Wąchock
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Holy Cross | ||
| Powiat : | Starachowicki | ||
| Gmina : | Wąchock | ||
| Area : | 16.01 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 5 ' N , 21 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 2805 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 27-215 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 41 | ||
| License plate : | TST | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Skarżysko-Kamienna - Starachowice | ||
| Rail route : | Skarżysko-Kamienna – Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski | ||
| Next international airport : | Łódź-Lublinek | ||
Wąchock is a town in the Starachowicki powiat of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with about 6900 inhabitants and is located five kilometers west of the district town of Starachowice . The small town on the Kamienna has 2805 inhabitants (2016).
In addition to its tourist attractiveness, Wąchock is known throughout Poland for the jokes about its inhabitants, comparable to the East Frisian jokes in Germany.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1179 . Around the same time, a Cistercian monastery ( Wąchock Monastery ) was founded. In 1454 the settlement near the monastery received city rights . In the following period the monastery was active as a promoter of the local mining industry. Iron has been smelted since the 15th century. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, first became Austrian and from 1807 to 1815 part of the Duchy of Warsaw , Wąchock became Russian. The monastery was abolished in 1818 and the town charter was lost in 1870. In the January uprising of 1863, a large group of rebels gathered around Marian Langiewicz in Wąchock. In 1885 it was connected to the railway network. During the time of the German occupation in World War II , a large numerical partisan movement was active in the surrounding forests.
From 1975 to 1998 Wąchock was part of the Kielce Voivodeship . In 1994 it received city rights again.
Attractions
- Complex of the former Cistercian abbey: late Romanesque St. Florian's Church from the 13th century, interior from the late Baroque period, buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries, including the convent , the abbot's palace and two old monastery gates (second in the 19th Century rebuilt as a pharmacy)
- Monument to the “mayor of Wąchock”, one of the central figures from the jokes about the city
- Ruins of the old metal factory from the 1st half of the 19th century: the owners' palace around 1850, three workshops, the remains of a lock on the Kamienna River. At that time the factory was part of the industrial complex founded by Stanisław Staszic . From approx. 1890 to 1945 the factory belonged to a German von Schoenberg family.
local community
The town itself and five villages with school authorities belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Wąchock.
Web links
- City website (Polish)