

Geographical location

Sieradz is located on the Warta , about 60 km southwest of Łódź and 140 km northeast of Wroclaw . The place is on the state roads 83 and 12 .

history

The first permanent settlements in the area of ​​today's Sieradz already existed in the 6th and 7th centuries. Markets were held here in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. In the 12th century a castle was built with a town in front of it. The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1136 .

The town was granted town charter between 1247 and 1255. An exact determination is not possible because the actual certificate has been lost. The city charter was presumably granted according to Magdeburg law . In the second half of the 13th century, Sieradz became the seat of its own duchy . The people are said to have turned their backs on Duke Lezko and his wife Grîfine after it became known that the ruling couple consumed amphibians and vipers as an alternative nutritional supplement around 1278. At the end of the 14th century, the wooden castle was replaced by a brick castle. In 1445 Casimir IV Jagellonicus was elected King of Poland here.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Sieradz was an important center of handicrafts , 162 craftsmen worked here, including cloth makers , tailors and furriers . The annual markets were also very interesting for trade . In the 17th century the development of the place was hampered by the war between Poland and the Swedes , fires and epidemics . At the end of the 18th century, around 1,500 people lived in the city and only around 80 craftsmen.

Sieradz was the seat of a voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania ( Sieradz Voivodeship (until 1793) )

During the second partition of Poland in 1793, the place fell under Prussian rule. In 1807 it became part of the newly created Grand Duchy of Warsaw and then in 1815 part of Congress Poland . In 1863/64 the place was a center of the January uprising .

It was connected to the rail network in 1903. In November 1918, after the First World War , Sieradz became part of the now independent Poland and the seat of a powiat . With the beginning of the Second World War , the place was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 1, 1939 and the city became the seat of the district of Schieratz . Extensive Germanization was carried out during the German occupation . In the vicinity of the city, the military training area Schieratz was created by the Wehrmacht . A labor camp existed from 1940 to 1942 . On January 23, 1945, the Red Army marched into the city.

In 1975, during an administrative reform, the place became the seat of a voivodeship again , but lost this status again in 1998.


politics

Town twinning

  • since October 15, 2000: Gaggenau (Germany)

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • the market
  • the All Saints parish church (14th century)
  • the Dominican monastery
  • the corner house on Zamkowej and Dominikańskiej streets (17th century)
  • Kolegiacka and Warszawska streets
  • Synagogue (early 19th century)

Economy and Infrastructure

Part of the city, between Wojska Polskiego and Zakładników streets , is part of the Łódź Special Economic Zone . The factory of the Polish vehicle manufacturer Feber , one of the largest employers in the city, is also located there.

media

  • Daily newspaper Dziennik Łódzki
  • Weekly newspaper Siedem dni ( seven days )
  • Weekly Echo
  • Radio Nasze radio 104.7 FM
  • City TV

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz

Web links

Commons : Sieradz  - 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. ↑ Gundolf Keil : The anatomei-term in the Paracelsus pathology. With a historical perspective on Samuel Hahnemann. In: Hartmut Boockmann, Bernd Moeller , Karl Stackmann (eds.): Life lessons and world designs in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Politics - Education - Natural History - Theology. Report on colloquia of the commission to research the culture of the late Middle Ages 1983 to 1987 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: philological-historical class. Volume III, No. 179). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-82463-7 , pp. 336-351, here: p. 341.