Solec-Zdrój

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Solec-Zdrój
Coat of arms of Gmina Solec-Zdrój
Solec-Zdrój (Poland)
Solec-Zdrój
Solec-Zdrój
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Holy Cross
Powiat : Buski
Gmina : Solec-Zdrój
Geographic location : 50 ° 22 '  N , 20 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '59 "  N , 20 ° 53' 13"  E
Residents : 847 ()
Postal code : 28-131
Telephone code : (+48) 41
License plate : TBU
Economy and Transport
Street : State road 79
Next international airport : Krakow-Balice
administration
Website : www.solec-zdroj.eu



Solec-Zdrój is a spa town in the Powiat Buski of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with 5054 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

The place is about 61 km southeast of Kielce and 17 km southeast of the district town of Busko-Zdrój in the basin of Sandomierz , a few kilometers from the confluence of the Nida into the Vistula on the Struga stream.

history

Kurhaus
Church Sw. Mikulaj

The place was mentioned as early as the 14th century. In the middle of the 15th century Jan Feliks Tarnowski , the governor of Lublin , owned the brine spring . At the beginning of the 16th century, the place fell victim to the Tartar invasion. As a result he came to Martin Zborowski, the castellan of Krakow . In the 18th century Solec recovered from the devastation of the past. In 1795 the place fell to Austria with the third division of Poland . In 1809 Solec came to the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 to the Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland ), which was under Russian rule , whose fate it shared until 1918. After the end of the First World War , the place came back to the newly formed Poland, the Second Polish Republic , 1939 under German occupation, after 1944 to the People's Republic of Poland , which was converted into the Third Polish Republic in 1989 . In 1837 Karol Godeffroy founded the spa. In 1974 the place Solec was named Solec-Zdrój.

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Solec-Zdrój includes the health resort itself and 18 villages with school boards.

spa

Solec-Zdrój has a spa park with old trees. The Szaniec Landscape Protection Park ( Szaniecki Park Krajobrazowy ) also touches the municipality. The place has two healing water springs with chlorine-iodine-sodium-bromine-sulphide brine, these are considered the world's strongest healing water source of this kind. The neoclassical spa house was built in 1926/1927 by Romuald Daniewski . The Świt Sanatorium, the former theater and ballroom in an eclectic style with neo-Gothic elements, dates from 1900.

tourism

The St. Nicholas Church from 1937 to 1939 and the spa facilities are well worth seeing. - Solec-Zdrój is the end of the hiking trail ( szlak turystyczny ) from Busko-Zdrój (white-red-white marking) and is on the Grochowiska-Wiślica hiking trail (white-green-white marking).

Spas in Poland

Web links

Commons : Solec-Zdrój  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the municipality, Solec Zdrój , accessed on August 1, 2011