Zegrze

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The Zegrze river crossing has been of military importance since the 15th century. There is still a garrison here today

Zegrze is a village in Poland with just under 1000 inhabitants. It is located around 28 km north of Warsaw in the Masovian Voivodeship . The village belongs to the Powiat Legionowski and the urban and rural municipality Serock . The village is characterized by military facilities stationed there and a reservoir that has existed since the 1960s, which makes Zegrze a popular tourist destination, especially in the summer months.

location

The reservoir in the Warsaw catchment area has become home to many sailing clubs

Zegrze used to belong to the former province of Warsaw. The village is divided into two parts by the Zegrze Reservoir : Zegrze North (Zegrze Północne) and Zegrze South (Zegrze Południowe). The lake was created after the Narew was dammed in 1963 at the Dębe Dam, around eight kilometers away . Between the lake and Żerań port in Warsaw, the 19 km long Żerań Canal connects the Narew and Vistula rivers . The village is cut from north to south by the four-lane highway No. 61.

history

In the 14th century there was a settlement here that levied customs on a Narew crossing. This customs post was lightly fortified. Later Zegrze received city rights. A church was built in the 18th century. In 1847 the magnate Krasiński family , who owned the village, built a palace above the north bank , which later fell to Maciej Radziwiłł through marriage .

From the beginning of the 19th century, Zegrze developed into a strategically important town because of a wooden bridge over the Narew that was built here. In May 1831, as part of the November Uprising, Polish troops laid a lightly fortified bridgehead at Zegrze. In 1873 the tsarist government decided to build a fortress in the Weichselland to defend the bridge and to cover the older fortress in Modlin from the east. From 1892 to 1895, extraordinary fortifications were built in Zegrze, which are well preserved to this day. The Zegrze Fortress with its two strong works ( Big Festivals and Small Festivals ) was part of the Greater Warsaw Fortress and, according to the state of the art at the time, was already built entirely of concrete. In addition, to the south and north of the Narew barracks - mainly made of brick - were built. The Radziwiłł Palace now became the summer residence of the Russian fortress commander of the greater area. The governor general of Warsaw, Konstantin Maximowitsch, also moved his residence to the palace in 1905. In the summer of 1915, the German 85th Landwehr Division marched into Zegrze during the First World War .

In 1996 the construction of the new garrison church began. In 2003 a modern bridge was built over the reservoir. It replaced a bridge built after the Second World War . The bridge piers of a bridge built by the Russian authorities in 1894 or 1897 can still be seen today - now surrounded by the reservoir.

Another palace in the area is the Radziwiłł Palace in Jadwisin, built from 1896 . The Polish artist Jerzy Szaniawski was born in nearby Zegrzynek.

Zegrze today

The reservoir is now a popular excursion destination. Sailing and windsurfing schools as well as holiday homes, campsites and hotels have set up around the lake. Around 1500 boats are on the lake in summer. The Polish Olympic champion Mateusz Kusznierewicz learned to sail here. In the north and south of the village there are buildings and systems of the Polish telecommunications force . This is where the “Training Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology” ( Centrum Szkolenia Łączności i Informatyki ) is located. The former Radziwiłł Palace is now also used for hotel and restaurant purposes.

  • The former Radziłł Palace

  • Great ascent of the fortress

  • The smaller work of the fortress

  • A former ammunition depot, now used by a sailing club

  • Barracks from the end of the 19th century in the southern part of Zegrze

  • Parts of the Zegrze fortress for sale

  • The piers of the bridge from 1897, which are now washed over

  • Barracks of the telecommunications training school in Zegrze

  • The modern garrison church

  • New bridge built in 2003

Web links

Commons : Zegrze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Friedrich von Smitt, History of the Polish Uprising and the War in the Years 1830 and 1831 , Part 2, Ducker b & Humblot, Berlin 1848, p. 204 (accessed October 31, 2012)
  2. ↑ Konstantin Maximowitsch (also Maksymowicz , Russian: Константин Клавдиевич Максимович ; 1849-1916) was a Russian officer and commander in chief in the Warsaw area in the summer of 1905
  3. ↑ according to Adrian Polly, On Russia's Revolution and Rebirth. Personal experiences and history , Teutonia-Verlag, 1906, p. 52.
  4. ↑ Jerzy Szaniawski (1886–1970) was a Polish dramaturge, columnist and author

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 43 ″  N , 21 ° 2 ′ 4 ″  E