Radom

Coordinates: 51°24′13″N 21°9′24″E / 51.40361°N 21.15667°E / 51.40361; 21.15667
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This article is about the city in Poland. For other uses, see Radom (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Radon.
Radom
Sandomierz Palace
City Hall
Baroque townhouses at the Market Square
Resursa
Saint Catherine church
  • Sandomierz Palace
  • City Hall
  • Baroque townhouses at the Market Square
  • Resursa
  • Saint Catherine church
Radom Airport
Websitehttp://www.radom.pl

Radom

Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship. Radom is the fifteenth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in its province with a population of 196,918 (30.06.2023)[3]

For centuries, Radom was part of the

Kingdom of Poland and the later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Despite being part of the Masovian Voivodeship, the city historically belongs to Lesser Poland. It was a significant center of administration, having served as seat of the Crown Council which ratified the Pact of Vilnius and Radom between Lithuania and Poland in 1401. The Nihil novi and Łaski's Statute were adopted by the Sejm at Radom's Royal Castle in 1505. In 1976, it was a center of the June 1976 protests
.

The city is home to the biennial

Łucznik Arms Factory. The city continues to produce military firearms for the Polish Armed Forces
.

The international Radom Jazz Festival and the International Gombrowicz Theater Festival are held in the city.

History

Further information: Timeline of Radom
Saint Wenceslaus church, the city's oldest church

Radom's original settlement dates back to the 8th–9th century. It was an early medieval town in the valley of the Mleczna River (on the approximate site of present-day Old Town). In the second half of the 10th century, it became a

Leszek I the White. The first documented mention of Radom comes from the year 1155, in a bull of Pope Adrian IV (villam iuxta Rado, que vocatur Zlauno, or a village near Radom, called Sławno). By 1233, Radom was the seat of a castellan. The name of the city comes from the ancient Slavic given name Radomir, and Radom means a gord, which belongs to Radomir.[4]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
195080,298—    
1960130,116+62.0%
1970159,480+22.6%
1980191,053+19.8%
1990228,487+19.6%
2000230,492+0.9%
2010222,496−3.5%
2020209,296−5.9%
source [5]
Saint John the Baptist church, founded by King Casimir III the Great in the 14th century

In the second half of the 13th century, Radom was granted a

Kazimierz Wielki established the so-called New Town, with a royal castle, a defensive wall, and a town hall. There was also a market square and a grid plan of the streets, patterned after Gothic German towns. The area of New Town was 9 hectares, and the length of the defensive wall was 1,100 meters. Radom had three gates, named after main merchant roads: Iłża Gate, Piotrków Trybunalski Gate, and Lublin Gate. The defensive wall was further protected by 25 fortified towers. New Town had the Church of John the Baptist
, and the Royal Castle was built between the church and the moat.

In 1364, Radom's obsolete Środa Śląska rights were replaced with more modern Magdeburg rights, and residents gained several privileges as a result.[6] At that time, Radom was located along the so-called Oxen Trail, from Ruthenian lands to Silesia. In 1376, the city became the seat of a starosta, and entered the period of its greatest prosperity.[7]

Poland's Golden Age

King

Mikołaj Radomski, one of the earliest Polish composers, comes from Radom. In 1468, the complex of a Bernardine church and monastery was founded here by King Jagiellon, with support of the local starosta, Dominik z Kazanowa. The complex was originally made of wood (until 1507).[8]

Plaque at the Radom Castle commemorating the adoption of the Nihil novi act in Radom in 1505

In 1481, Radom became the residence of Prince

Stephen Bathory and his wife Anna Jagiellon, Sigismund III Vasa, and Augustus III of Poland. In 1623 many residents died in an epidemic, and in 1628, half of Radom burned in a fire.[6]

