Kalisz
Kalisz | |
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UTC+2 (CEST) | |
Postal code | 62-800 to 62-810 |
Area code | (+48) 62 |
Car plates | PK, PA |
Climate | Dfb |
Website | www.kalisz.pl |
Kalisz (Polish: [ˈkaliʂ] ⓘ) is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021).[1] It is the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of Greater Poland, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Nowe Skalmierzyce.
Kalisz is one of the oldest cities in Poland and one of the two traditional capitals of Greater Poland (alongside
History
There are many artefacts from Roman times in the area of Kalisz, indicating that the settlement had once been a stop of the Roman caravans heading for the Baltic Sea along the trade route of the Amber Trail.[2] Calisia had been mentioned by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, although the connection is doubted by some historians who claim that the location mentioned by Ptolemy was situated in the territory of the Diduni in Magna Germania.
Middle Ages
Archaeological excavations have uncovered early medieval settlement from the
In 1106, Bolesław III Wrymouth captured the town, and made it a part of his feudal domain. Between 1253 and 1260 the town was incorporated according to the German town law called the Środa Śląska Law (after Środa Śląska), a local variation of the Magdeburg Law, and soon started to grow. One of the richest towns of Greater Poland, during the feudal fragmentation of Poland it formed a separate duchy ruled by a local branch of the Piast dynasty.
In 1264, the Statute of Kalisz was issued in the city by Bolesław the Pious. It was a unique protective privilege for Jews during their persecution in Western Europe, which in the following centuries made Poland the destination of Jewish migration from other countries. After Poland was reunited, the town became a centre of weaving and wood products, as well as one of the cultural centres of Greater Poland.
In 1282 the
1500–1914
In 1574 the
The economic development of the area was aided by a large number of Protestant Czech Brothers, who settled in and around Kalisz after being expelled from Bohemia in 1620.
In the 18th century, one of two main routes connecting Warsaw and Dresden ran through the city, and Kings Augustus II the Strong and Augustus III of Poland often traveled that route.[5] In 1789, 881 Jews lived in Kalisz, 29% of the city’s population.[6] In 1792, a fire destroyed much of the city centre.
At various times, the 1st and 7th Infantry Regiments of the Polish Crown Army were stationed in Kalisz.[7]
In 1793, in the Second Partition of Poland, the Kingdom of Prussia absorbed the city, called Kalisch in German. That year Jews were 40% of the population.[8] In 1801, Wojciech Bogusławski set up one of the first permanent theatre troupes in Kalisz.
In 1806, the 8th Polish Infantry Regiment was formed in Kalisz and the 6th Polish Infantry Regiment was formed in the present-day district of Dobrzec.[9] After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and became a provincial capital within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, following Yorck's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, von Stein's Treaty of Kalisz was signed between Russia and Prussia in 1813, confirming that Prussia now was on the side of the Allies.
