Przeworsk

Coordinates: 50°4′N 22°30′E / 50.067°N 22.500°E / 50.067; 22.500
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Przeworsk
Market Town
Town Hall
Town Hall
Car plates
RPZ
Websitewww.przeworsk.um.gov.pl

Przeworsk (Polish:

romanized: Prshevorsk) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 15,675 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009.[1] Since 1999 it has been in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, and is the capital of Przeworsk County. The ancient Przeworsk culture
was named after the town.

Przeworsk was a settlement since the 10th century, though evidence of human settlement in the general area is even older. It is first mentioned in historical records from the 13th century, and was granted its town charter in 1394. From 1772 the town was part of the Habsburg monarchy where it remained until 1918 when an independent Poland returned. Przeworsk is located on European route E40. It also is an important railway junction, with trains going in three directions – east (towards Przemyśl), west (towards Rzeszów) and north (towards Stalowa Wola).

Przeworsk has some 60 historic buildings, including two fortified Gothic abbeys, a town hall, the Lubomirski Palace in classical style, a baroque monastery, and an open-air museum (skansen). The town covers an area of 22 square kilometres (8.5 square miles).

History

Name variations

In 13th century Ruthenian documents, Przeworsk was spelt Pereworesk. In the 14th and 15th centuries, its name was subject to variation. It was called Preworsko, Przeworsko, Przeworszko, Przeworscho, Przeiworsko, Przyworsko and Prziborsko. Since the 15th century, the name Przeworsko was most often used.

Recorded history

In the early

Poland and the Rus', and even fell to the Mongol Empire in the mid-13th century. It was first mentioned in documents from 1280, when, after the Battle of Gozlice (23 February 1280) between Lesser Polish and Ruthenian-Tatar forces, Duke Leszek II the Black raided the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, then vassal of the Golden Horde
, capturing and setting alight the city of "Perevoresk"

"Въ лѣт̑ 6789 (1281) Иде Льстько на Лва и взѧ оу него городъ Переворескъ и исъсѣче и люди в нем̑ вси ѿ мала и до велика и город̑ зажьже и поиде назадъ во своӕси"[2]

In the year 6789, (1281) Leszek attacked Leo I of Galicia, and took his city of Perevoresk and killed all in it, sparing neither young or old and having burnt the town to the ground he left.

Monument of Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło who vested Przeworsk with town rights in 1393

After the

Jan of Tarnow, Leliwa coat of arms
. Przeworsk grew fast, and on 25 February 1393, Jagiełło granted it a town charter.

Until the 18th century, Przeworsk was a

above sea level
. Its center was protected by a rampart with a moat. The town hall was built in the 15th century.

Since

Charles X Gustav of Sweden
spent one night here, during his failed raid on south-central Poland. Przeworsk suffered in several successive fires (1712, 1717, 1739, 1740, 1759). All these events contributed to the town's steep decline.

Sugar factory in the early 20th century

In First Partition of Poland, in 1772, Przeworsk was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, remaining in Austrian Galicia until November 1918. In the late 18th century, the Austrian authorities pulled down the obsolete late-medieval ramparts and gates. The town remained in decline until the late 19th century, when it became a railway junction, and a center of sugar production, with the Przeworsk Sugar Refinery (1895). In 1859, Przeworsk was connected by rail with Kraków by the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis. In 1902 it had a new railroad to Rozwadów, and in 1904, a narrow gauge line to Dynów was completed. The population began to grow, new housing was built, together with a monument dedicated to King Władysław II Jagiełło (1910), but World War I brought destruction to the town.

In 1918 Poland regained independence, and in the Second Polish Republic Przeworsk was part of Lwów Voivodeship. In 1929, it became of a county seat and in 1930, several buildings burned down in a fire.

During the joint German-Soviet

German extermination camps
.

The Pshevorsk Hasidic dynasty, which originated in Przeworsk, is now mainly located in Antwerp, Belgium.

Tourist attractions

Sights of Przeworsk
Lubomirski Palace
Basilica of the Holy Spirit
Daughters of Charity monastery
Defensive town walls
Bernardine Church
Open-air museum
  • Basilica of the Holy Spirit, built in the 15th century with a unique chapel – Tomb of Jesus Christ (the same as in Jerusalem)
  • Gothic Church of the Bernardine Order
  • Palace and park of Lubomirski family
  • Baroque Daughters of Charity monastery and Our Lady of the Snow church
  • Gothic defensive town walls
  • Monument of Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło at the Rynek (Market Square)
  • The only truly "vivid" open-air museum in Poland, with wooden houses from Przeworsk and the surrounding region.
  • The Wąskotorówka Train (
    narrow gauge railway
    ) going from Przeworsk to Dynów.
  • Firefighting Museum

Sport

The local football team is Orzeł Przeworsk [pl]. It competes in the lower leagues.

People associated with Przeworsk

International relations

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

Twin towns – Sister cities

Przeworsk is

twinned
with:

References

Notes
  1. ^ "Population. Size and structure by territorial division" (PDF). 1995–2009 Central Statistical Office 00-925 Warsaw, Al. Niepodległości 208. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2009. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Ruthenian chronicle after the Hypatian list, Galicia-Volhynian chronicle
  3. ^ "Muzeum w Przeworsku wspomina pierwsze dni II wojny światowej". MojPrzeworsk.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  4. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 58–59.
  5. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 257

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