The period of prosperity ended during the Swedish invasion of Poland. The Swedish army captured the city without a fight in November 1655. At first the invaders behaved correctly, as King Charles X Gustav still sought alliances within the Polish-Lithuanian nobility; the situation changed, however, in early 1656, when anti-Swedish uprisings broke out in southern Lesser Poland and quickly spread across the country. Radom was looted and almost completely destroyed in August 1656. Its population shrank from some 2,000 before the war, to 395 in 1660, with only 37 houses still standing. Swedish soldiers burned the royal castle and the monastery. With the Polish population in decline, the number of Jewish settlers grew by the early 18th century. In 1682 the first Piarists arrived, and in 1737–1756, opened a college.[11] The 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Polish Crown Army was stationed in Radom at various times.[12]

Piarist College in the 19th century

Late modern era

Radom remained within the Sandomierz Voivodeship of the

Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Third Partition of Poland (1795). For a few years (1795–1809) it was part of the Austrian province of West Galicia. After the Polish victory in the Austro-Polish War of 1809, it was part of the Polish Duchy of Warsaw, which named it capital of the Radom Department. From 1815 the city belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland, remaining a regional administrative center. In 1816–1837 it was the capital of the Sandomierz Voivodeship, whose capital, despite the name, was at Radom. In 1837–1844 it was the capital of the Sandomierz Governorate, and from 1844 until the outbreak of World War I, the capital of the Radom Governorate. The Polish 5th Line Infantry Regiment, which later fought against Russia in the November Uprising, was stationed in Radom.[13] The city was an important center of the November Uprising. Its obsolete and ruined fortifications were destroyed upon order of Mayor Józef Królikowski. In the early days of the January Uprising, Marian Langiewicz visited Radom, preparing the rebellion. In the 19th century, Radom was one of the leading centers of the new art of photography in partitioned Poland, alongside major cities of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków and Wilno.[14] In 1867 a sewage system was built. Russians closed down the Benedictine monastery and established a Tsarist prison in its place.[15] Streets were gradually paved, and in 1885, a rail line from Dąbrowa Górnicza to Dęblin was completed, via Radom. In the early 20th century a power plant was built. In 1906, notable Polish independence fighter Kazimierz Sosnkowski, future politician and general, escaped from Warsaw to Radom, pursued by the Russian Okhrana.[16] In Radom, he continued his secret activities, and became the commander of the local Combat Organization, before he eventually had to escape again, this time to the Dąbrowa Basin.[16]

During World War I, the city was captured by the Austro-Hungarian Army in July 1915. An Austrian garrison remained until November 1918.

City map from 1919

In the

Central Industrial Area
, several new factories were built; by 1938, the population had grown to 80,000. The city was also a military garrison, serving as headquarters of the 72nd Infantry Regiment.

World War II

On September 1, 1939, the first day of the German invasion of Poland and World War II, the Germans air raided the city.[17] On September 8, 1939, Radom was captured by the Wehrmacht, and was afterwards occupied by Germany. On September 21, 1939, the German Einsatzgruppe II entered the city to commit various crimes against the population, and afterwards its members co-formed the local German police and security forces.[18] The Germans immediately confiscated the food stored in warehouses in Radom and nearby settlements, and carried out requisitions in the city council.[19] The occupiers established a special court in Radom,[20] and two temporary prisoner-of-war camps for captured Polish soldiers, one in the pre-war military barracks and one in the Tadeusz Kościuszko Park.[21] There were poor conditions in the camp in the barracks, and hunger and diseases were common.[22] The local civilian population helped many POWs escape from the camp.[23]

Former seat of the Gestapo and NKVD during the occupation

From October 1939 to January 1940, the Germans carried out several public executions of Polish civilians in various locations in Radom, killing 111 people.[24] The Germans also operated a heavy prison in the city,[25] and carried mass arrests of hundreds of Poles, who were then held in the prison.[26] Many Poles expelled from Gdynia in 1939 were placed in a temporary transit camp in a local church, before they were sent to nearby settlements.[27]