After the defeat of
In 1902, a new railway linked Kalisz to Warsaw and Łódź. Since the 19th century, Kalisz was one of the leading Polish centers of piano manufacturing. In the early 20th century, it became the leading center, surpassing Warsaw.[12]
World War I and interwar period
With the outbreak of World War I, the proximity of the border proved disastrous for Kalisz; it was one of the first cities destroyed in 1914. Between 2 and 22 August, Kalisz was shelled and then burned to the ground by German forces under Major Hermann Preusker, even though Russian troops had retreated from the city without defending it and German troops – many of them ethnic Poles – had initially been welcomed peaceably. Eight hundred men were arrested and then several of them slaughtered, while the city was set on fire and the remaining inhabitants were expelled. Out of roughly 68,000 citizens in 1914, only 5,000 remained in Kalisz a year later. By the end of the Great War, however, much of the city centre had been more or less rebuilt and many of the former inhabitants had been allowed to return.[13]
After the war Kalisz became part of the newly independent
World War II
After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the proximity of the border once again proved disastrous. Kalisz was captured by the Wehrmacht after Polish resistance,[17] and the city was annexed by Germany. In revenge for resistance, the Wehrmacht carried out massacres of Polish defenders, who were executed both in the city and in the nearby settlement of Winiary (today, a district of Kalisz).[17] Over 1,000 people were arrested as hostages.[17] Numerous Poles were arrested and murdered during the Intelligenzaktion aimed at annihilation of the Polish intelligentsia. Around 750 Poles from Kalisz, Ostrów Wielkopolski, and other nearby settlements were imprisoned in the Kalisz prison from September 1939 to March 1940, and most were murdered in large massacres in the Winiary forest.[18] In November 1939, the Einsatzgruppe VI Nazi paramilitary killing squad murdered 41 Poles at the local Jewish cemetery; among the victims was pre-war Polish mayor of Kalisz, Ignacy Bujnicki.[19] In April and May 1940, many Poles arrested in the region, especially teachers, were imprisoned in the local prison, and afterwards deported to the Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps, where they were murdered.[20]
In Kalisz, the Germans established a Germanisation camp for Polish children taken away from their parents (Gaukinderheim).[21] The children were given new German names and surnames, and were punished for any use of the Polish language, even with death (e.g., a 14-year-old boy Zygmunt Światłowski was murdered).[21] After their stay in the camp, the children were deported to Germany; only some returned to Poland after the war, while the fate of many remains unknown to this day.[21]
By the end of World War II approximately 30,000 local Jews had been murdered, and 20,000 local Catholics were either murdered or
Following the war, Jewish
1950-present
In 1975, after Edward Gierek's reform of the administrative division of Poland, Kalisz again became the capital of a province – Kalisz Voivodeship; the province was abolished in 1998, however, and since then Kalisz has been the county seat of a separate powiat within the Greater Poland Voivodeship. In 1976, the city limits were greatly expanded by the incorporation of the surrounding settlements of Majków, Nosków, Piwonice and Szczypiorno as new districts.[23] The Polish anti-communist resistance Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights issued independent underground press in the city.[24] In August 1980, employees of local factories joined the nationwide anti-communist strikes,[25] which led to the foundation of the Solidarity organization, which played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland.
In 1991 the city festival was inaugurated on 11 June to commemorate the confirmation of the incorporation of the city in 1282. In 1992, Kalisz became the seat of a separate diocese of the Catholic Church.[2] In 1997 Kalisz was visited by Pope John Paul II.[2]
The city was the site of the former 'Calisia' piano factory, until it went out of business in 2007. The factory building was transformed into the Calisia One Hotel, which opened in 2019.[citation needed]
In November 2021, Polish far-right nationalists held an anti-semitic rally in Kalisz attended by hundreds of people. They burned a red-covered book meant to symbolize the 1264 Statute of Kalisz, historic pact protecting Poland's Jewish rights.[26]
