Wolbórz
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Łódź | |
Powiat : | Piotrkowski | |
Gmina : | Wolbórz | |
Area : | 15.18 km² | |
Geographic location : | 51 ° 30 ′ N , 19 ° 50 ′ E | |
Residents : | 2334 (June 30, 2019) | |
Postal code : | 97-320 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 46 | |
License plate : | EPI | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Street : | S8 Piotrków Trybunalski - Warsaw | |
Rail route : | - | |
Next international airport : | Łódź | |
Administration (as of 2014) | ||
Mayor : | Andrzej Jaros | |
Website : | www.wolborz.eu |
Wolbórz has been a town in the powiat Piotrkowski of the Łódź Voivodeship in Poland since 2011 . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 7783 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
geography
Wolbórz is located in the eastern part of the voivodeship. The district town of Piotrków Trybunalski (Petrikau) is about 20 kilometers to the southwest. Neighboring towns are the villages Świątniki, Bogusławice and Krzykowice in the north, Studzianki-Kolonia and Dębina in the east, Modrzewek, Żarnowica Mała and Polichno in the south and Psary-Lechawa, Psary Witowskie and Młynary in the east. Without exception, they belong to the urban-and-rural parish .
The rivers include the 48.8 kilometers long Wolbórka and its tributary Moszczanka. The area around the city is characterized by agriculture . Of the area of the municipality, 62 percent will be used for agriculture and 28 percent for forestry.
history
January 1, 2011 Wolbórz received the 1870 after the January Uprising of 1863 but knew, city rights again and the church got its current status.
The current municipal area belonged, interrupted by the German occupation during the Second World War , from 1919 to 1975 to the Łódź Voivodeship with different layouts. - The German minority was expelled after the World War. - Wolbórz was the seat of Gmina Bogusławice , which was divided into Gromadas in 1954 .
On January 1, 1973 the rural community Wolbórz was founded. From 1975 to 1998 she came to the Piotrków Voivodeship . The powiat was dissolved during this time. Since 1999 the municipality has belonged to the Łódź Voivodeship and the Powiat Piotrkowski current layout, which were newly formed.
local community
The town itself and 22 villages with a Schulzenamt, to which 16 other localities are assigned, belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Wolbórz with an area of 151.66 km².
Attractions
Listed cultural monuments in the voivodeship directory are:
- Parish Church of St. Nicholas (15th and 18th centuries)
- Castle of the Bishops of Kuyavia ; Baroque palace complex, built 1768–1773 by Francesco Placidi († 1782) - palace, two outbuildings, two pavilions, park and three avenues.
traffic
Wolbórz is located on the S8 expressway , which leads from the district town of Piotrków Trybunalski via Warsaw to Białystok .
The nearest train station is Tomaszów Mazowiecki , with long-distance connections on the Łódź – Dębica and Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Radom lines .
The nearest international airport is Łódź .
Personalities
- Born in Wolbórz
- Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503–1572), “Father of Polish Democracy”, scholar, humanist and theologian
- Antoni Dobrowolski (1904–2012), Polish resistance fighter and oldest surviving Auschwitz prisoner.
- Honorary citizen of Wolbórz
- Władysław Ziółek (* 1935), retired Archbishop of Łódź; born in Komorniki near Wolbórz
- Antoni Karlak (* 1951), Wójt by Gmina Jabłonka
- Maria Wichowa , university professor with contributions to anniversaries of the city of Wolborz
- Robert Grudzień (* 1964), musician, composer and festival director.
Web links
- City and municipality website (Polish)
Footnotes
- ^ Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS): Population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019 . (PDF 0.99 MB; accessed December 24, 2019)
- ↑ a b regioset.pl: data on the municipality (Polish, accessed May 30, 2020)
- ↑ wolborz.eu: Miejscowości w gminie . (Polish, accessed April 6, 2020)
- ↑ NID : Informational directory of the list of monuments of the Łódź Voivodeship (as of March 31, 2016) (PDF, 500kB; Polish, accessed on March 23, 2020) p. 68.
- ↑ wolborz.eu: Honorowi i zasłużeni mieszkańcy. Honorowe Obywatelstwo Wolborza . (Polish, accessed April 6, 2020)