Szczekociny

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Szczekociny
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Szczekociny (Poland)
Szczekociny
Szczekociny
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Zawiercie
Area : 17.98  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 38 ′  N , 19 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 19 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 3612
(June 30, 2019)
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure: 18 school offices
Surface: 136.09 km²
Residents: 7692
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 57 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2416083
Administration (as of 2012)
Mayor : Krzysztof Dobrzyniewicz
Address: ul. Senatorska 2
42-445 Szczekociny
Website : www.szczekociny.pl



Szczekociny ( listen ? / I ) is a town in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia in the powiat Zawierciański on the Pilica with about 3900 inhabitants. Audio file / audio sample

history

Palace in Szczekociny

The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1307. The town received the town charter in the first half of the 15th century. On June 6, 1794, a battle of the same name occurred nearby during the Kościuszko Uprising . Like many small Polish towns, the town lost its town charter in 1870, but was regained in 1923. With the administrative reform of 1999, the place became part of the Silesian Voivodeship, although Szczekociny had never belonged to Silesia before and does not share its history. On March 3, 2012, a serious railway accident occurred here , in which 16 people were killed and 59 injured.

Jews

In 1937, 3,018 Jews lived in Szczekociny and thus made up more than half of the local population. 1500 were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. Only 10 percent of the Jewish population survived the Holocaust . Leon Zelman (1928–2007) survived and reports in his biography "A life after survival" (Verlag Kremayr & Scheria Wien, 1995) a. a. also about his childhood in the Szczekociny Stetl. An exchange program has started between the current citizens of Szczekociny and Jews from Israel and other countries, which mainly involves young people.

traffic

The town used to have the Szczekociny and Starzyny stops on the Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line .

local community

The urban and rural community of Szczekociny consists of the town of Szczekociny and 18  school boards with around 8,300 inhabitants and an area of ​​136.09 km².

  • Bonowice
  • Bógdał
  • Brzostek
  • Chałupki
  • Drużykowa
  • Goleniowy
  • Grabiec
  • Gustawów
  • Małachów
  • Ołudza
  • Przyłęk
  • Rędziny
  • Rokitno
  • Siedliska
  • Starzyny
  • Szyszki
  • Tęgobórz
  • Wólka Ołudzka
  • Wólka Starzyńska

Other localities in the municipality are: Gajówka, Łąkietka, Podkaszczor and Podlipie.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  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://mapa.szukacz.pl/html/00/720.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mapa.szukacz.pl  
  3. ^ Website of the city
  4. ↑ [1] (ZDERZENIE POCIĄGÓW W SZCZEKOCINACH)
  5. ↑ (English) ( Memento from September 26, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / holocaust-info.dk
  7. ↑ http://danielscounter.blogspot.com/2007/08/szczekociny-small-polish-town-facing.html ( Memento from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )