Radomsko

Coordinates: 51°4′N 19°27′E / 51.067°N 19.450°E / 51.067; 19.450
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Radomsko
City Museum in the historic Ratusz
City Museum in the historic Ratusz
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
97-500
Vehicle registrationERA
Websitehttp://www.radomsko.pl

Radomsko (pronounced [raˈdɔmskɔ] ⓘ) is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021).[1] It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship. Located in the Sieradz Land, it is the county seat of Radomsko County.

History

Catholic Church of Saint Lambert of Maastricht (Kościół św Lamberta), as seen from Przedborska Street

Radomsko dates back to the 11th century.

Ladislaus the Short funded the construction of the Gothic Franciscan church.[4]

In 1382 and 1384, congresses of Polish nobility were held in Radomsko, during which Princess Jadwiga of Poland was chosen as Queen of Poland as the country's first female monarch.[5] It was probably Radomsko where an agreement was concluded under which the future king of Poland Władysław II Jagiełło married Jadwiga, hence founding the Jagiellonian dynasty.[4] Nowadays, Queen Jadwiga is considered the patron saint of Radomsko.[5] The town developed under the patronage of the Jagiellonian dynasty, and was granted important trade and tax privileges by Kings Władysław II Jagiełło in 1427 and Sigismund II Augustus in 1549 and 1552.[2]

In 1793 as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland the town became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1807 it became part of the Polish Duchy of Warsaw, then in 1815 part of Congress Poland within the Russian Empire. In 1846 the section of the Warsaw–Vienna railway that ran through the town opened, providing a railway connection to Warsaw. Inhabitants took part in the November and January uprisings against Russia.[2] One of the first battles of the Polish January Uprising in the region took place in Radomsko on January 24, 1863.[6] Further clashes between Polish insurgents and Russian troops took place in Radomsko on March 14 and June 24, 1863.[7] After the fall of the January Uprising, anti-Polish repressions, including Russification policies, intensified.[2] The Russian administration expelled Franciscan monks from the town.[4]

During World War I, the town was occupied by Austria. On 7 November 1918, local inhabitants and members of the secret Polish Military Organisation disarmed the Austrians and liberated the town, four days before Poland officially regained independence.[8] Polish political prisoners were then released.[8] The Franciscans came back to their monastery in 1918.[4]

World War II

Destruction after the German bombing of the town in 1939

On 1 September 1939, the first day of the German invasion of Poland that started World War II, the Germans air raided the town.[9] Dozens of civilians were killed in the bombings. Radomsko was taken over by the Wehrmacht on 3 September 1939.[10] The next day, the Germans carried out executions of Poles in the present-day districts of Bartodzieje, Folwarki and Stobiecko Miejskie.[2] On 6–8 September 1939, the Einsatzgruppe II entered the town, and then carried out mass arrests of Poles, and searched Polish offices and organizations.[11] Polish underground resistance was organized already in October 1939.[9] There was also secret Polish schooling.[2]

In March 1940, the Germans carried out mass arrests of 60 Poles in the town and county.

Porucznik Stanisław "Zbigniew" Sojczyński.[9] There are multiple known cases of local Poles, who were persecuted by the Germans for rescuing Jews.[17]

German execution of Poles in Radomsko in 1943

To eliminate the "Polish bandits" in the vicinity of Radomsko, some 1,000

Armia Ludowa (PAL) with 600 partisans, stood against the German force ten times larger. The losses of the enemy were estimated at approximately 100 killed and 200 wounded. The Polish losses amounted to 12 killed partisans, 11 wounded, and several missing. The battles earned Radomsko the Nazi German nickname of 'Banditenstadt', meaning 'the City of Bandits'.[2]

In 1944, during and following the

Fall of Communism
in the 1980s.

Post-war period

In April 1946, 167 partisans of the

Pilica river.[19]

The Culture Center and the Regional Museum were opened in 1967 and 1969, respectively.[19] From 1975 to 1998, Radomsko was located in the Piotrków Voivodeship. In December 1981, the communists imprisoned eight local Solidarity members.[19] The local people gathered and tried to stop the transport of the arrested activists, however, they were still interned by the communists in Sieradz and then Łowicz.[19]

Transport

Railway station

The Polish Railway line 1, which connects Warsaw and Katowice, the country's two largest metropolitan areas, runs through the town. Polish State Railways (PKP) provide Radomsko with connections with various cities throughout Poland, including Łódź, Częstochowa, Sosnowiec, Gliwice, Wrocław, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Białystok, Olsztyn and Lublin.

The town can also be reached by the Polish National road 1, the future A1 autostrada (highway), which connects the largest Polish port city of Gdańsk in the north with the Katowice urban area and the Czech Republic–Poland border at Gorzyczki in the south. The town is also located on the Polish National roads 42 and 91, and the European route E75, which connects northern Norway and Finland with Greece.

Cuisine

Tatarczuch from Radomsko, a traditional local sweet brown bread

The officially protected

zalewajka, a traditional Polish soup made of diced and boiled potatoes, sour rye (żur) made of sourdough bread, and słonina with skwarki. It differs from other types by the use of dried mushrooms and local smetana.[20] Tatarczuch is a sweet, honey-tasting brown bread made of buckwheat flour.[21]

Sports

RKS Radomsko football club was founded in 1979. It competes in the lower leagues, although in the past it played in the Poland's top division.

Municipal library
Gothic-Baroque
Exaltation of the Holy Cross church and Franciscan monastery
District Court

International relations

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

Twin towns — sister cities

Radomsko is

twinned
with:

Notable people

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 19 August 2022. Data for territorial unit 1012011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Historia - Strona Miasta Radomska". Archived from the original on 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  3. ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 4.
  4. ^ a b c d "Zespół klasztorny oo. Franciszkanów, Radomsko". Zabytek.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Patronka Miasta". Radomsko.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  6. ^ Zieliński, Stanisław (1913). Bitwy i potyczki 1863-1864. Na podstawie materyałów drukowanych i rękopiśmiennych Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu (in Polish). Rapperswil: Fundusz Wydawniczy Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu. p. 190.
  7. ^ Zieliński, pp. 193, 206
  8. ^ a b "Radomsko było niepodległe już 7 listopada 1918 roku!". Radomsko24.pl (in Polish). 11 November 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  9. ^ a b c Radomsko Museum (2012). "Historia regionu w datach - lata 1939-1945". Radomsko.pl.
  10. ^ Muzeum Regionalne w Radomsku (2016). "Areszt Miejski". Muzeum Regionalne w Radomsku.
  11. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 118.
  12. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 252
  13. ^ "Radomsko: w hołdzie ofiarom zbrodni katyńskiej". TVP3 Łódź (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  14. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 266
  15. ^ Wardzyńska, p. 266-267
  16. ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 22.
  17. ^ Rejestr faktów represji na obywatelach polskich za pomoc ludności żydowskiej w okresie II wojny światowej (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. 2014. pp. 73, 127, 177.
  18. ^ a b "Transporty z obozu Dulag 121". Muzeum Dulag 121 (in Polish). Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g "Historia regionu w datach - lata 1946-1989". Radomsko24.pl (in Polish). 24 December 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  20. ^ "Radomszczańska zalewajka". Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  21. ^ "Tatarczuch z Radomska". Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Makó külkapcsolatai – előtérben a kultúra és a gazdaságélénkítés". Mako.hu. 2005-07-11. Retrieved 2009-05-05. [dead link]
  23. ^ Fenn, Kate. "Lincoln's Twin Towns". City of Lincoln Council, City Hall, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln. Retrieved 2013-06-11.

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