The occupiers liquidated local cultural and social life.[28] All sports clubs and high schools were closed, and teaching of literature, geography and history in the remaining schools was prohibited.[29]

In March and May 1940, the Germans carried out massacres of 210 Poles, including teenagers, from Radom and nearby settlements in the city's Firlej district.[30] Around 100 Poles from Radom were murdered by the Russians in the large Katyn massacre in April–May 1940.[31] In July, August and November 1940, the Germans carried out deportations of Poles from the local prison to the Auschwitz concentration camp.[32] Deportations to concentration camps continued throughout the war, and 18,000 people passed through the local prison, mostly Polish political activists, resistance members and innocent people, plus ordinary criminals.[33] At the large massacre sites in the present-day districts of Firlej and Kosów, the Germans murdered around 15,000 and 1,500 people, respectively.[34]

Monument and cemetery in Firlej where the Germans murdered around 15,000 Poles and Jews

In October 1940, the German occupiers established a forced labour camp for Jews,[35] and in 1941, they formed the Radom Ghetto, with a population of 34,000 Jews, most of whom perished at the Treblinka extermination camp.[17] According to German regulations, sheltering Jews outside the ghetto was punishable by death.[36] The secret Polish Council to Aid Jews "Żegota", established by the Polish resistance movement operated in the city.[37]

Radom was a center of Polish resistance, with various organizations, such as

Gray Ranks who worked at the local post office stole and destroyed anonymous letters to the Gestapo, thus possibly saving many lives.[33] Two German doctors from a local hospital helped the Polish resistance, for which one was even arrested and sent to a concentration camp.[33] In April 1943, the resistance successfully assassinated the chief of the local German police.[39]

In 1944, following the Polish Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported thousands of Varsovians from the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków, where they were initially imprisoned, to Radom.[40] Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children.[40] 3,500 Poles expelled from Warsaw stayed in the city, as of November 1, 1944.[40]

In January 1945, the occupiers sent the last transport of prisoners from Radom to Auschwitz, but it only reached Częstochowa, while the remaining prisoners were massacred in Firlej.[33]

On January 16, 1945, the city was captured by the

resistance movement attacked the communist prison and liberated nearly 500 prisoners.[33]

Radom in the 1970s

Up to the

Imperial 1897 census, out of the total population of 28,700, Jews constituted 11,200 (~39%).[41][42]

Current events

From 1975 to 1998, it was the seat of the Radom Voivodeship. In 1954 and 1984, city limits were greatly expanded by including several settlements as new districts,[43] including Długojów Górny, Huta Józefowska, Janiszpol, Józefów, Kierzków, Kończyce, Krychnowice, Krzewień, Malczew, Mleczna, Nowa Wola Gołębiowska, Nowiny Malczewskie, Stara Wola Gołębiowska, Wincentów, Wólka Klwatecka.[44]

In 2007, two pilots died in an accident at the air show, resulting in the cancellation of the rest of the event. On 30 August 2009, also during the air show, another two pilots who represented Belarus were killed when their plane crashed.

Radom was one of the main centres of the strike action taken by Polish health care workers in 2007.

Geography

Climate

Radom has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb).

Climate data for Radom
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Daily mean °C (°F) −4.7
(23.5) 		−3.3
(26.1) 		2.1
(35.8) 		8.4
(47.1) 		13.2
(55.8) 		16.4
(61.5) 		18.0
(64.4) 		17.4
(63.3) 		13.7
(56.7) 		8.8
(47.8) 		3.2
(37.8) 		−1.9
(28.6) 		7.6
(45.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 26
(1.0) 		25
(1.0) 		28
(1.1) 		37
(1.5) 		59
(2.3) 		76
(3.0) 		79
(3.1) 		66
(2.6) 		45
(1.8) 		36
(1.4) 		38
(1.5) 		34
(1.3) 		549
(21.6)
Source: Climate-Data.org[45]

