Skierbieszów

Skierbieszów
	Skierbieszów
	Skierbieszów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lublin
Powiat :	Zamojski
Gmina :	Skierbieszów
Geographic location :	50 ° 51 ' N , 23 ° 22' E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '0 " N , 23 ° 22' 0" E
Height :	208 m npm
Residents :	1300
Postal code :	22-420
Telephone code :	(+48) 84
License plate :	LZA
Economy and Transport
Street :	Zamość - Chełm
Next international airport :	Rzeszów-Jasionka
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Skierbieszów ([ skʲɛrˈbʲɛʃuf ], 1939–1944 Heidenstein ) is a place in Poland about 70 km southeast of Lublin . It is located in the powiat Zamojski in the Lublin Voivodeship and is the seat of the rural community of the same name . The village lies on the Wolica , a tributary of the Wieprz, and has about 1,300 inhabitants.

history

Catholic Church in Skierbieszów

Around the year 1000 the place probably belonged to the so-called Czerweni castles that Duke Bolesław the Brave conquered. In written sources, Skierbieszów is mentioned for the first time around 1428 on the occasion of a royal award to the Bishop of Chełm, who had a church built in the same year and founded a parish in 1436 . In 1453 , King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk granted the town city rights, which were confirmed in 1494 by King Jan Olbracht under German law.

For many centuries in the shadow of politics, the region became the area of many and protracted battles between the German Empire and Russia during the First World War . They reached the city of Krasnystaw and the village Skierbieszów on 16th July 1915 , where the long trench warfare passed into a march to the east.

After the First World War and the subsequent Soviet-Polish war against the then newly founded Soviet Union , the territory of a new, independent Poland was established in 1920 . During the Second World War , the region, which was temporarily also called "Russian Poland", belonged to the German General Government (1939–1944), which was established in occupied Poland. The residents of the place were driven out by the German occupation in the course of the Zamość campaign . Many of the Jewish residents were murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp ; ethnic German resettlers, including from Bessarabia , were resettled there. The family of the future German Federal President Horst Köhler also belonged to these . The place had about 925 inhabitants. After the invasion of the Red Army in August 1944 ( Lviv-Sandomierz operation ), the place became Polish again. From 1975 to 1988 he belonged to the Zamość Voivodeship .

Sons and daughters of the place

Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), Polish President (grew up in Skierbieszów)
Ludwik Wiśniewski (* 1936), Polish Dominican priest
Horst Köhler (* 1943), German politician, Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (2004–2010)
Zbigniew Derdziuk (* 1962), Polish politician