Climate
Kalisz has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb) using the −3 °C (27 °F) isotherm or a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) using the 0 °C (32 °F) isotherm.[27][28]
Climate data for Kalisz (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1951–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 13.8 (56.8) |
18.1 (64.6) |
22.7 (72.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
31.4 (88.5) |
36.6 (97.9) |
36.9 (98.4) |
38.0 (100.4) |
35.1 (95.2) |
27.2 (81.0) |
19.3 (66.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
38.0 (100.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.7 (35.1) |
3.4 (38.1) |
7.8 (46.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
19.4 (66.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
19.4 (66.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
7.2 (45.0) |
2.9 (37.2) |
13.6 (56.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −0.8 (30.6) |
0.3 (32.5) |
3.7 (38.7) |
9.4 (48.9) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.3 (63.1) |
19.5 (67.1) |
19.3 (66.7) |
14.4 (57.9) |
9.2 (48.6) |
4.4 (39.9) |
0.6 (33.1) |
9.3 (48.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.0 (26.6) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
0.3 (32.5) |
4.6 (40.3) |
9.0 (48.2) |
12.3 (54.1) |
14.2 (57.6) |
14.2 (57.6) |
10.1 (50.2) |
5.9 (42.6) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
5.5 (41.9) |
Record low °C (°F) | −28.5 (−19.3) |
−28.3 (−18.9) |
−21.1 (−6.0) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
2.4 (36.3) |
4.0 (39.2) |
4.8 (40.6) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−16.6 (2.1) |
−25.1 (−13.2) |
−28.5 (−19.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 26.4 (1.04) |
24.3 (0.96) |
33.2 (1.31) |
26.9 (1.06) |
53.0 (2.09) |
54.8 (2.16) |
77.3 (3.04) |
54.3 (2.14) |
46.0 (1.81) |
36.8 (1.45) |
31.0 (1.22) |
29.7 (1.17) |
493.8 (19.44) |
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 5.0 (2.0) |
4.2 (1.7) |
2.4 (0.9) |
0.8 (0.3) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.2 (0.1) |
1.5 (0.6) |
3.6 (1.4) |
5.0 (2.0) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 15.17 | 13.33 | 13.00 | 10.47 | 12.50 | 13.00 | 13.40 | 11.70 | 10.87 | 12.43 | 13.13 | 15.13 | 154.13 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0 cm) | 12.5 | 10.2 | 4.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 7.1 | 37.3 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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87.9 | 84.7 | 79.3 | 71.1 | 72.5 | 72.9 | 71.9 | 71.2 | 78.2 | 84.3 | 89.4 | 89.4 | 79.4 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 49.3 | 69.6 | 120.8 | 195.2 | 248.1 | 253.4 | 253.3 | 242.9 | 160.5 | 110.7 | 52.0 | 41.0 | 1,796.7 |
Source 1: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Meteomodel.pl (records, relative humidity 1991–2020)[37][38][39] |
City neighbourhoods
Name | Population | Area (km2) | Area (mi2) |
---|---|---|---|
Asnyka | 5697 | 0.44 | 0.1698849 |
Chmielnik | 3612 | 3.28 | 1.266415 |
Czaszki | 7130 | 0.67 | 0.2586884 |
Dobro | 597 | 1.96 | 0.7567602 |
Dobrzec | 867 | 8.62 | 3.328201 |
Dobrzec P | 8599 | 1.51 | 0.5830143 |
Dobrzec W | 5503 | 0.38 | 0.146719 |
Kaliniec | 4685 | 0.36 | 0.1389968 |
Korczak | 4459 | 0.73 | 0.281855 |
Majków | 3311 | 2.96 | 1.142862 |
Ogrody | 2073 | 2.06 | 0.7953704 |
Piskorzewie | 1915 | 1.99 | 0.7683433 |
Piwonice | 2660 | 8.72 | 3.366811 |
Rajsków | 1884 | 3.43 | 1.32433 |
Rogatka | 2720 | 0.27 | 0.1042476 |
Rypinek | 3708 | 4.48 | 1.729738 |
Sulisławice | 835 | 4.68 | 1.806958 |
Sulisławice Kolonia | 164 | 1.19 | 0.4594616 |
Szczypiorno | 1529 | 5.87 | 2.26642 |
Śródmieście | 17258 | 1.76 | 0.6795398 |
Tyniec | 4189 | 3.02 | 1.166029 |
Widok | 6516 | 0.44 | 0.1698849 |
Winiary | 2491 | 5.40 | 2.08495 |
XXV-lecia | 5094 | 1.02 | 0.3938242 |
Zagorzynek | 2773 | 3.89 | 1.501937 |
Religion
There are 19
Education
Kalisz is a centre of education in the region. It is home to 29 primary schools, 15 junior high schools, and five
Economy
Although there is little heavy industry within the city limits, Kalisz is home to several large enterprises. It has the Winiary (part of the Nestlé group) and Colian food processing plants and the Big Star jeans factory. Two plane engine production factories, WSK-Kalisz and Pratt & Whitney Kalisz (a branch of Pratt & Whitney Canada), are located in Kalisz.
