Zduńska Wola
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Łódź | ||
| Powiat : | Zduńska | ||
| Area : | 24.58 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 36 ' N , 18 ° 55' E | ||
| Residents : | 41,863 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 98-220 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 43 | ||
| License plate : | EZD | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Łódź - Opole | ||
| Rail route : | Łódź – Kalisz | ||
| Next international airport : | Łódź | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Surface: | 24.58 km² | ||
| Residents: | 41,863 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 1703 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 1019011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2018) | |||
| City President : | Konrad Pokora | ||
| Address: | ul.Stefana Złotnickiego 12 98-220 Zduńska Wola |
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| Website : | www.zdunskawola.pl | ||
Zduńska Wola [ ˈzduɲska ˈvɔla ] ( German 1943–1945 Freihaus ) is a city in Poland in the Łódź Voivodeship .
geography
The city is located in the Łódź Voivodeship on the Pichna River, a tributary of the Warta . Łódź is about 50 kilometers northeast.
Zduńska Wola station is on the Łódź – Forst (Lausitz) railway line, and Zduńska Wola Karsznice and Zduńska Wola Południowa stations on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line .
history
The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1394. In the 17th century there was a parish in Zduńska Wola . The place received the right to hold twelve annual fairs on September 12, 1773 by Stanislaus II August . In 1793 the place fell to Prussia and in 1815 the city became part of Russia (Russian Poland). The first weavers came to the city in 1817 . In 1824 there were around 150 cloth makers among the 1,400 people. On October 25, 1825, the place received city rights . In 1903 the city was connected to the rail network and thus received a train connection to Kalisz and Łódź . During the First World War , Zduńska Wola was captured by German troops in 1914. After this war the city became part of the Łódź Voivodeship of the newly established Republic of Poland. In the course of the reconstruction, new buildings such as a primary school , a high school , a hospital and a volunteer fire department were built . The city flourished and was connected to Silesia in the south and Gdynia in the north with a newly built rail line . With 26,154 inhabitants, the city was the largest city in the west of the Łódź Voivodeship in 1930. In September 1939 it was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and renamed Freihaus on May 18, 1943 . The population fell to 12,354 during the occupation. The Red Army reached the city on January 21, 1945, and the Second World War ended for them .
| year | population |
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| 1824 | 1,400 |
| 1827 | 2,758 |
| 1909 | 22,504 |
| 1914 | 28,437 |
| 1918 | 12,000 |
| 1930 | 26,154 |
| 1944 | 12,354 |
| 1949 | 3,000 |
| 1960 | 3,200 |
| 2000 | 45,791 |
| 2007 | 44,316 |
local community
Borough
The city of Zduńska Wola forms an independent municipality ( gmina miejska ).
Rural community
The rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Zduńska Wola includes 31 districts with a school district office ( solectwo ) .
Town twinning
- Pietrasanta (Italy)
- Valmiera (Latvia)
- Zarasai (Lithuania)
Railway Museum
In addition to the historical museum, there is an open-air locomotive museum . There are steam and diesel locomotives on display, but also the beginnings of the electric locomotive .
sons and daughters of the town
- Max Factor (1877–1938), Polish-American cosmetics entrepreneur
- Emil Bohnke (1888–1928), German composer
- Lasar Aronowitsch Ljusternik (1899–1981), Russian mathematician
- Eugen Klause (1903–1999), church musician and composer
- Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Catholic priest, martyr , patron saint of journalists
- Edmund Friszke ( Frischke ) (1902–1958), pastor of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church, victim of National Socialism
- Justyna Majkowska (* 1977), Polish singer ( Ich Troje )
- Michael Podolak (born September 20, 1986, Michal Podolak, emigrated to Austria in 1989), former marksman of the Austrian. Kaders, European and military world champions
Web links
- Official website of the city (Polish, German, English)
- Railway Museum website (Polish, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, "LUDNOŚĆ - STAN I STRUKTURA W PRZEKROJU TERYTORIALNYM", as of June 30, 2007, p. 62 ( Memento of February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )