Węgrów
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Mazovia | ||
| Powiat : | Węgrowski | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 24 ' N , 22 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 12,628 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 07-100 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 25 | ||
| License plate : | WWE | ||
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| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Surface: | 35.51 km² | ||
| Residents: | 12,628 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 356 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 1433011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2018) | |||
| Mayor : | Paweł Marchela | ||
| Address: | ul.Rynek Mariacki 16 |
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| Website : | www.wegrow.com.pl | ||
Węgrów is the county seat of the Powiat Węgrowski in the Polish Masovian Voivodeship . 12,600 people live in an area of 35.5 km². The city lies on the Liwiec , a 142 km long tributary of the Bug .
history
The place was mentioned for the first time in 1414 and in 1441 received city charter under Magdeburg law (Chełmer law?).
From 1558 it became a center of Calvinist Protestants . In 1565 a community of the Socinians ( Polish Brothers ) was founded, but they had to leave the place again in 1593. Jewish residents in Węgrów were also mentioned for the first time in the 16th century .
Since 1650 there was an Evangelical Lutheran congregation , which formed its center here in Mazovia as an alternative to neighboring Warsaw.
From 1664 Węgrów belonged to the magnate Jan Kazimierz Krasiński, who was a staunch Catholic. In 1675 he founded a monastery of the Reformed Franciscans. In 1686 the Protestant church was set on fire and reconstruction was prohibited. Further repression followed.
After the Third Partition of Poland , Węgrów came first to Austria in 1795, to the Duchy of Warsaw from 1809 and to Congress Poland under Russian sovereignty from 1815 .
In the 19th century, 62% of the population were Jewish.
Personalities
- Petrus Gonesius (1525–1573), theologian and leading representative of the Socinians (Polish Brothers)
- Anna Radziwiłłowna (-1600), owner since 1558, supported Calvinists and Polish brothers
- Jan Kazimierz Krasiński (1609–1669), owner of Węgrów since 1664, founded the Franciscan monastery
- Martin Oloff (1652–1715), Lutheran preacher in Węgrów 1677–90
- Johann Friedrich Bachstrom (1686–1742), Lutheran preacher in Węgrów 1720–24
- Stanislaw Wikentjewitsch Kossior (1889–1939), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, jointly responsible for the Holodomor
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Lutheran preachers in Węgrów from 1650-1750 in Christian Siegemund Thomas: Old and New from, State of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Kingdom of Poland. 1750. pp. 129f.