Suchowola
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Podlaskie | ||
| Powiat : | Sokólski | ||
| Gmina : | Suchowola | ||
| Area : | 25.95 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 35 ' N , 23 ° 6' E | ||
| Height : | 156 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 2212 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 16-150 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 85 | ||
| License plate : | BSK | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | E 67 Białystok - Suwałki | ||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
Suchowola is a city in the Podlaskie Voivodeship with about 2200 inhabitants in north-eastern Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with around 7,000 inhabitants.
The city lies on the eastern edge of the Biebrza swamps and belongs to the powiat Sokólski . Suchowola is considered to be one of the geographical centers of Europe .
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1576. In the 17th century a strong Jewish community emerged . In 1698 Augustus the Strong gave Suchowola the right to hold a Jewish fair and in 1770 was granted city rights by Stanislaus August II .
In 1775 the Polish cartographer and astronomer Szymon Antoni Sobiekrajski identified Suchowola as the geographical center of Europe . A boulder was set up in the center of the city to mark this geographical center of Europe.
Between 1795 and 1807 the city belonged to Prussia , then until 1918 to Russia and then to Poland.
The development of the city was influenced by the Tatars , who worked in leather processing, and by Jews, who made up a third of the population and engaged in trade and handicrafts.
In 1777 Suchowola received city rights.
In 1939 the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht .
In July 1941, Polish citizens in Suchowola also took part in pogroms against their Jewish fellow citizens. In the autumn of 1941 the German occupiers established a ghetto in Suchowola for the local Jews and around 2,600 Jews from the area. A total of around 5,000 victims went through the ghetto. The imposing wooden synagogue was burned down, the Jewish cemetery demolished.
On November 2, 1942, the ghetto was dissolved and its residents were deported to the transit camp in Kielbasin near Grodno . They died in the extermination camp in Treblinka .
In 1950 Suchowola lost its town charter, as the population was drastically reduced as a result of the war, occupation and genocide . Since 1997 Sochowola is a city again.
Church in Suchowola
Triumphal arch for the Pope's visit
Boulder to mark the geographical center of Europe (based on calculations from 1775)
Monument to the martyr Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947–1984)
Gmina
The urban-and-rural municipality (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Suchowola covers an area of almost 256 km² and has about 7000 inhabitants (2016).
