Warta (city)
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Łódź | ||
| Powiat : | Sieradzki | ||
| Gmina : | Warta | ||
| Area : | 10.84 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 43 ' N , 18 ° 38' E | ||
| Residents : | 3246 (June 30, 2019) | ||
| Postal code : | 98-290 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 43 | ||
| License plate : | IT I | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Sieradz - Turek | ||
| Błaszki - Łódź | |||
| Next international airport : | Łódź | ||
Warta ( German 1943–1945 Liebwart ) is a city in the Łódź Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 12,698 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
Geographical location
The place is on the left bank of the Warta ( Polish: Warta), from which the place takes its name.
history
The year of foundation of the place is not exactly known, the Magdeburg city charter was granted to Warta in 1255 and was also given the German name Liebenwerde. In 1355 the city was burned down by the Teutonic Order . In 1465 another fire raged in the city, in which a Cistercian monastery was built two years later . From 1482 many residents of the city fell victim to the plague . In 1507 another fire raged in the city. During the Swedish-Polish War from 1655 to 1660, the city fell victim to destruction, epidemics and fires. During the second partition of Poland , the place became part of Prussia in 1793 . After the Peace of Tilsit in 1807, the city belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw , went to the Russian-controlled Congress Poland in 1815 and became part of Russia together with it in 1831 . In 1870 the city became the seat of a district. In 1908 a mental hospital was opened. After the First World War , the place became part of the newly formed Poland . In September 1939 the place was occupied by the Wehrmacht . The approximately 2,000 Jews and 499 patients in the mental hospital were murdered by SS-Sonderkommando Lange in 1939 . From 1943 to 1945 the place was renamed Liebwart. The name was a reference to the German name of the place during the German east settlement Liebenwerde in the Middle Ages. On January 20, 1945 the Red Army reached the place. During an administrative reform, the city became part of the Sieradz Voivodeship in 1975 , another reform in 1999 dissolved this and Warta became part of the Łódź Voivodeship .
In the course of the integration of the city into Prussia in 1792, a survey found that there were 132 houses with 951 people.
| year | 1792 | 1826 | 1858 | 1881 | 1904 | 2005 |
| population | 951 | 2,625 | 3,212 | 4,490 | 5,345 | 3,365 |
coat of arms
The oldest known depiction of a coat of arms comes from the end of the 16th century. On June 29, 1978 the place was given the old coat of arms again. It shows an open red gate on a blue background. Behind the red wall you can see three towers of the same size, also red. A silver eagle can be seen under the gate. The eagle was originally uncrowned, but has been wearing a gold crown since 1990.
local community
The town itself and 48 villages with school boards belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Warta.
partnership
The municipality of Warta maintains a town partnership with the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Lengerich .
Attractions
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- Cistercian monastery and church from the 15th century.
- The town hall from 1842 was destroyed in 1939, but then rebuilt according to the old model.
- The Church of St. Nicholas was built in the mid-14th century and rebuilt in the 17th century.
Web links
- Official website of the city (pl.)
- Website about the city (pl.)