Ostrów Mazowiecka

Coordinates: 52°48′N 21°54′E / 52.800°N 21.900°E / 52.800; 21.900
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Ostrów Mazowiecka
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Websitehttp://www.ostrowmaz.pl

Ostrów Mazowiecka

Ostrów Mazowiecka County in Masovian Voivodeship
.

History

Document of granting town rights from 1434

Ostrów was granted

Polish royal town, administratively located in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province
of the Kingdom of Poland.

The town's inhabitants took part in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794;[2] however, the following year it was annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland. In 1807 it was included in the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it became part of so-called Congress Poland within the Russian Partition of Poland. Many inhabitants took part in several battles of the Polish January Uprising of 1863–1864 against Russia, and an insurgent hospital was located in Ostrów.[2] Ostrów was subjected to anti-Polish repressions, was one of the sites of Russian executions of Polish insurgents, and there are memorials at the execution sites.[2] Despite such circumstances, in the following decades, various Polish organizations were founded in Ostrów.[2] In the 19th century, the town saw a significant influx of Jewish settlers as a result of Russian discriminatory policies, and according to the 1897 census, 5,660 inhabitants out of 10,471 were Jews.[3] During World War I, it was occupied by Germany, and after the war, in 1918, it became part of restored independent Poland. In 1919 a reserve battalion of the Polish 15th Wolves Infantry Regiment was stationed in Ostrów Mazowiecka.[4] It trained Polish soldiers to reinforce the 15th Wolves Infantry Regiment during the Polish–Soviet War.[4] In 1920 a battle was fought on the town's outskirts during the Polish–Soviet War.[2] After the war, the battalion with the entire regiment was relocated to Dęblin in 1921.[4]

World War II

During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Ostrów Mazowiecka was captured by Germany on September 8, 1939,[2] and in mid-September the Einsatzgruppe V entered the town to commit various atrocities against the population.[5] Already on 19 September the Germans arrested nine Poles, including chairmen of local veterans' organizations Włodzimierz Gadomski and Jan Radbalski.[6] On 9 November 1939, one of the German soldiers set fire to the buildings on 3-ego Maja Street. The German authorities accused the Jews of starting the fire. On 11 November (though according to other sources, on 10 November) 500–800 Jews were killed by the German police in the Ostrów Mazowiecka massacre.[7]

Graves of Home Army soldiers

The

Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The NKVD and UB repressed members of the Polish resistance movement and began arresting and deporting them to the Soviet Union in September 1944.[12] Many members of the Home Army soon returned to the underground and continued their resistance against the communists.[12]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
189710,471—    
192113,425+28.2%
193117,611+31.2%
201022,536+28.0%
Source: [3][13][14]

Transport

Ostrów Mazowiecka is located at the intersection of Polish S8 and S61 highways, with the latter still under construction (as of 2021).

International relations

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

Twin towns – Sister cities

Ostrów Mazowiecka is

twinned
with:

Notable people

Gallery

  • Church of the Assumption
    Church of the Assumption
  • Duchess Anna Radziwiłł monument
    Duchess Anna Radziwiłł
    monument
  • Mensa carnifiucium
    Mensa carnifiucium
  • Municipal park
    Municipal park

References

  1. ^ Demographic Yearbook of Poland 2014 Archived 2016-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Andrzej Mierzwiński. "Spacerkiem przez dzieje". Urząd Miasta Ostrów Mazowiecka (in Polish). Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b "JewishGen Locality Page - Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland". Archived from the original on 2016-05-05. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  4. ^ a b c Wiącek, Wojciech (1929). Zarys historji wojennej 15-go pułku piechoty (in Polish). Warszawa. pp. 33–34.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 54.
  6. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 112
  7. ^ "History - Jewish community before 1989 - Ostrów Mazowiecka - Virtual Shtetl". Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  8. ^ Księga pamięci żołnierzy Armii Krajowej Obwodu Ostrów Maz. 1939-1944 (in Polish). Warszawa. 2007. p. 9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ a b Księga pamięci żołnierzy Armii Krajowej Obwodu Ostrów Maz. 1939-1944, p. 10
  10. ^ Księga pamięci żołnierzy Armii Krajowej Obwodu Ostrów Maz. 1939-1944, p. 16
  11. ^ Księga pamięci żołnierzy Armii Krajowej Obwodu Ostrów Maz. 1939-1944, p. 14
  12. ^ a b Księga pamięci żołnierzy Armii Krajowej Obwodu Ostrów Maz. 1939-1944, p. 23
  13. ^ Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (in Polish). Vol. X. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1932. p. 140.
  14. ^ Stan i struktura ludności oraz ruch naturalny w przekroju terytorialnym w 2010 r. (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 2011. p. 74. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2011.

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