Places of interest

Radom Cathedral

Culture

Building of the former Land Credit Society
Jacek Malczewski Museum and Polish Legions monument

The arts

Philharmonic

Cinemas

Theatre

  • Jan Kochanowski Theatre[48]

Museums and art galleries

Sports

Polish Basketball League match between Rosa Radom and Trefl Sopot in Radom in 2014

Transport

Transport in Radom

Radom is an important railroad junction, where two lines meet: east–west connection from Lublin to Łódź, and north–south from Warsaw to Kielce, and Kraków. The city is also located close to

Radom Airport
, an airport located 3.5 km (2 mi) from the center of Radom.

  • Transport in Radom - Gallery
  • Radom Airport
    Radom Airport
  • Bus Solaris Urbino 12
    Bus Solaris Urbino 12
  • Main railway station
    Main railway station
  • Biking in Radom
    Biking in Radom

Education

University of Radom

Radom is home to about 20 schools of higher education:

Public Library
  • University of Radom (Uniwersytet Radomski)[52]
  • Instytut Teologiczny Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Radomiu - department of theology
  • Kolegium Nauczycielskie[53]
  • Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych[54]
  • Niepubliczne Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych[55]
  • Niepubliczne Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych TWP[56]
  • University College of Environmental Sciences (Wyższa Szkoła Ochrony Środowiska)[57]
  • Radomska Szkoła Zarządzania
  • Warsaw Agricultural University - department in Radom (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie)
  • College of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Kolegium licencjackie Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej)[58]
  • Warsaw University - department in Radom (Uniwersytet Warszawski)[59][60]
  • Maria Curie-Skłodowska University - department in Radom (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej)[61]
  • Wyższa Inżynierska Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa i Organizacji Pracy[62]
  • Higher Business College (Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu)[63]
  • Higher Financial and Banking College (Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Bankowości)[64]
  • Higher Merchant College (Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa)[65]
  • Higher Seminary (Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne)[66]
  • Higher Journalis College (Wyższa Szkoła Dziennikarska)[67]
  • Zespół Szkół Medycznych[68]

Other

Headquarters of Polish Armaments Group
Łucznik Arms Factory

Politics

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Radom constituency

  • Ewa Kopacz (PO)
  • Dariusz Bąk (PIS)
  • Mirosław Maliszewski (PSL)
  • Czesław Czechyra (PO)
  • Marek Suski (PIS)
  • Marek Wikiński (SLD),
  • Radosław Witkowski (PO)
  • Krzysztof Sońta (PIS)
  • Sandra Pachocka (NIC)
Courthouse

International relations

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

Twin towns — sister cities

Radom is

twinned with:[69][70]

Former twin towns:

On 28 February 2022, Radom ended its partnership with the Russian city of Ozyory and the Belarusian city of Homyel as a reaction to the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[73]

Notable people

Jan Kochanowski monument
Jacek Malczewski monument
Leszek Kołakowski monument

Notable people who have been born, have lived or have worked in Radom:

Notes

  1. ^
    • Pronunciation:
      • UK: /ˈrɑːdɒm/ RAH-dom[2]
      • Polish: [ˈradɔm] ⓘ
      • romanized
        : Rodem

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  47. ^ Helios cinemas Archived 2006-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  48. ^ Jan Kochanowski Theatre
  49. ^ Jacek Malczewski Museum
  50. ^ Modern art museum
  51. ^ Skansen in Radom
  52. ^ Uniwersytet Radomski
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  57. ^ Wyższa Szkoła Ochrony Środowiska
  58. ^ Kolegium licencjackie Archived 2005-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
  59. ^ Warsaw University department in Radom
  60. ^ Uniwersytet Warszawski
  61. ^ Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej Archived 2003-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  62. ^ Wyższa Inżynierska Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa
  63. ^ Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu
  64. ^ Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Bankowości
  65. ^ Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa
  66. ^ Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne
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