Jasło

Coordinates: 49°44′52″N 21°28′17″E / 49.74778°N 21.47139°E / 49.74778; 21.47139
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Jasło
Starosty in Jaslo, Gazebo in City Park, Palace, Parish Church, Church of Sts. Stanislaus, Promenade and historic buildings, Jewish Cemetery, Tadeusz Kosciuszko Monument
Starosty in Jaslo, Gazebo in City Park, Palace, Parish Church, Church of Sts. Stanislaus, Promenade and historic buildings, Jewish Cemetery, Tadeusz Kosciuszko Monument
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
38-200 to 38-211
Area code+48 13
Car platesRJS
Websitehttp://www.jaslo.pl/

Jasło

above sea level, although there are some hills located within the confines of the city. The Patron Saint of the city is Saint Anthony of Padua
.

History

Gothic Church of the Assumption

In the early days of Polish statehood, Jasło was part of the

Władysław I the Elbow-high. The parish had a school, and in the mid-14th century, Carmelite brothers came to the town. According to Dlugosz in Liber beneficiorum Dioecesis cracoviensis, the church that stands today was built by brothers Stanislaw Cielatko (Czelanthco), Sandomierz scholastic, and Mikolaj of Ciołek arms, in 1446. This occurred because the original was destroyed by the Hungarians.[2] The coats of arms of Strzemie, Trąby, Gryf, Janina, and Pobóg are on the vault of the church, and because of this, the Slownik Geograficzny suggests these may be noble houses that contributed to the development.[2]

The

Sigismund III of Poland in 1613. He revived the town and strengthened the prohibition against Jews, "because they hinder the townsmen in trade and buy up all the victuals," as described Strus, according to the Slownik Geograficzny.[2]

Sroczyński Palace

Good times ended in the 1650s. In 1655, the town was captured and destroyed by the Swedes (see the

George II Rakoczi, and in the first years of the 18th century - again by Swedish troops of King Charles XII of Sweden (see Great Northern War). Additionally, destructive fires occurred in Jasło in 1683, 1755, and 1826, which likely slowed development of the city.[2] The town was destroyed once again by the Russians during the Bar Confederation
.

St. Wojciech supposedly blessed while traveling from Hungary, existed in the church, which drew pilgrims to the town. The monastery was changed to an office for the starosta in 1786, the well cannot be found today.[2]

In 1772, after the

Galician peasant revolt. On June 12, 1846, the Galician riots bred a wave of anti-Jewish riots, which swept through the city, injuring and destroying the property of many of the native Jews. Very close to Jasło, the spirit refinery of Jacob Frant was burnt down. Fire-fighting utilities were ordered not to extinguish the fires by the district captain that arrived at the scene, and other authorities did not intervene. The city and surrounding villages were reported to contain six thousand inhabitants at this time, and a quarter of that population was Jewish, according to the special correspondent of The Jewish World newspaper at the time.[3] One of the clerics that mobilized the peasantry in the following 1848 anti-Austrian rising was Father Karol Szlegal from near Jasło.[4]

Memorial plaque at the former pharmacy of Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Between 1840 and 1849, the city maintained a population of about 1950 individuals, according to census data included in the Dictionary of Geography.

Jewish population rapidly increased, ingraining itself in the financial and commercial sectors of the city and nearby areas.[7]

Jasło County Council in 1900

In the early 20th century, the population of Jasło was 10,000. The town was well-kept and clean, a power plant was built in 1897, then a municipal park was opened, and in September 1900, Jasło was visited by Emperor

Franz Joseph of Austria. Between 1880 and 1902, agriculture and cloth manufacturing were the common main occupations in the area around the city.[2] Around 1910, the priest Kisevsky and his six gendarmes persecuted Eastern Orthodox peasants by fining them on trivial pretexts, and many were taken to the court in Jasło to receive their sentences. A Jewish lawyer represented the Orthodox peasants, and described that the Jews in the area were not persecuted for handling lit candles openly, for which the Orthodox peasants were fined.[8] The Ukrainian national group known as the Prosvita (Enlightenment) Society developed affiliates in Jasło between 1893 and 1903. By 1914, the Society spread to 22 Lemko villages, and promoted Ukrainian national ideology, identity, and language.[9]

Several

Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, Russian forces were pushed back by the Germans, who entered Jasło on May 6, 1915, at 22:30. Prussian commander August von Mackensen moved his headquarters to Jasło the following morning, after the line was pushed back several miles beyond the city.[11]
Following the war, in 1918, Poland regained independence and control of the town.

