Suwałki
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Podlaskie | ||
| Powiat : | District-free city | ||
| Area : | 65.24 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 5 ' N , 22 ° 56' E | ||
| Height : | 180 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 69,858 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 16-400 to 16-433 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 87 | ||
| License plate : | BS | ||
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| Next international airport : | Vilnius | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Surface: | 65.24 km² | ||
| Residents: | 69,858 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 1071 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 2063011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2016) | |||
| City President : | Czesław Renkiewicz | ||
| Address: | ul. Mickiewicza 1 16-400 Suwałki |
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| Website : | www.um.suwalki.pl | ||
Suwałki [ suˈvawki ] ( German Suwalken , 1941-1944 Sudauen , Lithuanian Suvalkai ), is a city with about 69,000 inhabitants in northeast Poland , in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , about 120 kilometers north of Białystok and not far from the border with Lithuania . For a long time Suwałki was away from the main streams of traffic; Since the opening of various road crossings and the only rail border crossing from Poland to Lithuania on the main route Berlin - Warsaw - Kaunas - Vilnius / Riga , the economic importance of the city has grown.
In the 2002 census, 5097 people in the Suwałki region gave “Lithuanian” as their nationality .
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history
The northern part of the country of the Sudauer came to the Prussian monastic state (later East Prussia ); the southern part was conquered by Poles and Lithuanians, and later border agreements between the order state, Lithuania and Poland as Podolia became part of Lithuania.
Until 1795 the city of Suwałki belonged to the Grand Duchy of Poland-Lithuania . During the Third Partition of Poland , Suwałki became part of Prussia , was united with the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and, together with Congress Poland, came to the Russian Empire in 1815 .
From 1919 Suwałki belonged to the Second Polish Republic . With the Treaty of Suwałki 1920 an end to the border conflicts between Poland and Lithuania was planned, but the treaty was broken before it came into force.
Suwałki was occupied by the Wehrmacht during the attack on Poland in autumn 1939 and from then on, as the capital of the Sudauen district, it belonged to East Prussia, contrary to international law . Suwałki was renamed Suwalken in December 1939 and was called Sudauen from 1941 . In 1944 the city was captured by the Red Army . Since then, the city has been called Suwałki again and belongs to Poland again.
In its last administrative reform, Poland created a district of Suwałki . The city of Suwałki itself has the status of an urban district (actually miasto na prawach powiatu, "city with rights of a powiat ").
The border between Poland and Lithuania runs near the municipality. This border section, which is around 100 km long, is the only border between the NATO state Poland and one of the three Baltic states that are also NATO members. Since the conquest and annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, this so-called Suwalki gap has been one of the most militarily sensitive points in Europe.
Rural community of Suwałki
Suwałki is the seat of a rural community of the same name, but is not part of it. The rural community covers the city almost completely and has an area of 264.8 km² on which 7706 people live (June 30, 2019).
politics
City President
At the head of the city administration is the city president . Since 2010 this has been Czesław Renkiewicz, who in 2010 stood for the election committee of the recently deceased mayor Józef Gajewski "Suwałki - the vision of Gajewski" and since 2014 has been running for his own election committee. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following results:
- Czesław Renkiewicz (“Support Suwałki - Czesław Renkiewicz” electoral committee) 63.2% of the vote
- Grzegorz Mackiewicz ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 21.1% of the vote
- Sławomir Sieczkowski (Suwałki Residents' Election Committee) 8.6% of the vote
- Grzegorz Gorlo (“Suwałki Association for Law” electoral committee) 5.3% of the vote
- Remaining 1.9% of the vote
Renkiewicz was thus re-elected for a further term in the first ballot.
City council
The city council has 23 members who are directly elected. The election in October 2018 led to the following result:
- Election Committee “Support Suwałki - Czesław Renkiewicz” 42.5% of the vote, 12 seats
- Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 28.2% of the vote, 7 seats
- Suwałki Residents' Electoral Committee 10.6% of the vote, 2 seats
- Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 10.2% of the vote, 2 seats
- Election committee “Suwałki Association for Law” 4.5% of the vote, no seat
- Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD) / Lewica Razem (Razem) 4.1% of the vote, no seat
Town twinning
- Grande-Synthe , France, since 1978
- Marijampolė , Lithuania, since 1995
- Alytus , Lithuania, since 1996
- Waren (Müritz) , Germany, since 1999
- Võru , Estonia, since 1999
sons and daughters of the town
- Stanislaw Julian Ostroróg (1836–1899), Polish-English photographer
- Samuel Rosenthal (1837–1902), Polish-French chess player
- Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910), poet
- Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski (1849–1915), painter
- Justinas Pranaitis (1861–1917), Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and Hebraist
- Vladimir Kenig (1883–1929), composer
- Pinchas Sapir (1906–1975), Israeli politician, finance, trade and industry minister
- Avraham Stern (1907–1942), alias Yair, Zionist activist and terrorist
- Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016), film and theater director
- Jolanta Szynwelska (* 1961), handball player
- Patryk Małecki (* 1988), footballer
- Joanna Mendak (* 1989), swimmer
- Paweł Baranowski (* 1990), football player
- Maria Andrejczyk (* 1996), track and field athlete
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 25, 2020.
- ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 25, 2020.