Cuisine
The
Another officially protected traditional specialty of the area (as designated by the
Sports
The district of Szczypiorno, as the place of pioneering games of handball in Poland, is the namesake for szczypiorniak, the Polish name of the sport. Other popular sports in Kalisz include football and volleyball. Notable sports teams include:
- MKS Kalisz – men's handball team playing in the Polish Superliga (top division; as of 2021–22)
- SSK Calisia Kalisz – women's volleyball team playing in the Polish Women's Volleyball League (top division; as of 2021–22), four times Polish Champions (1997, 1998, 2005, 2007)
- )
Kalisz is also the location of Kaliskie Towarzystwo Wioślarskie , one of the oldest Polish rowing clubs, founded in 1894.
Transport
Etymology
The name Kalisz is thought[by whom?] to stem from the archaic kal, meaning swamp or marsh.[citation needed]
Notable people
- Adam Asnyk (1838–1897), poet
- Meir Auerbach (1815–1878), Polish-born Israeli, author and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
- Shabbethai Bass (1641–1718), author and founder of Jewish bibliography
- Wojciech Bogusławski (1757–1829), actor, theater director and playwright
- Bolesław the Pious (1224/27–1279), duke of Greater Poland
- Krystyna Borowicz (1923–2009), actress
- Juliusz Bursche (1862–1942), bishop
- Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965), writer
- Holocaust survivor
- Solomon Eger (1785–1852), rabbi
- Agaton Giller (1831–1887), patriotic activist
- Stefan Giller (1833–1918), poet, an epigone of the Polish Romanticism
- Cyprian Godebski (1765–1809), freedom fighter and poet
- Avraham Gombiner (1635–1682), Jewish rabbi and scholar
- Adam Hofman (born 1980), politician
- Simon Horontchik (1889–1939), Polish-Yiddish novelist and short story writer
- Julian Klemczyński (1807–1851), composer
- Augustyn Kordecki (1603–1673), prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery and hero of The Deluge
- Alfred Kowalski (1849–1915), painter
- Yehiel Krize (1908–1968) Polish-born Israeli painter
- Jerzy Kryszak (born 1950), actor
- Theodor Meron (born 1930), Polish-born American president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Bonawentura Niemojowski (1787–1835), journalist
- Wincenty Niemojowski (1784–1834), journalist
- Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar (1874–1952), poet
- Leopold Pilichowski (1869–1933), realist painter
- Zofia Poznańska (1906–1942), anti-Nazi resistance fighter
- Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi
- Stanisław Saks (1897–1942), mathematician, member of the Polish Underground State, killed by the Gestapo
- Wojciech Siemion (1928–2010), actor and director
- Zdzisława Sośnicka (born 1945), singer
- Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985), composer
- Jerzy Świrski (1882–1959), vice admiral
- Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), sculptor and Holocaust survivor
- Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński (1861–1896), traveler and explorer
- Stanislaw Szymanski (1862–1944), factory manager, industrialist, and activist
- Alicja Tchórz (born 1992), swimmer
- Marta Walczykiewicz (born 1987), sprint canoer, Olympic medalist
- Chaim Elozor Wax (1822–1889), Hasidic rabbi and philanthropist
- Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), president of Poland
- Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski (born 1936), musician
- Iga Wyrwał (born 1989), glamour model
- Eve Zaremba (born 1930), Polish-born Canadian writer
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Kalisz is
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See also
- History of the Jews in Kalisz
- Kalisz Department (Polish: Departament Kaliski): a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1807–1815
- Kaliszanie
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External links
- Kalisz travel guide from Wikivoyage
- www.kalisz.pl
- Jewish Encyclopedia: "Kalisz” by Herman Rosenthal, Judah Eisenstein, and J. G. Lipman (1906).