In the Second Polish Republic, Jasło was the seat of a county in Kraków Voivodeship. For most part of the interwar period, unemployment and poverty were prevalent, and the situation began slowly to improve in the late 1930s, after creation of the Central Industrial Region. In 1937, Gamrat chemical plant was opened, but all efforts were destroyed in the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939.

Monument commemorating the successful Kedyw operation from 5 August 1943

Under

Holocaust, were tied up with Jews by the Germans and deported with them.[14] In September and October 1944, after the Soviet–German frontline was established, and remained unchanged for several months, the Germans began expulsion of all inhabitants of Jasło, as the town was located on the front line. In the late autumn of 1944, Wehrmacht units burned the whole town, as the occupying German administration ordered the town to be destroyed, and as a result, 90% of Jasło was destroyed.[15]
It was one of the most destroyed Polish towns. In January 1945, only 365 people dwelled among the ruins of the town.

Etymology

The name derives from Old Polish common word for the "manger" or "trough [trof]" which sounded "jasło" < *jesło (before the Lechitic umlaut). Plausibly, it comes from the Slavonic verb "to eat" - "jeść" < *jesti. The Modern Polish equivalent is "żłób" or more seldom "koryto" and the word "jasło" is forgotten in this meaning. The Germanized version was Jassel or Jessel which appeared in 1325.[16]

Transport

Jasło is an important railroad junction of southeastern Poland, with trains going into three directions - eastwards (to Zagórz), westwards (to Stróże) and northeast, to Rzeszów. Another line, along the Wisłoka to Dębica, was planned in the interebellum period. Construction on it began in 1938, but it was never completed because of World War II.

Education

High School in Jasło

Sports

→Jasło is home to a sports club Czarni Jasło, founded in 1910.

→Polish Folk Dance

Churches of Jasło

Façade of St. Anthony's Church in Jasło

Jasło has a population that includes Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics, non-Catholics (mostly Protestants), and a small Jewish population. However, it is mainly Roman Catholic, and contains 9 Catholic Churches.

  • Św. Antoniego Padewskiego
  • Chrystusa Króla
  • Dobrego Pasterza
  • Matki Bożej Królowej Świata
  • Miłosierdzia Bożego
  • Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa
  • Świętego Stanisława
  • Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny
  • Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej

Notable people

Hugo Steinhaus
Michał Szpak

International relations

Town Hall
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns — Sister cities

Jasło is

twinned with:[17]

See also

References

  • "Central Statistical Office(GUS) - TERYT(National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2008. Archived from the original on 2013-10-25. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
  • "Municipal Office of the Town of Jaslo". Retrieved 2019-06-26.
Notes
  1. ^ "Population. Size and structure by territorial division" (PDF). © 1995-2009 Central Statistical Office 00-925 Warsaw, Al. Niepodległości 208. 2009-06-02. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2009-06-22. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Sulimierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski. Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego I Innych Krajów Słowiańskich: Warszawa 1880-1902. Translated by William F. "Fred" Hoffman. Warszawa: BUW. Sekcja Dokumentów Wtórnych, 2006. p. 488-490
  3. ^ "The Galician Riots." The Jewish World (New York City), July 1, 1898. p. 272
  4. ^ Stauter-Halsted, Keely. The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
  5. ^ Johnston, Alexander (1853). Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical, Forming a Complete General Gazetteer of the World. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 681.
  6. OCLC 36407723.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  7. OCLC 859528896.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
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  8. ^ Birkbeck, W. J. Religious Persecution in Galicia (Austrian Poland). Berridge, 1912. pp. 14-15
  9. OCLC 929239528.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  10. ^ Various. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April–September, 1915. 2005. From section: "Seven Days of War East and West"
  11. OCLC 993315423.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  12. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 258–259.
  13. ^ "Dzień Katyński w Jaśle: "zginął kwiat inteligencji polskiej"". terazJaslo.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  14. ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 110.
  15. ISSN 1641-9561
    .
  16. ISBN 83-01-13857-2
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jasło Official Website - "Współpraca Międzynarodowa Jasła" (Jasło's Twin Towns)". (in Polish) © 2008 Urząd Miasta w Jaśle. Archived from the original on 2008-03-17. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  18. ^ "Prague Partner Cities" (in Czech). © 2009 Magistrát hl. m. Prahy. Retrieved 2009-07-02.

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