Skierniewice

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Skierniewice
Skierniewice coat of arms
Skierniewice (Poland)
Skierniewice
Skierniewice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Łódź
Powiat : District-free city
Area : 34.88  km²
Geographic location : 51 ° 58 ′  N , 20 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 112-138 m npm
Residents : 48,106
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 96-100 to 96-106
Telephone code : (+48) 46
License plate : IT
Economy and Transport
Street : Rawa Mazowiecka - Łowicz
Rail route : Warsaw – Czestochowa
Skierniewice – Łowicz
Next international airport : Łódź
Warsaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 34.88 km²
Residents: 48,106
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 1379 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1063011
Administration (as of 2014)
City President : Krzysztof Jażdżyk
Address: Rynek 1
96-100 Skierniewice
Website : www.skierniewice.net.pl



Skierniewice, Willa Kozlowskich

Skierniewice [ skʲɛrɲɛˈvʲit͡sɛ ] is a city in the Łódź Voivodeship in Poland .

location

Railway station in Skierniewice

The city, located in the Vistula basin, today has around 48,700 inhabitants on an area of ​​32.6 km² ( 2000 : 48,364, 2005: 49,142). From 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the voivodeship of the same name , since then it has been part of the Łódź Voivodeship. It is an important railway junction and connects the cities of Warsaw with Łódź , Koluszki , Kutno and Łowicz .

history

The city was first mentioned in 1359 in a document in which the Archbishop of Gniezno , Jaroslaw I. Bogoria, the Duke of Mazovia , Siemowit III. enfeoffed with the area around Skierniewice. The city rights were Skierniewice 1463 by King Casimir IV. Jagiello awarded. From the end of the 16th century, Skierniewice was the residence of the Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland , who received the Polish kings in his residence in this capacity; the last archbishop residing in the city was Ignacy Krasicki († 1801). First Prussian, then Russian, the city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the Congress of Vienna in 1815 .

Emperor Franz Joseph I , Emperor Wilhelm I . and Tsar Alexander III . met from September 15 to 17, 1884 at a hunting lodge in Skierniewice in Russian Poland, accompanied by their foreign ministers, and renewed the " Three Emperor's League " of 1881.

During the First World War , the city was on the front line where German and Russian soldiers fought bitterly. During the Second World War , the city was occupied and the entire Jewish population deported and killed in the extermination camps.

From 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the voivodeship of the same name , since then it has been part of the Łódź Voivodeship. The city is a center of agricultural science.

Nearby are the Bolimów Landscape Park and Żelazowa Wola , the birthplace of Frédéric Chopin .

Town twinning

Skierniewice has been the twin town of Gera since 1965 and also of Châtelaillon-Plage in France.

traffic

The railway lines Warsaw – Katowice , Skierniewice – Łowicz and Skierniewice – Łuków meet at Skierniewice station , with the latter only operating freight traffic.

Skierniewice rural municipality

Skierniewice is the seat of a rural community of the same name, but is not itself part of it. The rural community with 28 school offices has an area of ​​131.7 km² on which 7585 people live (June 30, 2019).

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Footnotes

  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. http://wwwg.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/kataloge/03/html/294.htm Meeting of three emperors on hunting in Skierniewice